21 Mar 2023 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Borkena. Government refutes the allegation by United States secretary of state Antony Blinken concerning the war crimes and crimes against humanity in the northern part of Ethiopia;

21 Mar 2023 Nairobi (Kenya) Mongabay. The carbon offset certifier Verra initiates a “quality control review” of the Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project, which claims to store carbon by managing indigenous livestock grazing routes;

21 Mar 2023 Nairobi (Kenya) Africanews. A group of 43 Facebook moderators fired in January announce they are filing a lawsuit in Kenya against the social network’s parent company Meta for, among other things, unlawful dismissal;

21 Mar 2023 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. President Samia Suluhu Hassan addresses the public and promises that her administration would review laws and regulations governing investment to make Tanzania more attractive to investors;

20 Mar 2023 Asmara (Eritrea) Africanews. United States secretary of state Antony Blinken determines that Ethiopian and Eritrean armed forces, as well as Tigrayan rebels, committed war crimes during the two-year bloody conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region;

20 Mar 2023 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Borkena. Government says it needs $20 billion for the coming five years to recover from the civil war war that ended in November 2022 following the Pretoria Peace Agreement;

20 Mar 2023 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. Tanzanians in the diaspora meet in Sweden to discuss key issues including ways to promote Tanzanian culture, tourism, ecology, and cuisine as well as critical concerns affecting the diaspora;

18 Mar 2023 Kigali (Rwanda) Al Jazeera. United Kingdom’s interior minister, Suella Braverman, arrives in Rwanda to discuss an agreement in which the UK will relocate undocumented refugees and migrants to Rwanda as she doubles down on a plan that has been mired in legal challenges and controversy;

17 Mar 2023 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. Tanzania and India agree on an arrangement that will allow Tanzania and India to use their own currencies (the shilling and rupee) in transactions, rather than the United States dollar;

16 Mar 2023 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Borkena. State-owned Ethiopian Airlines announces it has launched weekly cargo flights to Copenhagen (Denmark);

16 Mar 2023 Kigali (Rwanda) Al Jazeera. Rwandan Defence Force says its troops briefly exchanged fire with soldiers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo at a border post, as tension continues to spike between the neighbours;

16 Mar 2023 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. Mining company Uranex’s country director Peter Tsegas looks at the potential value to Tanzania of the agreement signed with United States-based electric vehicle company Tesla to supply materials for manufacturing batteries;

16 Mar 2023 Kampala (Uganda) Al Jazeera. Uganda’s leader’s son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, says he intends to stand for the presidency in 2026, the first time the outspoken army general has given a timeline for replacing his father, who has ruled Uganda since 1986;

15 Mar 2023 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Independent. United States secretary of state Antony Blinken is in Ethiopia to meet with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and others about the recovery from the two-year conflict in the Tigray region;

20 Mar 2023 Kampala (Uganda) AllAfrica. Aida Vumilia, lead researcher on agro-industry projects at the Uganda Development Corporation says cocoa has potential to become a big business with proper investmetn but that on average, farmers are paid just 3,000 shillings (81 cents) a kilogram for wet beans, a practice that keeps cocoa farmers in a cycle of poverty;

16 Mar 2023 Kampala (Uganda) Al Jazeera. Uganda’s leader’s son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, says he intends to stand for the presidency in 2026, the first time the outspoken army general has given a timeline for replacing his father, who has ruled Uganda since 1986;