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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto is set to embark on a five-day working tour of Central Kenya from Tuesday to Saturday.

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[Nile Post] National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, marked Eid al-Fitr by distributing food and essential supplies to vulnerable workers in Kampala, including street cleaners and road sweepers.

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[New Zimbabwe] HOME Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has reiterated calls for Zimbabweans to desist from participating in planned countrywide protests, saying acts of 'terrorism' will be met with brute force.

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[New Zimbabwe] A WAVE of politically motivated violence rocked in Zvimba West constituency Friday night as unknown assailants targeted the homes of two Zanu PF officials, smashing all their windows.

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[New Zimbabwe] A MARRIED couple has been extradited from South Africa back to Zimbabwe to face justice for allegedly killing their four-year-old niece in 2023 before skipping the border.

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[New Zimbabwe] After sustaining a barrage of threats from combative war veteran Blessed 'Bombshell' Runesu Geza and his acolytes, Zanu PF-linked tenderprenuer Wicknell Chivayo has jumped to shield President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the planned nationwide protests.

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[IPS] New Delhi -- "The size of the faucet highlights the magnitude of the problem. It makes the problem impossible to ignore. We're used to throwing things 'away'--but when we're confronted with what happens when 'away' is not an option, I think it creates an emotional wake-up call," says Benjamin Von Wong.

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[Global Press Journal] Harare, Zimbabwe -- Sure, the pills may be expired -- or fake. But customers flock to the illicit market anyway, saying they have no other choice.

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[African Arguments] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name.

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[Dabanga] Khartoum / Jebel Aulia / Port Sudan -- The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) says yesterday they cleared the last remaining pockets of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum and freed dozens of prisoners from RSF-run detention centres in Jebel Aulia as well as controlling the reservoir, south of the capital.

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[Afrobarometer] Ugandan women continue to face barriers in public and private spheres

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[UN News] The UN Secretary-General on Saturday strongly condemned an attack on peacekeepers serving with UN mission MINUSCA in the Central African Republic which left one Kenyan 'blue helmet' dead.

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[UN News] Countries should consider looking beyond Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, as the key measure of economic growth to achieve the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN policymakers have suggested.

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[Dabanga] As the Sudanese Armed Forces have slowly regained control over much of Khartoum over the past days, reports are confirming that at least 90 per cent of media, including TV, radio, and neswpaper facilities have been completely destroyed during the hostilities, while looters have stripped any usable equipment and assets in the city that has always been Sudan's main media hub.

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[Dabanga] Port Sudan -- The President of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Lt Gen General Abdelfattah El Burhan, has stated that "there will be no negotiations or compromise with those who violated the sanctity of the Sudanese people". He affirmed that "the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their supporting forces will continue their battle to eliminate the rebellion and defeat the terrorist [Rapid Support Forces (RSF)] militia."

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[The Conversation Africa] Nigerian women make up a significant proportion of foreign women giving birth in several countries.

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[The Conversation Africa] The first budget speech of Ghana's new government on 11 March painted a picture of an economy in crisis, facing high debt and fiscal mismanagement. The finance minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, acknowledged that key International Monetary Fund performance targets would be missed and announced drastic spending cuts.

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[The Conversation Africa] A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians from the Middle East in around 800 BCE. It reveals a much richer and more complex history than previously thought.

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[The Conversation Africa] Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from haramata, a word in the Ghanaian language Fanti.

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[Afrobarometer] Opposition party supporters and Kampala residents are less likely to say they feel free to speak, associate, and vote.

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[Afrobarometer] Little-known National Health Insurance Scheme has strong public support among those who have heard of it.