[New Times] Heavy rains and lightning have killed 25 people and left 51 others injured across the country since January this year, according to statistics by the Ministry of Emergency Management (MINEMA).

[DW] President Idriss Deby has ruled Chad for 30 years. His nomination to run for a sixth term in the April election is inflaming tensions in a country marked by economic woes and frustration with the political elite.

[HRW] Kinshasa -- Investigate New Leads in 2010 Chebeya-Bazana Case

[CPJ] New York -- Congolese authorities should immediately release journalist Pius Romain Rolland Ngoie and reform their country's laws to decriminalize defamation, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

[New Times] Although pretrial detention should still be applied where it is deemed necessary and is supported by overwhelming evidence, there is reason to push for more people to be tried when they not incarcerated, the Spokesman for the National Pub...

[New Times] Rwanda football legends recently launched a union dubbed FAPA (Former Amavubi Players' Association), with the aim of offering their contribution in football development in the country.

[New Times] Veteran shooting guard Kenneth Gasana has insisted that the players are optimistic about staging a better showing in Widow 2 of the African Basketball Championship (Afrobasket) qualifiers as the national team departs for Tunisia.

[New Times] Rwanda National Police (RNP) has arrested three men suspected for being behind series of forgery and defrauding traders in Kigali assorted goods worth over Frw100 million.

[New Times] The government has unveiled a revised budget for the 2020/21 financial year in which it has allocated Rwf29.3 billion to subsidize public transport to offset the losses incurred by transport operators.

[New Times] The Ministry of Infrastructure on Thursday, February 11, issued a public notice putting yet more emphasis on the need for all people intending to travel using the country's land borders to first test and show a negative Covid-19 test in a...

[New Times] The Ministry of Education on Thursday, February 11, temporarily shut down Gatsibo-based Gakoni Adventist College, in Kiramuruzi sector, following a student's strike that destroyed the school's property.

[Daily Trust] A meeting between Nigerian officials and their Cameroonian counterparts has agreed to repatriate about 46,000 Nigerians refugees, mostly from Borno State on February 27 and March 7.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- One more fellow citizen, resident in the Sintra region, outskirts of Lisbon (Portugal), died on Tuesday, victim of Covid-19, bringing to 15 deaths among the Angolan community since the beginning of this pandemic in March 2020 in tha...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- An information campaign on HIV and AIDS will be held from 14 to 16 February, across the country, by the Angolan Network of AIDS Services Organisations (ANASO).

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The African Export and Import Bank (AFREXIMBANK) has USD1.3 billion available to fund projects in Angola, in several areas, the bank's chairperson, Benedict Oramah said Tuesday in Luanda.

[East African] Rwanda plans to increase its 2021/2022 budget by Rwf219 billion ($220.8 million) as the government battles shocks from the global pandemic and seeks to revive the economy.

[East African] Burundi marked unity day last week, a few days after sentencing of the coup plotters of 2015 to life imprisonment.

[New Times] The number of people who have contracted cancer since 2015 has more than doubled, rising from 2,115 cases to 5,040 in 2019, the Director of Cancer Diseases Unit at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), Marc Hagenimana, has said.

[East African] As Rwanda prepares to receive a million Covid-19 vaccines later this month, Minster of Health Daniel Ngamije says community engagement and collaboration among countries is crucial for the vaccine to be effective.

[CFR] Three months after health authorities from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared the country had brought to an end its eleventh outbreak of Ebola, the disease has killed the wife of a survivor in a hospital in Butembo, a large city (e...

[New Times] The national football team players and coaching staff will get huge bonuses after Rwanda's impressive performance at the 2020 CHAN tournament in Cameroon according to Guy Didier Rurangayire, the Director of Sports in the Ministry of Sport...

[New Times] Nyanza District Mayor Erasme Ntazinda says the reintroduction of traditional sports will boost cultural tourism in the area as plans to construct State-of-the-art Nyanza Stadium are ongoing.

[Africa Renewal] COVID-19, the AfCFTA, peace, climate change, integration, gender equality and promoting African culture are his top priorities.

[Crisis Group] As power shifts into the hands of DR Congo's President Tshisekedi, the risk of conflict with Kabila supporters still looms. In this excerpt from our Watch List 2021 for European policymakers, Crisis Group urges the EU and its member st...

[Crisis Group] The risk of an entrenched political and security crisis remains high in the Central African Republic following December's contested elections. In this excerpt from our Watch List 2021 for European policy makers, Crisis Group urges the ...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The minister of National Defence and Veterans of the Homeland, João Ernesto dos Santos, spoke last Tuesday in Luanda, dismayed by the death of the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Mozambique (CEMG), Eugénio Ussene...

[East African] As Rwanda prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in June, it is walking a tightrope due to the prolonged impact of the pandemic as well as increasing pressure to improve its human rights record.

[New Times] The government of Rwanda, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on Tuesday, deployed another set of robots in the country, in a move that seeks to strengthen national response to Covid-19 pandemic.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Adão de Almeida, the minister of State and Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic, reaffirmed last Tuesday that the basic conditions are now created for the resumption of classes in primary education.

[ANGOP] Benguela -- The Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) in the centre-west Benguela Province arrested, last Monday, the director of municipal services of the National Social Security Institute (INSS), Rene Baptista dos Anjos, for allegedly being...