25 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) AP News. World Health Organisation (WHO) announces 50 deaths from an unknown illness in northwest Congo;

25 Feb 2025 Kigali (Rwanda) AP News. United Kingdom (UK) says it will pause some bilateral aid to Rwanda and impose other diplomatic sanctions over Rwanda’s role in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC);

25 Feb 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) AP News. Interior minister Kipchumba Murkomen announces government collaboration with Ethiopia to recover 20 people reportedly missing following clashes at their border;

24 Feb 2025 Kampala (Uganda) Reuters. The agriculture ministry says Uganda, Africa’s largest exporter of coffee, has seen the value of its coffee exports surge 83.4% in January, compared to the same month a year ago, boosted by high global prices of the commodity;

24 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Financial Times. Government announces cobalt exports are to be stopped in an attempt to reduce the overabundance of supply and halt the price of the mineral falling;

24 Feb 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Bloomberg. Kenya plans to sell new dollar bonds to finance the repurchase of $900m Eurobonds due in 2027;

24 Feb 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Bloomberg. State carrier Kenya Airways plans to acquire bigger cargo aircraft as intra-African trade expands and exports from the region bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic slump;

22 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Reuters. Prime minister Judith Suminwa tells a high-level meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva (Switzerland) that some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern DRC;

22 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) DW. Presidency spokesperson Tina Salama says President Felix Tshisekedi will launch a unity government, as he faces domestic pressure over his handling of an offensive by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern provinces;

21 Feb 2025 Bujumbura (Burundi) Reuters. The United Nations (UN) says that Burundi is facing a rapidly worsening humanitarian situation as more than 40,000 people have fled there in two weeks to escape fighting in eastern DRC;

21 Feb 2025 Kampala (Uganda) SABC. A magistrates’ court charges detained opposition politician Kizza Besigye with treason, rejecting his lawyer’s pleas that he be transferred to hospital to help him recover from ill health stemming from a hunger strike;

21 Feb 2025 Kampala (Uganda) MSN. President Yoweri Museveni dismisses Qatar-based Al-Jazeera‘s claims that Uganda deployed troops in Bunia to support the DRC against M23 rebels, clarifying that the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF)‘s presence is solely to combat the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which have been wreaking havoc in both Uganda and the DRC;

21 Feb 2025 Kigali (Rwanda) Bloomberg. Ahead of a key meeting of European foreign ministers next week, the Belgiangovernment says a growing international consensus is emerging in favour of sanctions against Rwanda’s government over its role in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC);

21 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Reuters. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) calls on Rwanda‘s military to stop supporting the M23 rebel group in eastern DRC and immediately withdraw all troops from Congolese territory “without preconditions”;

21 Feb 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Bloomberg. Kenya expects to receive a $1.5 billion loan from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by the end of next week;

20 Feb 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Daily Maverick. Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) says it is investigating evidence of a $28m tax discrepancy related to British American Tobacco Kenya’s declared profits between 2017 and 2018;

20 Feb 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Bloomberg. Kenya expects earnings from tourism, one of its main sources of foreign currency, will surge 24% to 560 billion shillings ($4.33 billion) this year;

20 Feb 2025 Kigali (Rwanda) US Department of State. United States (US) sanctions regional integration minister of state, James Kabarebe, and M23’s spokesperson, Lawrence Kanyuka Kingston, alongside two of Kanyuka’s companies, United Kingdom-based Kingston Fresh and France-based Kingston Holding, for links to violence and human rights abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC);