[allAfrica] Tanzania Opposition Leader Lissu Charged With Treason

[allAfrica] Trump Announces 90-Day Tariff Pause for Most Countries

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[allAfrica] Cape Town -- US President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day «pause» of trade tariffs for all countries except China. Trump shared the decision via social media, saying more than 75 countries made contact with the U.S. administration to «negotiate a solution».

[Leadership] Nigeria has officially expressed its interest to bid for the 2030 Commonwealth Games, with Abuja poised to be the host city.

[TrustAfrica] Accra, Ghana - The African Social Movements Baraza 2025 is set to take place from Monday, 14th to Wednesday, 16th April 2025. This gathering will bring together social movements, grassroots activists, civil society organization leaders, creatives, academics, policymakers and passionate change-makers from across the continent to define and strategize on pressing social issues impacting Africans.

[allAfrica] Leading Sudanese and international voices will convene tomorrow to brief the press on the urgent need for greater African engagement in resolving the devastating conflict in Sudan, which approaches its second anniversary on April 15.

[Liberian Observer] Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sara Beysolow Nyanti, met with the President of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Deby, on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at the Presidential Palace in N'Djamena, Chad. The meeting underscored the growing diplomatic ties between the two nations and their shared commitment to fostering greater collaboration in various sectors.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Eskom Implements Stage 2 Loadshedding

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A majority of Kenyans are open to an increase in taxes to enable adequate healthcare access for all.

[New Zimbabwe] The City of Harare (CoH) has identified a total number of 5 490 housing units to be fumigated in Mbare, where there is a bed bug (tsikidzi) outbreak.

[RFI] Tensions between Algeria and its southern neighbours have flared once again after the downing of a Turkish-made military drone near the Mali border, underscoring the ongoing instability in the Sahel.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The formula used by the Trump administration to calculate the tariffs the United States is imposing on countries across the globe is being widely criticised by trade specialists.

[allAfrica] Cyberbullies often justify their actions as an «inevitable» within online spaces while shifting blame onto their victims, reveals a new report by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC). The report, titled Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence on Social Media, analyzed common understandings of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) on X (formerly Twitter) between February 1, 2024, and February 28, 2025.

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[The Conversation Africa] The world has to feed a growing population with the same area of land and less water. Irrigation is key to managing this problem. A 10-year project called Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa focused on capacity constraints on schemes in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and how to solve them. This led to a new project which uses small-scale irrigation schemes as learning sites for circular food systems. Here, the researchers involved in the projects share some findings.

[Dabanga] Amsterdam -- On April 7, the world comes together to observe World Health Day, an annual initiative led by the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) to spotlight critical health issues. This year's theme focuses on maternal and infant health, underscoring the importance of proper medical care, nutrition, and support during pregnancy and early childhood. However, in Sudan, a country ravaged by conflict, the reality is starkly different. Millions of mothers and babies are caught in a deepening humanitarian crisis,

[The Conversation Africa] By the end of 2025, 42 African countries will have held national elections in the previous 24 months. But do these elections produce parliaments that accurately reflect the societies they serve? Aside from studies of women in Africa's legislatures, there is surprisingly little information about this important issue.

[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has launched a full-scale investigation into the recent power outage at Roberts International Airport (RIA), ordering immediate corrective measures and long-term solutions to safeguard Liberia's main international gateway from future blackouts.

[WHO] Geneva -- Over the past two days, WHO convened more than 15 countries and over 20 regional health agencies, health emergency networks and other partners to test, for the first time, a new global coordination mechanism for health emergencies.

[HRW] Dozens Set Free but Ex-President Bazoum, Others Remain Wrongfully Imprisoned

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[allAfrica] The country that President Donald Trump declared «nobody's ever heard of» during his 4 March address to Congress has been hit with the highest U.S. tariffs in the world. Lesotho tops the list of 20 African nations upon which the White House has announced what it calls «reciprocal» tariffs, which add to the baseline imposed on every country.

[allAfrica] Trump's Tariffs Impact 185 Countries, Disrupting Global Trade

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[allAfrica] Nigerian pastor Timothy Omotoso and his co-accused Lusanda Sulani and Zukiswa Sitho have been found not guilty on all charges. The verdict comes eight years after the accused were arrested - Omotoso was in custody for the duration of the trial, while Sulani and Sitho were out on bail.

[allAfrica] Justice Demanded for 16 Nigerian Travellers Killed by Vigilantes

[allAfrica] Women and girls will suffer devastating consequences from the USAID funding freeze

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[allAfrica] Beijing -- The global south must broaden and explore new pathways to development that are not simply about accessing more capital but also ensuring sustainable, inclusive growth, a top Sierra Leone development official says.

[Premium Times] «We need more data sharing and better collaborations to make sure we don't just solve the problem but we stop the problem from happening.»

[spotlight] There is no shortage of myths about the cancellation of US foreign assistance. This includes the widely held misconception that PEPFAR is exempt from US aid cuts and the belief that grant terminations are just taking place in South Africa. Many of these falsehoods have been reinforced by US and South African officials. Spotlight and GroundUp dissect some of the most popular misconceptions.

[allAfrica] Monrovia -- Senior officials of the Africa Centers for Disease Control are holding meetings in the U.S capital, Washington D.C., to discuss future collaboration between the U.S. government and the continental health body, in light of funding cuts by the administration of President Donald Trump.

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