[RFI] Countries of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) will hold another summit in 10 days to discuss the situation in the Central African Republic. A summit held on Friday reaffirmed the regional bloc's support for the val...

[DW] Nearly half of those fleeing crossed over into the Democratic Republic of Congo. The national army has been battling rebels since a presidential vote took place in December.

[New Times] If things go as anticipated, the first consignment of Covid-19 vaccine will be in Rwanda in a matter of weeks.

[Cameroon Tribune] Dr Hassan Ben Bachir, secrétaire permanent du Programme élargi de vaccination.

[Cameroon Tribune] Though Cameroon was declared wild poliomyelitis-free on June 18, 2020, surveillance and immunisation efforts must be stepped up because two other polio types are yet to be eliminated.

[New Times] The Ministry of Sports on December 11 suspended the 2020/21 Rwanda Premier League season indefinitely after just three match days, having found that some players and clubs had violated covid-19 guidelines, which resulted in new cases.

[New Times] Residents who often face water shortage in some parts of Kigali city and Kigali peri-urban areas are likely to wait a bit longer after Covid-19 disrupted the progress of the water supply project.

[New Times] The national football team, Amavubi was eliminated from the CHAN 2020 tournament after suffering a 1-0 defeat to Guinea on Sunday, January 31 in Cameroon.

[IFJ] Burundi's media have faced a serious crackdown and harassment by the authorities since a 2015 crisis when the government of former president Pierre Pierre Nzurunziza provoked the destruction and shut down of several radio and TV stations and fo...

[UN News] Violence and insecurity related to the recent elections in the Central African Republic (CAR) has forced more than 200,000 people to flee their homes in less than two months, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday, warning tens of tho...

[RFI] Top Vatican official Pietro Parolin has met Cameroon's President Paul Biya, as part of a five-day trip in which he is expected to visit the country's Anglophone regions, where fighting between separatists and security forces continues.

[RFI] Security in the Central African Republic is top of the agenda for a meeting of International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) on Friday, as the UN warned that 200,000 people have fled fighting since violence broke out over December'...

[New Times] Two weeks ago, the Rwanda Basketball Federation (Ferwaba) named Moise Mutokambali as new technical director.

[New Times] Rwandans will on Monday, February 1, mark Heroes Day, an annual event organized to pay tribute to the people who exemplified and defended the highest values of patriotism and sacrifice for the wellbeing of the country and its citizens.

[East African] The United Kingdom has added Rwanda and Burundi to its travel ban red list to prevent the spread of new variants of Covid-19.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan health authorities have registered 226 recovered patients and 51 new cases in the last 24 hours.

[Nation] The Lingala music fraternity is mourning the death of former Kass Kass band singer Jean Papy Ramazani who died on Wednesday in North Seattle, USA.

[East African] Australian think tank Lowy Institute has placed Rwanda in sixth place in managing the Covid-19 pandemic and for making its information about the pandemic publicly accessible.

[African Arguments] Analysis of Rwanda's survey data reveals interesting findings about the country's youth, including a mysterious anomaly.

[MSF] In the last two years, the unrest in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have found refuge on the other side of the border between North and South Kivu, where they share limited reso...

[CISA] Goma -- A joint mission by the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) and the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), has revealed that people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are living in great suff...

[Nation] Kenya dropped three places in the 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) published on Thursday by Transparency International (TI).

[East African] Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye on Thursday urged the country's media regulatory body (CNC) to hold an urgent meeting with media houses that were banned or sanctioned to discuss possible reopening of the businesses.

[HRW] Important Step Needs Follow-Up with Higher Level Suspects

[New Times] Testing people for Covid-19 from areas where they live, and free of charge, is an important factor showing that the Government cares about their health, Kigali City residents have said.

[New Times] ICT and Innovation Minister Paula Ingabire has been named founding board member of EDISON Alliance, a new global venture set to close the digital divide.

[New Times] Land titles are set to go 'paperless' as the government prepares to digitise the property registration process.

[East African] Uganda last week resumed repatriation of Burundian refugees from several settlements across the country, an exercise that had stopped following logistical challenges between the two countries and United Nations High Commissioner for Re...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Foreign Minister Teté António requested the support of the Indian ambassador, Pratibha Parkar, to influence her government to make Angola one of the priorities in acquiring vaccines against Covid-19, without constraints, as part o...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Minister for Telecommunications, Information Technology and Media, Manuel Homem, on Thursday expressed dismay at the death of journalist Joaquim Pereira de Almeida, who had been ill.