30 Aug 2022 Nairobi (Kenya) Daily Nation. Supreme Court orders a recount of votes in 15 polling stations across the country as dispute over this month’s presidential election results continues;

29 Aug 2022 Tigray (Ethiopia) AFP. Local sources say fighting was reported in Kobo, Tigray region, despite urgent international appeals for a halt to the renewed hostilities between government forces and Tigrayan rebels;

29 Aug 2022 Nairobi (Kenya) Daily Nation. Opposition leader Raila Odinga says he believes he won the presidential election but will respect the Supreme Court’s ruling;

29 Aug 2022 Nairobi (Kenya) Business Insider Africa. Kenyan High Court freezes an additional sum of $3.3m belonging to the pan-African fintech giant Flutterwave over allegations of fraud and money laundering;

29 Aug 2022 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The EastAfrican. Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi warns anti-graft agency against complacency, after receiving the Auditor-General report for the 2022/2021 audit which reveals that 4.6 billion Tanzanian shillings ($1.97m) was not accounted for by various government entities;

28 Aug 2022 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The EastAfrican. East African Community council says Tanzanian companies can now import, at 0% for a year, raw materials, and inputs for the manufacture of wire products;

27 Aug 2022 Djibouti (Djibouti) Xinhua. Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway starts vehicle shipment from ports in Djibouti to Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa;

26 Aug 2022 Mekele (Ethiopia) Reuters. Health official says seven people have been killed in a federal government air strike on Tigray‘s capital Mekele, as the government denies rebel claims that it targeted civilians in the rebel-held region;

25 Aug 2022 Nairobi (Kenya) IFC. State-owned National Housing Corporation and the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank‘s private sector lending arm, sign a financial advisory services agreement to boost the supply of affordable housing units in Kenya;

24 Aug 2022 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) AFP. Fighting erupts between government forces and Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia, shattering a five-month truce and dealing a blow to peace efforts;

24 Aug 2022 Kampala (Uganda) The Observer. Uganda Free Zones Authority director Rebecca Nalumu says provisional data indicates that Uganda’s export earnings from free trade zones dropped to $78m in the financial year 2021/22 due to a government levy on gold exports.