[Africa In Fact] In weakly institutionalised contexts, natural resource wealth tends to be a curse instead of a blessing. Where citizens are relatively powerless to hold ruling elites to account, resource wealth undermines development prospects. To t...

[Cameroon Tribune] They used the name of the Secretary General of the General Delegation for National Security to crook personnel of the Police Corps and the Ministry of Defence.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] As world marks Red Hand Day, more attention must be paid to girls recruited by armed groups.

[New Times] The Inspector-General of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), Lieutenant General Jacques Musemakweli has died. He was 59.

[East African] The value of investments in Rwanda fell drastically by almost half from $2.46 billion in 2019 to $1.3 billion in 2020 primarily due to the coronavirus pandemic that affected the economy and investors worldwide.

[Nation] Australian coach Liz Mills will handle Kenya Morans in their Fiba Afrobasket Group "C"final round of qualifiers in Yaounde, Cameroon late this month.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- FC Bravos do Maquis defeated 1º Agosto by 3-2 on Wednesday in the 8th round of the national first division football championship, Girabola2020/21, played at Luanda's 11 de Novembro Stadium.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola's Petro de Luanda football team have been forced to leave three players due to injure, ahead of their encounter with Guinea Conakry's Horoya on Saturday in the first round of group C of the African Champions League to take pl...

[ANGOP] Uíge -- A library with capacity for 20 seats was unveiled on Wednesday in Negage municipality, northern Uíge province.

[ANGOP] Mbanza Kongo -- The works for the upgrading of the sports and cultural complex of the Cine Club Comandante Bula, in Mbanza Kongo city, northern Zaire province, are expected to be resumed this year.

[ANGOP] Lubango -- The 2021 edition of the carnival in the southern Huila Province will pay homage to six local carnival groups of adults and children that have stay put for the last ten years in the province.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The president of FIBA-Africa, Aníbal Manave, admitted Wednesday the possibility of the senior women team of 1º de Agosto to participate in the African Champions League of Basketball Clubs, although they have not won the internal c...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Coronavirus pandemic feared driving more children into armed groups as world marks Red Hand Day

[This Day] Repatriation of Nigerian refugees from Cameroon has been fixed for February 27 and March 7, 2021.

[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.

[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.

[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).