[VOA] Yaounde -- Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Cameroonian security forces are not protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex, or LGBTI, people from violent attacks and are instead arresting victims.

[ISS] Members are expected to help reduce conflict but confront the same structural obstacles that hobbled previous panels.

[The Conversation Africa] Like many others, I was surprised and upset to hear about the UK's new deal to offload its responsibility to tens of thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda. The plan is for Rwanda to process and host such refugees indefinitel...

[IPS] Yaoundé -- Growing up amid under the leafy canopy of the Congo Basin rainforest, the woodland was more than our home. It was our playground, our medicine cabinet, our teacher, our therapist. And it was a source of livelihood with its rich biod...

[Ghanaian Times] Burundi Referee Suavis Iratunga has been appointed for the FIFA Women's U-17 final round first leg qualifier between Ghana and Morocco.

[New Times] Protais Mpiranya, a top fugitive of the Genocide against the Tutsi has been confirmed dead.

[CPJ] Dakar -- Authorities in Chad should cease their harassment of reporter Olivier Memnguidé and ensure journalists can cover events of public interest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday.

[African Arguments] Amid growing resource scarcities, dozens have died and tens of thousands have been displaced by fighting triggered by a cow drowning.

[New Times] Rwanda's economy maintained strong growth in the first quarter of this year, the central bank said on Thursday, reflecting sustained recovery from the 2020 Covid-19-induced contraction.

[New Times] The English laboratory at Mount Kenya University Rwanda (MKUR) is open to members of the public.

[New Times] Rwanda could soon host a publicly accessible data centre on weather, climate, air pollution and water resources to serve the needs of governmental, private sectors and education.

[New Times] Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Rwanda has been lauded for its effective responses and for adequately driving the vaccination rate which highly contributed to mitigating the spread of the pandemic.

[New Times] Auditor General, Alex Kamuhire, on May 12 tabled his annual report to a joint parliamentary session where he said that overall irregular expenditure reduced by 43 per cent from Rwf5.7 billion in 2020 to Rwf3.2 billion in 2021.

[White House] Washington, DC -- On May 12, under the leadership of the United States, Belize, Germany, Indonesia, and Senegal, global leaders from across the world's economies, civil society, and the private sector gathered for the 2nd Global COVID-1...

[New Times] Juvénal Mvukiyehe, the president of topflight league side SC Kiyovu, has played down rumours that head coach Francis Haringingo was arrested as 'a distraction' ahead of their league clash against APR.

[New Times] The Minister of Education Dr. Valentine Uwamariya has said that Rwanda is trying to embark on smart education by setting up a platform with fast internet particularly for the education sector, building from an existing fiber optic network...

[New Times] SC Kiyovu FC will have to do what they failed to do in the past matches to secure a win against defending champions APR FC on Saturday afternoon in the second leg of the Rwanda premier league at Kigali Stadium.

[New Times] The Rwanda Table Tennis Federation is in advanced talks with Cédric Rouleau over a possibility to become the new national table tennis team coach, Weekend Sport can confirm.

[New Times] Construction plans of a drainage and sewer to contain flooding around the areas of Lake Kivu are underway.

[New Times] Regional integration is generally meant to bridge gaps of scarce resources, establish physical, economic, or any other connectivity, and sharing of capacity, knowledge, data, and best practices among member countries.

[New Times] When HIV broke out in the 1980s, thousands of people had only a few weeks or months from diagnosis to death. But that is if they even managed to be diagnosed before they died, according to the World Health Organisation.

[New Times] Rwanda Energy Group (REG) Basketball Club will take on Qatar in their last warm-up game today in Istanbul, Turkey.

[New Times] 3D printing machines are expected to start being assembled in Rwanda in the next six months, according to Danny Bizimana, Country Manager of Fablab Rwanda, a local innovation hub.

[New Times] National Bank of Rwanda has maintained the key repo rate--at which it lends to commercial banks-- at 5 per cent and said domestic economic growth is likely to slow down.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- MARA, a Pan-African crypto exchange, launched on Wednesday and announced USD23 million Shs2.7billion in funding and a partnership with the Central African Republic, which just passed a bill legalizing Bitcoin as legal tender.

[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- The Cameroon-headquartered Bank of Central African States (BEAC) has urged the Central African Republic (CAR) to annul a law it passed in late April that made the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender. The bank warned in a le...

[Daily News] CRDB Bank Burundi is looking ahead to further consolidate its position in Bujumbura as it marks 10 years of operations later this year.

[New Times] Rwanda volleyball federation (FRVB) will hold its extraordinary general assembly on Saturday, May 14 to discuss among other things, their annual competitions.

[New Times] IT will be a tough test for AS Kigali head coach Andre Casa Mbungo when he faces his former club Police FC in the semifinal of this year's Peace Cup tournament on Thursday at Kigali Stadium.

[New Times] Local and foreign athletes still have two weeks to register for the forthcoming 17th edition of the Kigali International Peace Marathon slated for May 29.