[Capital FM] Kinshasa -- Felix Tshisekedi, president of the DR Congo, is in full control of a new government unveiled Monday following a four-month power struggle with his predecessor Joseph Kabila, an official announcement indicated.

[Nation] DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi has named a new cabinet, two months after the appointment of Prime Minister Sama Lukonde.

[UN News] Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in Africa's Great Lakes region are "on the right track", with leaders pushing forward on political, security and economic cooperation, UN Special Envoy Huang Xia told the Security C...

[JusticeInfo.net] With a special court that has yet to open a trial and a truth commission that is not up and running, international attention on victims in the Central African Republic is waning. Since 2015, the unfulfilled promises of justice made ...

[The Conversation Africa] Over the last few decades, African governments have removed restrictions on and privatised their mining industries, attracting significant foreign direct investment. As a result, the continent's mining industry has become do...

[New Times] President Paul Kagame is expected to be among African leaders who will this afternoon meet to discuss the continent's vaccine manufacturing roadmap.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The health authorities have registered, in the last 24 hours, 95 new cases, 35 recovered patients and one death.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The State Secretary for International Cooperation and Communities, Domingos Vieiras Lopes, on Monday in Luanda noted the role of Angolan diplomacy in attracting foreign investors to boost the national economy.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- More than 500 million barrels of oil are available in the onshore basins of Lower Congo and Kwanza, for exploration and production by possible national and foreign investors.

[New Times] Local e-commerce company Safi Run is exploring the use of USSD codes as an additional means to compliment the already existing platforms that are mainly based on the internet.

[New Times] Patriots Basketball Club, Rwanda's representatives in the upcoming inaugural Basketball Africa League (BAL), will start training next week ahead of the elite competition.

[IPS] New York -- Commentators talk about a "new Cold War" between the United States and China. They sometimes conclude that the geopolitical rivalry between these two major powers has ruined the effectiveness of the UN Security Council through hosti...

[East African] The Democratic Republic of Congo has witnessed an upsurge of measles with more than 13,000 cases reported since January this year.

[New Times] Media practitioners in Rwanda have urged the public to exercise caution while using social media, urging them to pick out valuable and truthful information and shun falsehoods and rumours that are spread by ill-motivated genocide deniers.

[East African] On April 7 every year, Rwanda starts a 100-day commemoration period of the 1994 Genocide against The Tutsi that took more than one million lives. This year, just like 2020, Kwibuka 27 comes at a time when Covid-19 pandemic has halted g...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The secretary general of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Georges Chikoti, announced the secretariat's support for the Covax / Covid-19 vaccine sharing platform.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan health authorities reported this Saturday the recovery of 301 patients of Covid-19, plus 89 new cases and one death of the same disease, in the last 24 hours.

[ANGOP] Ondjiva -- A plague of locusts, which appeared last Friday (9), is destroying crops of millet, sorghum and corn in the southern Cunene Province of Angola.

[Independent (Kampala)] AFDB facility will support Equity's expansion in East and Central Africa and ensure

[New Times] Rwanda has joined the rest of the world to send messages of solidarity to the United Kingdom following the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II who died Friday aged 99.

[ANGOP] Dundo -- The Minister of Youth and Sports, Ana Paula Neto, has been working since Monday in Lunda Norte province, where, among other issues, she will preside over the central act of the National Youth Day, to be held on the 14th of this month...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Formigas do Cazenga defeated Academia do 1º de Agosto on Sunday by 65-61 in the second round of the provincial senior women's basketball championship.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angola government has issued a Presidential Decree on the State of Calamity that authorizes the resumption of federate fight competitions in the country as from Sunday midnight.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Petro de Luanda lost this Saturday night in Casablanca (Morocco) to the local Wydad, by 0-2, in a game for the sixth and final round of group C of the African Champion Clubs Cup in football, confirming the worst participation always...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The new Presidential Decree on the Situation of Public Calamity has been in force since this Sunday, for a period of 30 days, within the scope of the government 's strategy to contain Covid-19.

[VOA] Maroua, Cameroon -- About 60 former fighters and civilians rescued from Boko Haram by Nigerian, Chadian and Cameroonian troops have been rushed to a disarmament, demobilization and reintegration center in northern Cameroon. Most of the civilian...

[New Times] Media should endeavour to have knowledge on the law punishing Genocide ideology as part of the efforts to raise awareness about the vice and disseminate accurate information to the public.

[New Times] Over 97,000 victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi buried at Nyanza Genocide Memorial in Kicukiro were on Sunday, April 11 commemorated as part of 27th commemoration of genocide against the Tutsi.

[New Times] The Rwandan High Commissioner to India, Jacqueline Mukangira, has called upon the youth in Diaspora to be at the forefront to challenge narratives Genocide deniers who seek to mislead the world on the true events of the 1994 Genocide agai...

[New Times] On the 7th of April 2021, as Rwandans were commemorating the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, US and UK officials engaged in a sordid competition of genocide denial by issuing shameful statements found here and here in which the victims a...