[New Times] Rwandan cyclists were disappointing in the 2021 Tour du Rwanda as none came in the top twenty in the general classification which was dominated by foreign riders.

[New Times] Rwandan champions Patriots will start their 2021 Basketball Africa League (BAL) against Rivers Hoopers of Nigerian side on May 16.

[New Times] The Auditor-General Obadiah Biraro is expected to appear before a joint parliamentary session on Tuesday, May 11, where he will present his 2019/2020 audit report.

[New Times] Rwanda's private sector players are optimistic of increased intra-regional trade in the East African Community (EAC), following the change of leadership at the bloc's Secretariat, which took office last month.

[Nation] No Kenyan club qualified for the 2021 Basketball Africa League (BAL) but there will be some Kenyan flavour when the tournament tips off at the Kigali Indoor Arena in Rwanda on May 16.

[New Times] Rwanda Meteorology Agency has announced "very heavy rains" that will be experienced between May 8 and 12.

[New Times] Cristian Rodriguez, who rides for Total Direct Energie, has become the first Spanish and European rider to win the Tour du Rwanda.

[New Times] The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) Chief of Defence Staff, General Jean-Bosco Kazura on Saturday received the chief of General Staff of the Central African Republic Armed Forces (FACA), Major General Zephlin Mamadou, who was in Rwanda to amon...

[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Envoys from Chad's ruling military council are seeking support from its central African neighbors in fighting rebels who they say endanger a smooth return to civilian rule. Chad's delegation told Cameroon's president that w...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan government announced Saturday the suspension, as of Monday, 10, of the entry into Angola of non-resident foreign citizens from or with passages in Brazil and India.

[RFI] An African adage maintains that a woman's hair is like a crown: it stands high, carrying the history and identity of a whole race. And more women in Cameroon are proudly wearing it today as a fashionable look.

[African Arguments] Mali's security might not be the first issue that comes to mind when hearing of the passing of Idriss Déby Itno. His death on the battlefield - or at least in proximity, depending on the account - clearly indicates that trouble i...

[East African] Rwanda is in negotiations with Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to see how the jab can be produced locally, officials have said.

[East African] The April 26 investiture of President Félix Tshisekedi's new parliamentary majority, known as the Sacred Union, marks the end of a long period in which the president remained under the strong influence of his predecessor, Joseph Kabil...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The MPLA parliamentary group expressed on Saturday its sadness over the death of member of parliament Raúl Danda, in Luanda.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The government on Saturday announced a ban on citizens entering and leaving Luanda province, as of Monday, 10 November, as part of new measures to prevent and combat Covid-19.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angolan main opposition UNITA's MP, Raúl Danda, died of disease Saturday morning in a Luanda clinic, Angop learned from a family source.

[ANGOP] Cacuso -- Production of 120,000 tons of white sugar started this Friday at Companhia de Bio-combustíveis de Angola (Biocom), located in Cacuso municipality, in Angola's Malanje province.

[ANGOP] Soyo -- The Minister of the Interior, Eugénio Laborinho, appealed Friday in Soyo, Zaire province, for joint actions between his sector and other State bodies to combat cross-border crimes, particularly illegal immigration and fuel smuggling.

[ANGOP] Luanda . Angola has detected 276 new positive cases of Covid-19, two deaths and 15 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the Health minister announced Saturday evening in Luanda.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The UNITA parliamentary group expressed on Saturday its deep sorrow over the death of member of parliament Raúl Danda, who died this morning in a health unit in Luanda, victim of disease.

[New Times] Theogene Uwayo was on Sunday, May 8 unanimously elected as the new president of the Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee (RNOSC) for the next four years.

[New Times] Colombia's Jhonatan Restrepo won the Kigali Wall time trial in the penultimate stage of the Tour du Rwanda which concludes on Sunday.

[New Times] The Prime Minister of Central African Republic (CAR), Firmin Ngrebada, on Friday, May 7, awarded certificates to his Rwandan 'Special Escort Team' in recognition of their service.

[HRW] Martial law went into force yesterday in two conflict-ridden provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo to "swiftly end the insecurity which is killing our fellow citizens on a daily basis," a government spokesman said. This means the milita...

[East African] Cameroon has created 11 new political parties, bringing the total number of legalised political parties in the Central African country to 330.

[WHO] Your Excellency President Tshisekedi,

[New Times] Commonwealth Heads of States and Government's Meeting (CHOGM) which was scheduled for June 21st this year has been postponed due to the Covid-19 surge and related effects in some member countries.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, on Friday appointed Augusto da Silva Cunha as Angola's new ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Russian Federation.

[New Times] The Ministry of Health should commission a thorough psychological diagnosis on perpetrators of the Genocide against the Tutsi, to determine their frame of mind when they committed the horrific acts in 1994.