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Thu, 08 Apr 2021 07:45:13 GMT
Central African Republic: Why CAR and the U.S. Might Need Each Other
[African Arguments] The US has the neutrality and influence to mediate in the CAR. It would also be a chance for Biden to show that diplomacy is back.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:40:56 GMT
Cameroon: Dialysis Patients Protest Poor Treatment, Equipment Shortage
[VOA] Yaoundé -- Scores of Cameroonians with kidney failure and their relatives have blocked traffic since Monday around a Yaoundé hospital to protest a shortage of dialysis treatment. Cameroon authorities blame administrative procedures and corona...

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:29:32 GMT
Rwanda: Lies Do Not Define Rwanda, Kagame
[New Times] Lies and falsehoods about Rwanda motivated by petty resentments do not define the country and will not determine the country's fate, President Paul Kagame has said.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 04:37:07 GMT
Chad: President Déby Seeks a Sixth Term in a Region for Old Men
[African Arguments] Central Africa boasts many of the world's longest-standing authoritarian rulers. But protests are growing.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:17:31 GMT
Cameroon: Senior Health Official Dies at 75
[East African] A senior Cameroonian government official who has been on the frontline of the fight against the deadly coronavirus pandemic has died of an undisclosed illness.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 23:10:53 GMT
Rwanda: Call to Action from the Advocacy Network on Africa
[allAfrica] Following is a statement from the Advocacy Network on Africa (AdNA) Rwanda Working Group

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:50:24 GMT
Rwanda: France Opens Archives On Genocide As Rwanda Remembers Start of 1994 Killings
[RFI] France will open up a number of state archives covering the genocide in Rwanda, the government announced on Wednesday. The move comes as Kigali marks 27 years since the start of the mass killings on 7 April 1994 that saw some 800,000 people sla...

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:34:51 GMT
Rwanda: Rwanda Imposes Partial Lockdown in Southern Districts
[East African] Rwanda has put six sectors in Huye, Gisagara, and Nyaruguru districts in the Southern province under a three-week lockdown to curb rising Covid-19 infections.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:55:21 GMT
Angola: Igae to Open Office for Complaints in Luanda
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Luanda province will open a provincial Office of the General Inspection for State Administration (IGAE), aimed to accommodate whistleblowing cases, said the new delegate of the institution in Luanda province.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:55:21 GMT
Angola: Eni Announces a New Light Oil Well Discovery in Angola
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Italian oil company Eni has discovered a new light oil well in Block 15/06, in deep waters off the Angolan offshore, according to a press release reached Angop on Tuesday.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:55:18 GMT
Angola: Bento Bento Reinstated As MPLA First Secretary in Luanda
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Bento Joaquim Sebastião Francisco Bento was named single candidate for the position of the First Secretary of the ruling MPLA party in Luanda province.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 07:55:28 GMT
Chad: Chad At the UN - Making the African Voice Heard
[Africa Renewal] Ambassador Ammo Aziza Baroud from Chad is one of only a handful of African female Permanent Representatives of their countries to the UN in New York. In Africa Renewal's series profiling the African women representing their countries...

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 07:53:09 GMT
Rwanda: Rwanda At the UN - Vaccine Equity, Inclusion, Peace, and Gender Equality Top Our Priorities
[Africa Renewal] Ambassador Valentine Rugwabiza from Rwanda is one of only a handful of African female Permanent Representatives of their countries to the UN in New York. In Africa Renewal's series profiling the African women representing their count...

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 07:48:41 GMT
Cameroon: Epidemiology Training - Govt Launches Competitive Examination
[Cameroon Tribune] According to the circular, latest date to receive application file is April 23, 2021.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 07:48:36 GMT
Cameroon: Nanbudo Friendship Tournament - Cameroon Emerges Champions
[Cameroon Tribune] Her athletes finished first with 18 gold and two silver medals in the competition which ran from March 30 to 31, 2021 in Yaounde.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:33:46 GMT
Rwanda: All Right-Thinking People Must Fight Genocide Deniers - UN Court Chief
[New Times] The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, or the Mechanism, Judge Carmel Agius, on Wednesday, April 7, firmly moved against deniers of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:33:05 GMT
Rwanda: Rwandans in Senegal Commemorate Genocide Against the Tutsi
[New Times] Rwandans and friends of Rwanda in Senegal on Wednesday, April 7, gathered to commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi that claimed more than one million lives in 100 days.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:46:42 GMT
Rwanda: The Rwanda Project - Chilean-Born, New York-Based Conceptual Artist Alfredo Jaar's Latest Work At the Zeitz Mocaa
[Daily Maverick] In his latest exhibition, a series of installations, Alfredo Jaar, the global giant of social justice and conceptual art, meditates on the binary positions of spectatorship to war, and the role of the media. It's a must-see, says Kat...

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:16:07 GMT
Cameroon: Urban Music - The Strides of Mr. Leo
[Cameroon Tribune] From a military ghetto in Buea, South West region, Fonyuy Leonard Nsohburinka known by the World as Mr. Leo, has now become a household name in Cameroon's music industry.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:16:06 GMT
Cameroon: Senate - Justice, Socially Inclusive Bills Adopted
[Cameroon Tribune] The First Vice President, Aboubakary Abdoulaye chaired the plenary session during which the bills were adopted on April 6, 2021.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:16:04 GMT
Cameroon: South West Regional Council - Executive Drilled On Budget Preparation
[Cameroon Tribune] A three-day seminar to this effect opened in Buea yesterday, April 6, 2021.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:38:35 GMT
Rwanda: Parts of Southern Province Placed Under Lockdown
[New Times] Effective Wednesday, April 7, construction works at Hakan Peat Plant project will stop, following a lockdown imposed on some sectors in Gisagara, Huye, and Nyaruguru districts on Tuesday.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:30:07 GMT
Angola: Luanda Biennial Strengths Culture of Peace
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola has reiterated the 2nd Luanda Biennial's commitment to strengthening of the climate of peace in Africa.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:51:53 GMT
Angola: Bna Surveys Inflation Expectations
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The National Bank of Angola (BNA) has developed an inflation expectations indicator with the aim of increasingly improving its tools for analysing the behaviour of prices of goods and services in the economy.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:51:53 GMT
Angola: Cabinda Maritime Terminal Starts Operating Next July
[ANGOP] Cabinda -- The ferryboat for transporting passengers and cargo on the Luanda/Soyo/Cabinda routes and vice-versa, will start operating in July this year, which is also the month for the conclusion of the works on the breakwater and docking ram...

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:51:52 GMT
Angola: Arozal Farm Expects to Harvest 4,000 Tons of Rice
[ANGOP] Cuito -- About 4,000 tons of rice will be harvested in the current agricultural season at Arozal farm, located in Camacupa municipality, Bié province.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:51:52 GMT
Angola: Eni Plans to Invest Usd Seven Billion in Angola By 2025
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Italian oil company ENI-SPA announced Tuesday in Luanda that it plans to invest USD seven billion over the next four years in research, production, refining and solar energy.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:51:49 GMT
Angola: Bié Government Reiterates Support for All Youth
[ANGOP] Cuito -- The Bié provincial government has reiterated its willingness to support all young people, regardless of their political party colour, belief or social condition, through internal policies in the framework of the 2018-2022 National D...

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 06:44:36 GMT
Namibia/Angola: Gladiators Wallop Angola
[Namibian] NAMIBIA beat Angola 4-0 in the first of two international friendlies at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:50:54 GMT
Cameroon: Church Mourns Archbishop Emeritus Christian Cardinal Tumi
[CISA] Douala -- By CISA



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