Elite troops have joined ongoing youth-led anti-government protests in Madagascar, reported some media on October 12, 2025. According to the reports, the troops belonging to the elite unit called CAPSAT of Madagascar's military, are now urging troops from other units of the military to do the same and support the protests.

A prominent government critic in Tanzania, Humphrey Polepole (55), has vanished without trace after violently been abducted from his home in Dar es Salaam on the night of October 6, 2025. That was reported by some African media on October 7, 2025.

Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali have ditched the International Criminal Court (ICC), reported some African media on September 23, 2025.

Tanzania's opposition presidential nominee in the forthcoming General Elections 2025, whose appeal to a high court in Dar es Salaam, against a decision by the country's electoral body to bar him from the presidential election of the two-tier general elections, was upheld by the court on September 11, 2025, has been disqualified one more time. That was reported by some African media on September 16, 2025.

Tanzania's second largest opposition party ACT-Wazalendo's presidential nominee Luhaga Mpina has made a triumphant return to the ongoing presidential race of the country's forthcoming General Elections 2025, after the High Court there upheld his appeal against the country's electoral body's decision to bar him from the race. That was reported by some African media on September 14, 2025.

Ethiopia on September 9, 2025, launched its gigantic hydropower dam, reported some African media.

Tanzania has barred the presidential nominee for the second largest opposition party Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT-Wazalendo), namely Luhaga Mpina, from running in the presidential election of the country's 2025 General Elections that are scheduled for October 29, 2025. That was reported by some media on August 27, 2025.

A male Caucasian South African farmer, namely Zachariah Johannes Olivier (60), accused of gunning down 2 African South African women and feeding their bodies to his pigs, appeared in a court in Polokwane City in Limpopo Province on August 4, 2025, to face murder trial. Also on trial for the barbaric murders are two of his workers who are accused of assisting him. That was reported by some South African media.

President Paul Biya of Cameroon on July 13, 2025, formally announced that he will run for another mandate in the country's presidential election that is scheduled for October 2025. That was reported by some African media on July 14, 2025.

Nigeria's ex-Leader Muhammadu Buhari is dead. He died in a hospital in London, UK, on July 13, 2025. He was 82.