[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...

[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...

[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.

[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...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The deputies to the National Assembly (Angolan parliament) defended last Monday the need to regulate the financial activity of foreign exchange businesses, collective investment organizations, micro-credits and other similar institu...

[Vanguard] Maiduguri -- by Bankole

[Cameroon Tribune] The President of the Cameroon Amputee Football, (CAMPUTEE) Ngala Maimo Wajiri has resigned. He made the announcement on February 4, 2021 on his Facebook page. "It is with a heavy heart and a face of smiles that I announce my resign...

[Cameroon Tribune] The first wave of fans votes places the Sixers on the third position with some 1,584,028 votes.

[Cameroon Tribune] Contrary to previous editions, this year's race will be taking place under strict measures instituted by the International Athletics Federation to limit the spread of the virus.

[Cameroon Tribune] Despite the readiness of both teams the world football governing body has pushed forward the competition to April 2021.

[Cameroon Tribune] Ambassador Ayse Sarac had a farewell audience with Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on February 9, 2021.

[Cameroon Tribune] A series of consultation meetings with the Presidents of Regional Councils, Regional Treasurers and Secretaries General of Regions took place in Yaounde on February 9, 2021

[Cameroon Tribune] A contract to construct a primary school in the Tiko Subdivision was signed on Monday 8, February, 2021 at the residence of the Japanese Ambassador in Yaounde.

[ICRC] All Suffered From Malnutrition -- Three years may have passed since violence ravaged the central region of Kasai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but thousands of families are still struggling to return to normal. Farming is the main l...

[ICRC] With many meteorological stations having fallen into disuse or now obsolete, the climate of the Central African Republic is one of the most poorly monitored in the world. Yet this green and fertile country is one of the most vulnerable to clim...

[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.

[IPS] Bangui -- Last October, an ICRC medical team helped a woman deliver a baby boy in the bush on their way to a health center we support in Grévaï, a small town in the north-central region of CAR. On her way to the market, by foot, the woman wen...

[UN News] The study of science could have a "transformational" impact on young people living in different conflict areas across the world according to the UN's Education Cannot Wait programme.

[New Times] The World Bank Group is preparing a $500 million financing facility for Rwanda to be announced in coming days.

[New Times] Former players of the national football team Amavubi have written a three-page open letter highlighting key issues needed to develop football in Rwanda.

[New Times] With five months until the 2020 Olympic Games, Rwandan athletes' hopes to secure qualification to represent the country at the games are in jeopardy due to failure to get competitions in which they can get qualification.