CHINA: Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Saturday that Beijing will scrap tariffs for all African nations but Eswatini as of May 1.

President Xi said the new zero-tariff deal “will undoubtedly provide new opportunities for African development.”

China already has a zero-tariff policy for imports from 33 African countries.

Eswatini is excluded from the deal because it maintains diplomatic relations with the Chinese breakaway province of Taiwan.

NIGERIA: At least 32 people have been killed after gunmen launched simultaneous attacks on three communities in the north-central region of Nigeria, the police and a resident said Saturday.

The dawn raids targeted the communities of Tunga-Makeri, Konkoso and Pissa, in the Borgu area of Niger state.

PAKISTAN: Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan will undergo treatment for an eye condition at a specialised medical facility, a cabinet minister said on Saturday, days after the Supreme Court ordered a medical evaluation amid growing concerns about his eyesight.

Earlier this week, Mr Khan’s lawyer, Salman Safdar, told the Supreme Court that the former premier had lost roughly 85 per cent of vision in his right eye.

UNITED STATES: US President Donald Trump’s administration spent at least $40 million (£29 million) to deport around 300 migrants to countries other than their own, according to a report released on Saturday by the country’s Senate foreign relations committee.

The report showed payments of between $4.7 million (£3.4 million) and $7.5 million (£5.4 million) to Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, El Salvador, Eswatini and Palau to deport migrants to those nations, describing the payments as “costly, wasteful and poorly supervised.”