[UN News] Speaking at a Security Council meeting on the situation in Africa's Great Lakes region on Wednesday, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy, Huang Xia, told ambassadors that the countries concerned now stand "at a crossroads".

[East African] Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye will make a three-day state visit to Tanzania on Friday.

[New Times] Rwanda Space Agency has filed a request to acquire two satellite constellations from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), namely Cinnamon-217 and Cinnamon-937, according to an official statement.

[New Times] The national men's cricket team on Tuesday, October 19, bounced back from their disappointing run of results after tasting their first and only win in the past three games at the ongoing ICC Men's T20 Sub regional Group A World Cup Qualif...

[Cameroon Tribune] Known as PAMEC, it seeks to ensure a reliable and inclusive civil status registry.

[Cameroon Tribune] Government has embarked on modernising the civil status registration system in the country to facilitate development and meet international norms.

[Cameroon Tribune] Government has made available an estimated FCFA 50 billion for road maintenance nationwide.

[New Times] The Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, Uzziel Ndagijimana, has disclosed that over 3,000 small businesses have received financial support through microfinance institutions under the support of the Economic Recovery Fund.

[New Times] Some species, such as birds, are no longer visible yet we used to observe them in nature around the river.

[New Times] Ten years ago Spike ball was largely based in the United States of America and now it is one of the fast-growing sports in the world.

[HRW] Nairobi -- Space for Dissent Closes

[Nation] A military commander in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said on Monday that elements of the Rwandan army had invaded six villages in the province of North Kivu.

[East African] Ugandan Peter Busomoke was possibly one of the few photojournalists to have covered every major conflict in the region in the past 30 years.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, this Tuesday congratulated the newly elected President of Cape Verde, José Maria Neves, for the victory achieved in the Presidential Elections on the 17th of this month.

[New Times] The Military High Court, on Tuesday, October 19 postponed the trial of 38 persons belonging to RUD-Urunana and P5 militias.

[New Times] The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) on Tuesday, October 19, released a statement shedding light on the cross-border incident in Rubavu district a day earlier when Rwandan troops crossed into neighboring DR Congo to pursue smugglers.

[New Times] Burundi has on Tuesday, October 19 handed over to Rwanda eleven anti-Rwanda fighters of Force Nationale de Libération (FLN) terror outfit.

[New Times] The Supreme Court on Monday, October 18 heard a case in which a local non-governmental organisation, Great Lakes Initiative for Human Rights and Development (GLIHD), sought to challenge two articles within the Penal Code regarding safe ab...

[New Times] Ugandan security services in the western district of Mbarara on Tuesday, October 19, arrested two Rwandan university students who were travelling home but in a separate incident released agents of an anti-Rwanda militia group in another p...

[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon's French-speaking towns on the border with the English-speaking western regions are creating militias to stop separatist incursions. The militias say separatists are entering French-speaking towns to steal food and weapons f...

[African Arguments] When everyone knows the emperor has no clothes but no one dares say it out loud, even the smallest acts of dissent become ones of radical defiance.

[East African] Rwanda army has acknowledged incursion into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, describing it as unintentional.

[East African] The Democratic Republic of Congo government has announced an imminent purge of "doubtful contracts" in the forestry sector, promising another round of anxiety in an area of the economy deemed exploited by foreign entities.

[Cameroon Tribune] Anurin Nwunembom, Cameroonian actor, director and producer.

[Cameroon Tribune] An audience between the two Ministers of External Relations held recently focused on enhancing bilateral relations as concerns developmental projects between the two parties.

[Cameroon Tribune] The article announcing the opening of the accreditations was published on the Confederation of African Football official website recently.

[VOA] Washington -- Rwandan dissidents have died under mysterious circumstances inside and outside the country with alarming frequency in recent years.

[ISS] Laws and certification schemes aren't protecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo's most vulnerable - a fresh approach is needed.

[Greenpeace] The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, during the council of ministers on Friday, October 15th, ordered the suspension of all dubious logging concessions, including the 6 granted in September 2020. Gr...

[Cameroon Tribune] External Relations Minister received in audience two senior UN officials of West and Central Africa on October 18, 2021.