3 Sep 2024 Kinshasa (DRC) Al Jazeera. Interior minister Shabani Lukoo confirms 129 people died in an attempted escape from Makala prison in Kinshasa, the country’s largest prison;

3 Sep 2024 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Borkena. Ethiopian Airlines’ suspension of flights to Eritrea officially takes effect;

3 Sep 2024 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. President Samia Suluhu Hassan commences an official visit to China to attend the Forum of China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) from 4 to 6 September;

3 Sep 2024 Kampala (Uganda) Al Jazeera. Opposition National Unity Platform says police shot its leader, Robert Kyagulanyi (also known as Bobi Wine), in the leg after an altercation with police who attempted to bar him and his team from marching down a road;

2 Sep 2024 Djibouti (Djibouti) CGTN. President Ismail Omar Guelleh arrives in China for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC);

2 Sep 2024 Kinshasa (DRC) Reuters. Government confirms an attempted prison break took place overnight at the Makala prison in Kinshasa but says security forces have the situation under control;

2 Sep 2024 Asmara (Eritrea) CGTN. President Isaias Afwerki meets with China’s President Xi Jinping who says China is ready to deepen cooperation in energy, infrastructure, agriculture and other fields and assist Eritrea’s industrialisation and agricultural modernisation process;

2 Sep 2024 Kigali (Rwanda) Vyorstka. Investigative media outlet Vyorstka reports Russia imported more than $29m in United States dollar and Euro banknotes from Rwanda this year despite Western sanctions on cash imports;

31 Aug 2024 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) VOA. Djibouti’s foreign minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, says Djibouti has a proposal that could solve the dispute between Somalia and Ethiopia in which Djibouti has offered Ethiopia access to its port of Tadjoura;

31 Aug 2024 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. Deputy energy minister Judith Kapinga tells parliament that the cost of electricity in Tanzania is cheaper compared to the rest of East Africa due to government’s subsidy on the costs incurred by customers;

31 Aug 2024 Kigali (Rwanda) Anadolu Agency. President Paul Kagame approves the retirement of 1,000 soldiers, including five generals;

30 Aug 2024 Bujumbura (Burundi) AFP. Civil society group Forum pour la Conscience et le Développement (FOCODE) says there has been an “alarming” resurgence in enforced disappearances in Burundi, adding there have been 25 cases of enforced disappearance between January and June alone;

30 Aug 2024 Nairobi (Kenya) IPP Media. Tanzania’s deputy prime minister and minister of energy, Doto Biteko, at the second United States-Africa nuclear energy high-level conference held in Nairobi, outlines Tanzania’s plans and readiness to develop nuclear energy as an alternative source of electricity for economic growth and social well-being;

30 Aug 2024 Kampala (Uganda) Anadolu Agency. Deputy chief of land forces Major General Francis Takirwa expresses Uganda’s readiness to strengthen military relations with Turkey;

29 Aug 2024 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Africa Report. United States (US) announces plans to expand the Lobito railway project, which connects Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Angola’s port of Lobito on the Atlantic Ocean, to the Indian Ocean via Tanzania;