[Daily Trust] President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed the Republic of Chad for what he calls the effective "security back-up" given to Nigeria in fighting insurgency.

[New Times] Emmanuel Muvandimwe, 19, was sentenced to life in prison after a Gasabo court found him guilty of raping 17 boys.

[Daily News] BURUNDI and Tanzania revealed a plan to raise $1.9bn for constructing a railway line linking the two countries.

[New Times] Saturday AS Kigali 1-1 CS Sfaxien (2-5 Agg)

[ICRC] On 15 and 16 February, violent clashes between state armed forces and armed groups broke out in the town of Bambari. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) transported 25 wounded and injured people to the town's university hospita...

[New Times] Rwanda and China have signed agreements where the Asian country will provide Kigali with a grant worth $60 million (Rwf59.5 billion).

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] - Armed groups have recruited nearly 3,000 children in Central African Republic (CAR) since violence flared over a Dec. 27 election result and more are at risk as aid fails to reach many people driven from their homes, ai...

[ISS] Will Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi at last turn the Grand Inga Mirage into the Grand Inga Barrage? The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo downstream of Kinshasa to eventually generate up to 50 000 MW of el...

[New Times] The trial of Claude Muhayimana, a genocide suspect living in France, is expected to start on November 22 after being postponed several times and thus delayed for over a year.

[New Times] Restaurants and cafes will now be allowed to host clients to 30 percent of their occupancy capacity, according to new cabinet resolutions on the prevention of the spread of Covid-19 in the country.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Mexico City -- Brazil, Indonesia, Colombia, Peru and DR Congo have weakened regulations to boost economic growth

[RFI] The government in the Democratic Republic of Congo is using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to backtrack on environmental safeguards, which is impacting on the rights of indigenous people, according to a report published on Thursday.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The national senior male basketball team could qualify for the African Basketball Championship, in case of a win against Mozambique, on Friday Night (8pm).

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan health authorities reported, this Thursday, the registration of 52 new infections, 21 recoveries and 2 deaths from Covid-19, in the last 24 hours.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan President, João Lourenço, appointed last Thursday Olga Lukocheka da Silva Sabalo Miranda, Kátia Mariana Siliveli Epalanga Lutucuta and Osvaldo Inácio as executive directors of the country's largest oil company, Sonan...

[CAF] Cameroon's young Indomitable Lions have already booked a ticket to the quarter finals of the Total Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations with an assured spot on top of Group A.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Judoka Diassonema Neidy lost this Thursday in the "Grand Slam" of Tel Aviv, 0Israel, to the European champion, the Italian Verónica Toniolo.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Diamantino de Azevedo, said this Thursday, in Luanda, that Angola only produces 20 percent of its daily consumption needs for crude oil by-products.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, appointed Frederico Manuel dos Santos e Silva Cardoso as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Angola in Saudi Arabia.

[This Day] Nigeria's D'Tigers continued their dominance of African basketball yesterday with another emphatic 64-51pts win over Rwanda at the ongoing 2021 FIBA Afrobasket qualifiers in Monastir, Tunisia.

[New Times] The national football team currently without a head coach just one month before Rwanda takes on Mozambique in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers.

[Norwegian Refugee Council] Almost 210,000 people are newly displaced as a result of the escalating conflict in Central African Republic since mid-December, bringing the total number of displaced to 1.5 million, almost a third of the country's total ...

[CAF] Burkina Faso came from behind to beat the Central African Republic 3-1 at Cheikh Ould Boidiya Stadium to increase their chances of making the quarter finals of the Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations.

[New Times] Malawian referee Gift Chicco will not be in charge of the Caf Confederation Cup match between AS Kigali and Tunisian outfit CS Sfaxien after testing positive to Covid-19.

[New Times] Rwanda's quest to end their winless run in the qualifiers of the African Basketball Championship (Afrobasket) suffered yet another blow on Thursday following a defeat to Nigeria.

[New Times] The Rwandan Parliament earlier this week passed a resolution urging their European Union counterparts to retract their resolution on Paul Rusesabagina's case, a terror suspect, given the inviolability of the principle of judicial independ...

[New Times] The government will continue engaging neighbouring countries, especially DR Congo, under bilateral and regional frameworks to ensure continued flow of cross border trade, especially after the initial Covid-19 induced border closures exemp...

[New Times] The Office of the Prime Minister on Thursday, February 18, gazetted the amended law establishing Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB), in a move that will see the firm gaining greater autonomy from the state in terms of governance.

[The Conversation Africa] In countries with weak governance institutions, 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 developm...

[African Arguments] Tshisekedi has outmanoeuvred his predecessor and has now appointed a PM. But is a victory for the president one for the Congolese people?