The Explainer 8th April 2025

19 Apr 2025 - Rwanda has agreed to allow troops deployed by the Southern Africa bloc to fight rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to evacuate from the rebel-held city of Goma through its territory to Tanzania, three diplomatic sources said on Friday.

19 Apr 2025 - Gold, which traders have been flying to New York since December as a precaution against the possibility of broad U.S. tariffs hitting bullion imports, is being shipped back to Switzerland, where it came from, official data shows.

19 Apr 2025 - US President Donald Trump has been pressing Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a truce, but has failed to extract any major concessions from the Kremlin, despite repeated negotiations between his administration and Russia on the three-year war.

19 Apr 2025 - Gunmen have killed 17 people in Nigeria’s central state of Benue, police said Friday, the latest flare-up of intercommunal violence to hit the region in recent weeks. Police spokeswoman Anene Sewuese Catherine said in a statement that they had received…

19 Apr 2025 - Banks and gas stations that had gone on strike in Mali called off their action on Friday after reaching an agreement with the junta, the union and the government said. The National Union of Banks, Insurance Companies, Financial Institutions, Retailers,…

19 Apr 2025 - Tanzania’s main opposition party said on Friday it could not establish the whereabouts of its leader, Tundu Lissu, after he was moved from a jail where he was being held following his arrest on treason charges last week. Senior CHADEMA party officials,…

19 Apr 2025 - The former deputy governor who once pocketed thousands of shillings now barely makes Ksh200 a day.

19 Apr 2025 - Former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has lined up a series of meetings with political and Church leaders as he embarks on his bid for the presidency in 2027. The former powerful CS in the President Uhuru Kenyatta government has reportedly…

19 Apr 2025 - Gor Mahia captain Philemon Otieno has revealed their desire to win each and every game in the Football Kenya Federation Premier League. K’Ogalo are set to face Sofapaka on Saturday, April 19, 2025, and Otieno says the mood in the camp is positive.…

19 Apr 2025 - At least 143 people died and dozens more went missing after a boat carrying fuel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Friday. Hundreds of passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest…