Burundi: The campaign for next month's presidential, legislative and municipal elections has begun with giant rallies, and officials brushing aside concerns about the coronavirus and reports of violence against the opposition.
Nigeria: President Muhammadu Buhari said Nigeria will start easing a coronavirus lockdown covering its largest city, Lagos, and capital, Abuja, from May 4.
South Africa: President Cyril Ramaphosa says "poverty and inequality still define" South African society, and that the nation will have to face a "contracting economy" and "weakened state" when it eventually emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.
Kenya: The country is struggling with the price of medical oxygen for hospitals, essential in the treatment of the new coronavirus patients, which is 5 times higher than in Europe or the United States.
Libya: Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar says he had "a popular mandate" to govern the country, declaring a key 2015 political deal has ended and vowing to press his assault to seize Tripoli
