25 Mar 2025 Bujumbura (Burundi) BBC. President Évariste Ndayishimiye says in an interview with United Kingdom-based media corporation BBC that he has seen “credible intelligence” that Rwanda is planning to attack Burundi;

25 Mar 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Al Jazeera. Renewed fighting between M23 and pro-government Wazalendo fighters in North and South Kivu provinces breaks out a day after the East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) hold a summit to address the failing ceasefire in eastern DRC;

25 Mar 2025 Amhara (Ethiopia) Addis Standard. Residents report a rising number of civilian casualties as fighting between government forces and Fano militia in Central Gondar and North Gojjam zones continues;

25 Mar 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Reuters. National carrier Kenya Airways says it made a pretax profit in 2023 of KSh 5.53 billion ($42.82m) after recording pretax losses since 2013;

25 Mar 2025 Kigali (Rwanda) AFP. Foreign minister Olivier Nduhungirehe describes Burundi’s President Évariste Ndayishimiye’s report that Rwanda plans to attack Burundi as “unfortunate”;

25 Mar 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. Bank of Tanzania (central bank) governor Emmanuel Tutuba rejects recent reports in international media that the Tanzanian shilling is the worst performing currency in 2025;

25 Mar 2025 Kampala (Uganda) Business Day. South Sudan’s first vice president, Riek Machar, accuses Uganda of violating a United Nations (UN) arms embargo by entering South Sudan with armoured and air force units and conducting air strikes;

24 Mar 2025 Bujumbura (Burundi) Africanews. World Food Programme (WFP) says the increase in refugees from Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has placed significant strain on WFP food assistance programmes in Burundi;

24 Mar 2025 Walikale (DRC) Daily Maverick. The de facto ceasefire between DRC and M23 rebels seemingly breaks down as M23 reneges on its pledge to withdraw from Walikale;

24 Mar 2025 Asmara (Eritrea) Anadolu Agency. Azerbaijan announces the return of 18 citizens after Azerbaijani-flagged vessels and their crew were detained by Eritrea upon entering its territorial waters in November 2024;

24 Mar 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) CNBC Africa. Finance minister John Mbadi confirms Kenya has applied for a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme that could make use of the approximately $800m that has been unused from its current programme;

23 Mar 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) RFI. M23 rebels confirm they will withdraw from Walikale (North Kivu Province) in support of peace efforts;

23 Mar 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) BBC. Garissa county commissioner Mohamed Mwabudzo confirms that six police officers were killed near the border with Somalia, stating that the attack followed the style of al-Shabab;

22 Mar 2025 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) RFI. Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) says it has killed more than 300 Fano militiamen in two days of fighting in Amhara Region;

20 Mar 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Al Jazeera. M23 rebels capture mining hub Walikale (North Kivu Province), a day after President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, met in Qatar to call for a ceasefire;

20 Mar 2025 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Reuters. Prime minister Abiy Ahmed says Ethiopia will not seek conflict with Eritrea over access to the Red Sea;

20 Mar 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Engineering News. Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority managing director Bruno Ching’andu says China Civil Engineering Construction Corp (CCECC) will invest more than $1.4 billion to revitalise the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (TAZARA);

20 Mar 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. Egypt’s foreign affairs minister, Badr Abdelatty, during a two-day official visit unveils plans to expand Egyptian investment in Tanzania;

20 Mar 2025 Kampala (Uganda) Reuters. Parliament approves a government request to borrow $190m from Stanbic Bank to compensate the country’s largest electricity distributor, Umeme Limited, for unrecovered investments after its concession expires;