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[SADC] Statistical experts from 15 SADC Member States region gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa from 10-14 March 2025, for an intensive Regional Workshop on Sampling Methodologies for Household Surveys. Facilitated by the SADC Regional Statistics Project with funding from the World Bank, the workshop is a critical step in strengthening the quality of household survey data that informs decision-making across our region.

[ISS] Despite scepticism about the government's intentions, the meeting shows a shift in President Chapo's hardline approach to resolving post-election violence.

[allAfrica] "What's transpired is unthinkable. We will always be Sentebale's founders, but this situation is beyond repair."

[New Era] Lahja Nashuuta

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) of Haiti has confirmed the death of a Kenyan officer reported as 'unaccounted for' by the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti following an ambush in Savien, near Pont-Sondé, in Haiti's lower Artibonite department.

[Capital FM] NAIROBI -- ODM leader Raila Odinga and People's Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua have publicly disagreed over the nature of the broad-based government arrangement with President William Ruto.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The first chief of the General Staff of the now defunct FAPLA, general João Luís Neto "Xietu", died Wednesday in Luanda of an illness, aged 81.

[Ghanaian Times] Ghana performed creditably in areas such as labour, utility services and business insolvency in 2024, the latest World Bank Group Business Ready Report 2024 has revealed.

[The Herald] Zanu PF will convene a Central Committee meeting this morning to deliberate on key issues affecting both the party and national development.

[Liberian Observer] In a tense and revealing hearing before the full bench of the Supreme Court of Liberia on March 26, the ongoing leadership battle in the House of Representatives took a dramatic legal turn as justices grilled lawyers on both sides of the crisis -- casting sharp criticism at the so-called "majority bloc" of lawmakers while also probing the legal foundation of the embattled Speaker J. Fonati Koffa's Bill of Information.

[OCHA] Port Sudan -- I am appalled and deeply saddened by the continued and intensifying attacks on civilians across Sudan.

[Independent (Kampala)] Juba -- The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has warned that the country is on the brink of relapsing into widespread conflict, after First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar was put under house arrest on Wednesday.

[Unicef] UNICEF calls for urgent protection of children and immediate, unimpeded humanitarian access

[Leigh Day] Members of local communities living near Kasungu National Park on the Zambian-Malawi border are bringing a legal claim against the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) following an elephant relocation project that is alleged to have caused the deaths of at least 12 people, injured many more and left local communities in constant fear for their lives.

[allAfrica] Tanzania is winning the battle against maternal and newborn deaths, as the latest numbers reveal a significant decline.

[Bhekisisa] A leaked memo for grant management staff of the US government's National Institutes of Health (NIH), dated March 25 and of which Bhekisisa has seen a copy, instructs officers to hold ''all [research] awards to entities located in South Africa''.

[Premium Times] "If we don't get US support, that translates into 1.2 million deaths over the next five years."

[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa is under pressure over the planned 31 March protests amid fresh challenges to his rule, which has been marred by accusations of corruption and cronyism.

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[Premium Times] If Nigeria is re-designated as a CPC under the US International Religious Freedom Act, it could face diplomatic and economic consequences, including sanctions and restrictions on US foreign aid.