11 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) Business Day. M23 rebels threaten again to advance on South Kivu’s provincial capital Bukavu, as an attack near Ihusi village is reported, 70km from Bukavu;

11 Feb 2025 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Reuters. Energy minister Doto Biteko says Tanzania is discussing tax incentives with investors in its stalled $42 billion LNG project;

11 Feb 2025 Kampala (Uganda) Business Day.  Energy and mineral development ministry spokesperson Patricia Litho says Uganda will not begin oil production this year, missing a long-standing target to begin extracting crude from its western fields this year;

10 Feb 2025 Kampala (Uganda) Reuters. President Yoweri Museveni‘s spokesperson names Michael Atingi-Ego as Bank of Uganda (central bank) governor;

9 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) New Vision. Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC) convene at emergency summit calling for immediate and unconditional ceasefire within five days, with President Félix Tshisekedi and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame attending virtually;

7 Feb 2025 Bujumbura (Burundi) AFP. Burundi has reportedly sent additional soldiers to support the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) against the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels;

7 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) New Vision. United Nations (UN) chief Volker Turk warns violence may still escalate if the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC) summit is not successful, while reporting nearly 3,000 deaths and 2,880 injuries since the M23 rebels entered Goma;

7 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) The East African. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC) are set to meet today to discuss the conflict in eastern DRC;

7 Feb 2025 Kigali (Rwanda) The Guardian. Intelligence, military and diplomatic sources report that a significant number of Rwandan Defence Force (RDF) soldiers have died in covert operations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) despite Rwanda denying that its soldiers are not supporting M23 rebels in eastern DRC;

7 Feb 2025 Kigali (Rwanda) AP. United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council condemns Rwanda’s involvement in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ordering a team of experts to investigate human rights violations in the region;

6 Feb 2025 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Addis Standard. Ethiopian Civil Society Organizations Council calls on the government to pursue diplomatic solutions to avoid civil society job losses following the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) pause in financial aid;

6 Feb 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) VOA. Two hundred Kenyan police officers arrive in Haiti to join the 600 Kenyan police officers already part of the United Nations-backed Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS);

5 Feb 2025 Kinshasa (DRC) France24. Government says M23’s unilateral humanitarian ceasefire, which came into effect on Tuesday, was just a ‘ploy’ after M23 launched another offensive early Wednesday morning;

5 Feb 2025 Nairobi (Kenya) Reuters. Finance minister John Mbadi says the government is in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to secure a new lending programme after its current Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) expire in April;