Internet users in Ethiopia say the government appears to have ended a three-month online blackout, raising hopes of a relaxation of restrictions after the arrival of a new Prime Minister.         The Malawi government says maize exports remain illegal.

This week, Rwanda marked the 24th anniversary of the genocide. In neighbouring Congo, Rwandan Hutus are in limbo as they no longer have refugee status. Rights activists cry foul as Uganda plans tax on social media use from July.

The new DR Congo voting system risks election credibility, say civic groups. Rwanda has become an unlikely victim of Donald Trump’s trade war. The United States is t partly suspend Kigali’s access to Agoa unless it rejects a plan to slap tariffs on American second-hand clothes.

Zimbabwe’s government says it will invite several countries and organisations to observe the country’s general elections for the first time since 2002.

Nigerian President Muhammad Buhari is to seek re-election in 2019. The foreign ministers of Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia have failed to reach an agreement in the dispute over Ethiopia’s massive dam on the Blue Nile.

Newly elected Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed seeks to end violence that displaced nearly a million people, as he visits Oromia. The countrywide fuel shortage has increased suffering in villages, cities and towns in Sudan.

The Opposition candidate and former military junta leader Julius Maanda Bio has been sworn in as Sierra Leone’s new President. Seven opposition leaders in Tanzania were freed on bail following their arrest on charges of sedition and incitement to violence.

Militias kill a United Nations (UN) peacekeeper in Central African Republic. France and other countries with Egypt President El-Sisi success in his new term, after he won more than 95% of votes in the country’s elections.

Tributes from across the African continent pour in for liberation struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta saying the continent has lost a heroine and a liberator. The African Union says 30 Al-Shabaab fighters were killed in an attack in Somalia.

Sierra Leone’s opposition party says its candidate has won the Presidential run-off poll. Botswana’s new President Mokgweetsi Masisi says he wants to wean Botswana off its dependence on diamonds, and create jobs. Ethiopia will inaugurate its new Prime Minister later this week.