27 Nov 2024 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Daily News. Polls open today in Tanzania for the local government elections, which the ruling CCM expects to win;

26 Nov 2024 Djibouti (Djibouti) Saudi Press Agency. Djibouti and Saudi Arabia sign an agreement to encourage and protect mutual investments, enhancing economic cooperation;

26 Nov 2024 Kinshasa (DRC) RFI. Angola’s foreign ministry says the foreign ministers from DRC and Rwanda have approved a concept of operations, a strategy under which Rwandan soldiers will disengage from DRC;

26 Nov 2024 Asmara (Eritrea) The Peninsula. President Isaias Afwerki meets with Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council chairman, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan, to discuss enhancing bilateral relations;

26 Nov 2024 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) CNBC. Ethiopia’s parliament has approved ETB 581.98 billion ($4.8 billion) in additional spending for the 2024/25 fiscal year, marking a 21% increase on last year;

26 Nov 2024 Nairobi (Kenya) France24. Kenya and Mayotte sign a trade deal to bolster economic ties and simplify trade;

26 Nov 2024 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. A delegation of 40 business investors from Belgium is in Tanzania to explore investment opportunities in agriculture, livestock, fisheries and industrial sectors;

25 Nov 2024 Djibouti (Djibouti) VOA. The annual Horn of Africa forum opens in Djibouti to discuss strengthening regional stability;

25 Nov 2024 Kigali (Rwanda) CNBC Africa. National Bank of Rwanda (central bank) revises its inflation projections for 2025 upwards to 5.8% in 2025 due to food inflation;

25 Nov 2024 Kampala (Uganda) VOA Africa. Supporters of opposition leader Kizza Besigye will march to Kenya’s embassy in Uganda today to protest what they call gross violations of human rights by the Ugandan and Kenyan governments following Besigye’s arrest in Kenya;

24 Nov 2024 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Daily News. Ruling party CCM’s secretary for ideology, publicity and training, Amoss Makalla, has expressed confidence in a landslide victory in local government elections scheduled for 27 November, citing the public’s trust in the party;

23 Nov 2024 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Africanews.  Main opposition party Chadema leader Freeman Mbowe has been released on bail after being arrested yesterday, reportedly linked to a gathering ahead of the 27 November local government elections;

23 Nov 2024 Kampala (Uganda) AFP. Government spokesperson Chris Baryomunsi says the arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye was carried out in Kenya with the knowledge of Kenya’s government;

21 Nov 2024 Kinshasa (DRC) Mining.com. President Félix Tshisekedi inaugurates the Kipushi zinc mine, built as a joint venture between state-owned Gécamines and Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines;

21 Nov 2024 Ahmara (Ethiopia) The New Humanitarian. Eritrean and Sudanese refugees demand to be relocated from unsafe camps in Ahmara region;

21 Nov 2024 Nairobi (Kenya) Business Day. President William Ruto orders the cancellation of procurement processes that were expected to award control of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to India’s Adani Group after Gautam Adani was indicted on charges of bribery in the United States (US);

21 Nov 2024 Kigali (Rwanda) CNBC Africa. National Bank of Rwanda (central bank) maintains its monetary policy rate at 6.5%;

21 Nov 2024 Dar es Salaam (Tanzanian) Globe News Wire. Canada-headquartered Montero Mining announces that it has reached a $27m settlement with Tanzania in the dispute arising out of the expropriation of Montero’s Wigu Hill rare earth element project;

21 Nov 2024 Kampala (Uganda) Reuters. Kenya says it is investigating how Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was allegedly kidnapped in Kenya last week before re-appearing in a Ugandan military court on Wednesday;

20 Nov 2024 Djibouti (Djibouti) Libya Observer. Prime minister Abdulkader Kamil Mohamed sends a letter to Libya’s prime minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, regarding enhancing cooperation and bilateral relations;

20 Nov 2024 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Mining Review Africa. Norway-headquartered Akobo Minerals and Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, inaugurate the Segele gold mine in Gambella Region;
20 Nov 2024 Nairobi (Kenya) Reuters. Finance ministry’s head of debt management Raphael Owino says Kenya has secured a $200m loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and is in talks for a $750m loan from the World Bank;

20 Nov 2024 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) IPP Media. Addressing the G20 Leaders Summit in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) yesterday, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, appeals to the G20 to transfer special drawing rights (SDRs) at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to African financial institutions such as the African Development Bank (AfDB);

20 Nov 2024 Kampala (Uganda) Jeune Afrique. Opposition leader Kizza Besigye appears before a martial court in Kampala after reportedly being kidnapped in Kenya, accused of threatening national security and being in possession of two guns;