5 Feb 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) IPP Media. A delegation of Angolan investors arrive in Tanzania to explore potential partnerships and investment opportunities;

5 Feb 2025 Kampala (Uganda) Bloomberg. Police detain nine finance ministry officials as part of a probe into a hacking of the Bank of Uganda (central bank), during which Ush 62 billion ($16.93m) was stolen;

4 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Al Jazeera. Rwanda-backed M23 rebels announce a brief pause in their advances across DRC to allow humanitarian aid and civilian dispersal in the area to occur; however, the DRC military has not commented on whether they will respect the ceasefire;

4 Feb 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Business Recorder. Partial collapse of gold mine in Western Kenya traps 12 miners;

4 Feb 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Addis Standard. The National Police Service launches a security operation in Marsabit and Isiolo counties targeting hideouts allegedly used by Ethiopian armed opposition group, the Oromo Liberation Army;

4 Feb 2025 Kampala (Uganda) Channel Africa. Uganda sends a further 1,000 troops to eastern DRC to support President Felix Tshisekedi, bringing the total number of Ugandan troops to between 4,000 and 5,000;

3 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Business Insider. President Félix Tshisekedi and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will attend the regional summit in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in the second week of February to discuss the escalating situation in eastern DRC;

3 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Business Insider. President Paul Kagame denies any knowledge of Rwandan troops operating in eastern DRC despite United Nations (UN) estimates of 3,000-4000 troops in the region where escalating clashes with M23 have led to over 900 deaths;

3 Feb 2025 Asmara (Eritrea) Swiss Info. Switzerland confirms it will end development aid to Eritrea, citing that little progress has been made with Eritrea on migration issues, namely Switzerland’s request to return rejected asylum seekers to Eritrea;

2 Feb 2025 Djibouti (Djibouti) Daily News Egypt. Foreign affairs minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf meets with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to discuss bilateral relations, a potential link between their ports and stability in Somalia;

2 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Al Jazeera. Government spokesman Patrick Muyaya says provisional figures indicate at least 773 people were killed in clashes with the M23 rebels in Goma (North Kivu Province);

2 Feb 2025 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) APA News. Sources report a drone attack on 30 January in Afar Region, near the Ethiopia-Djibouti border, killed at least eight people and injured several others, with residents alleging the Djiboutian government carried out the attack;

2 Feb 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The Citizen. Tanzanian People’s Defense Force (TPDF) confirms that two Tanzanian soldiers were killed during clashes between M23 rebels in Sake and Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC);

1 Feb 2025 Bujumbura (Burundi) eNCA. President Evariste Ndayishimiye addresses regional tensions and the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), warning that it could escalate into a broader regional war;

1 Feb 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) The East African. Tourism minister Pindi Chana says Tanzania welcomed 5.36 million tourists in 2024, ahead of its target of five million by 2025;

1 Feb 2025 Kampala (Uganda) VOA. Supreme court rules that trying civilians in General Court Martial and military courts is unconstitutional, a ruling that President Yoweri Museveni calls wrong;

31 Jan 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Bloomberg. Kenya National Bureau of Statistics reports annual inflation rose from 3% in December to 3.3% in January;

30 Jan 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Weekly Times. President Felix Tshisekedi announces a vigorous military response against the Rwandan-backed M23 fighters following their capture of Goma;

30 Jan 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Pindula. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa warns Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame that attacks on South African troops in DRC will be a declaration of war;

30 Jan 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Taarifa. East African Community (EAC) heads of state call for President Felix Tshisekedi to engage in dialogue with his armed opponents to resolve the ongoing crisis and call for an urgent summit with the Southern African Development Community (SADC);

30 Jan 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Tanzania times. East African Community (EAC) heads of state convene for extra-ordinary summit meeting and call upon the DRC to protect foreign embassies from ongoing attacks;

30 Jan 2025 Dodoma (Tanzania) Mining.com. Tanzania signs a $2.15 billion deal with China-based China Railway Engineering Group Ltd and China Railway Engineering Design and Consulting Group Co to construct a railway linking the port of Dar es Salaam to a nickel mine in Burundi;

30 Jan 2025 Kampala (Uganda) Business Day. Health ministry confirms a patient has died of Ebola as the country records its ninth outbreak since 2000;

29 Jan 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) All Africa. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa expresses deep sorrow following the loss of 13 South African soldiers in DRC as fighting intensifies with M23 rebels and the Rwanda Defence Force;

29 Jan 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) The East African. Foreign affairs minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner states that the government regrets vandalism of embassies and says it is taking all practical measures to guarantee the protection of diplomatic missions following the capture by M23 and the Rwanda Defence Force of Goma;

29 Jan 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) MSN. Clashes between the M23, the Rwanda Defence Force and the DRC army in North Kivu province have displaced more than 500,000 people;

29 Jan 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) MSN. Clashes between the DRC army, M23 and the Rwanda Defence Force leave over 100 dead and 1,000 wounded as the forces move to seize Goma, capital of mineral-rich North Kivu province;

29 Jan 2025 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) 2 Merkato. Ethio-Engineering Group (EEG) aims to partner with technology providers to utilise the country’s vast lithium supply and move to produce electric vehicles for public transport;