On The Roundup Wrap the segment, resident analyst, Mighti Jamie unpacks some of the key stories we've highlighted earlier and give us a look ahead at the week to come.

TALKING POINTS

** US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday oversaw the signing by DRC and Rwanda of a pledge to work toward a peace deal in eastern Congo. Rubio's participation in the Washington ceremony with his Great Lakes counterparts is an early step in what the Trump administration says is a rebuilding of US foreign policy to focus on transactions of direct financial or strategic benefit to the United States.

** Burkina Faso has granted an industrial mining licence to Russian miner Nordgold for a gold project, aiming to capitalise on record-high gold prices to strengthen an economy hit by insecurity. The move signals deepening economic ties between Russia and Burkina Faso, as the junta that seized power in 2022 continues its pivot away from traditional Western allies towards Moscow.

** Uganda has declared an end to the Ebola Sudan Virus Disease outbreak after completing a 42-day mandatory countdown without any new confirmed cases reported, less than three months after the virus was detected in the capital, Kampala.
 
** Tanzania has lifted a ban on imports of agricultural produce from Malawi and South Africa, just days after imposing it in retaliation for similar measures imposed by the two southern African nations.
Tanzania Plant Health and Pesticides Authority's director general, Joseph Ndunguru, said that Tanzania was lifting the ban effective immediately to allow for a diplomatic ministerial discussion.

** New Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has announced that her government will introduce free higher education at state universities and technical colleges starting next year. Namibia already provides free education in public elementary and high schools. The new policy would remove tuition and registration fees at universities and colleges.

** The World Food Program  said  its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory. Israel cut off entry of all food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza on March 2 and then resumed its bombardment and ground offensives two weeks later, shattering a two-month ceasefire with Hamas.