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Monseigneur Joachim Ntahondereye Bujumbura – The Episcopal Conference of Burundi has said the elections results announced on Monday are cooked up, as the polls were mired with fraud. Monseigneur Joachim Ntahondereye said on Tuesday in Bujumbura that the Catholic Church had 2,700 observers, which was a small number, but sufficient…

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina says his country’s herbal remedy for COVID-19 has gained the support of the World Health Organization, WHO. Rajoelina made this known on Twitter where he revealed that WHO will be signing a “confidentiality clause” concerning the formulation of the drug. What this means is that Madagascar…

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke Monday made during of the opening of the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) via video link Despite fierce opposition from the United States, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday his country will “accelerate” the construction of the Africa Centres for Disease Control…

The Kagitumba One Stop Border Post, known as Mirama Hills in Uganda, where the said COVID-19 positive patient was intercepted Ugandan security and medical staff trampled on truck driver immediately he crossed from Rwanda into Uganda on Sunday evening. All dressed up in heavy personal protective equipment, the team stopped…

Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has this Sunday issued more bombshell announcements at a church service – the latest place for his addresses – some of which are causing shivers across the region and globally. Magufuli speaking at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania at…

Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli and Burundi’s Pierre Nkurunziza did not attend a virtual summit of the East African Community (EAC) this Tuesday. Hosted by Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame as current EAC chair, the other leaders Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Salva Kiir of South Sudan and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, were…

Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli has publicly questioned the tests and also fired the head of national laboratory The UK Government will look for a refund for millions of coronavirus tests ordered from China after scientists found they were too unreliable to be used by the public. Ministers will attempt…

President John Pombe Magufuli Coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania were dismissed as faulty by President John Magufuli on Sunday, because he said they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw. Magufuli, whose government has already drawn criticism for being secretive about the coronavirus…

United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ahunna Eziakonwa, talks to Africa Renewal’s Kingsley Ighobor on COVID-19, its impact on African economies and how the UN is assisting. Here are excerpts: What is the impact of COVID-19 on…

DR Congo side of Petit Barriere, one of two border posts between Rubavu district (Rwanda) and Goma of DRC. Rwanda’s side is completely closed except for cargo Some 253 Congolese nationals were on Sunday granted special permission to exit from Rwanda whose borders have been closed as part of COVID-19…

On the other side, separated by a small portion of Lake Kivu, is Bukavu town in DR Congo New control measures against spread of the COVID-19 virus may have to be introduced in Rwanda’s Rusizi district after confirmation of two cases just across the border in DR Congo. Congo’s biomedical…

Government in Rwanda now says Burundi did not block its nationals studying in Rwanda, instead it is the students who refused to go home. Claudette Irere, Minister of State for ICT and TVET in the Ministry of Education says when schools were closed in Rwanda on Sunday, some Burundian students…

Most of those being rounded up by DRC security crackdown are women and children On March 7, 2018, Rwandan border officials at the Ruzisi border with DR Congo’s Bukavu town began seeing streams of desperate people with their belongings. They were mainly woman, children and elderly. It took several hours…

Students have been provided free buses to return home. All students including those in boarding schools must be home by this Monday evening Burundi has completely closed its border with Rwanda, which has prevented Burundian students studying in Rwanda from going back home. The education ministry told local media that…

Christophe Bazivamo (in red necktie), the EAC Deputy Secretary General in charge of Productive and Social Sectors, received the kits on Friday on behalf of the region. The East African Community secretariat has obtained state-of-the-art diagnostic kits that can test and confirm deadly viruses including the COVID-19 or the coronavirus.…

A Senegalese Police Unit of MONUSCO patrols around an IDP camp in Bunia, northeastern DR Congo. In the southeastern part of the country, NGOs accuse MONUSCO (Courtesy photo) Local NGOs operating in Minembwe region of South Kivu where up to 55,000 Banyamulenge are displaced say they are unable to deliver…

With Ugandan flags and placards, and in ruling NRM party yellow colors, supporters of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni lined the highway between Kabale town and Gatuna border. In choreographed act, thousands of Ugandans from Kabale district lined the route chanting praise songs for their President Yoweri Museveni as he headed…

This is what South Sudan looked like before President Salva Kiir’s government increased the States to 28, and later 32. South Sudanese government has agreed to the last remaining hurdle, opening way for a peace deal to be signed within the coming days as dictated by regional grouping IGAD, meaning…

At the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organisation for African Unity/African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa in May 2013, African heads of state and government unveiled ‘Africa’s Agenda 2063’ – a 50-year plan to foster sustainable and inclusive economic growth and development across the continent. | Implicit in…

The current South Sudan which the government wants to protect, but the opposition is fiercely against South Sudan may be subdivided again, for the third time into new states, as protagonists fail to agree on a regional mechanism aimed at silencing the guns in the war ravaged and famine ridden…

Inside the IGAD Summit in Ethiopia. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is seated on same row with Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni (to the extreme) Before traveling to Ethiopia for the 33rd African Union Summit which took place this Sunday, South Sudan President directed the finance ministry to transfer money to each…

From Left clockwise: Presidents Kagame, Tshisekedi, Lourenço and Museveni met for 4 hours this Sunday in Angola President Paul Kagame and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni, will hold another round of talks in three weeks time, at the Katuna border post, as they continue to seek ways of resolving sticking…

Etienne Tshisekedi (L) was in opposition for DRC’s entire post-independence era. His son Felix became President from a scheme that has kept predecessor Joseph Kabila not far from power. It is now emerging Tshisekedi senior was actually in some relationship with Kabila The late father of DR Congo President Felix…

With the exception of 2 lawmakers who were absent in Parliament, all MPs voted unanimously for the new regime granting special status to Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza will have a special status in society with title of “Guide du Patriotisme” (loosely as Patriotism Guide), along with…

Gen Kale Kayihura, former Uganda Police chief arrested over alleged kidnap and deportation of Rwandan refugees. A military court in Kampala, Uganda has on Monday surprisingly granted bail to four senior police officers after nearly two year in jail for among other charges, the kidnap and deportation of Rwandan refugees.…

President Felix Tshisekedi meets Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo in photos released by the DRC Presidency Head of the DR Congo Catholic Church Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo on Monday held talks with President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa – coming on the heals of major fallout. Tshisekedi’s office said in a statement that they…

This banner in Beni put up by FARDC reads: “No to balkanization of my country, Yes to national unity! I am FARDC” DR Congo military has in a carefully worded statement joined the Catholic Church – also evoking a plan by “malicious people” to break off part of the country’s…

Pope Francis meets Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa at the Vatican during a previous visit The head of the Catholic Church in DR Congo has claimed the conflict and terror being inflicted on people in eastern Congo is aimed to break them so they submit to foreign occupation.…

They had babies and everything they owned with them as they were handed to Rwandan officials on Saturday DR Congo military on Saturday early morning handed over nearly two thousand Rwandans via the Rusizi-Bukavu border, in southwestern Rwanda. A total of 1,900 were repatriated including 71 combatants and the rest…

On Monday morning, 291 CNRD combatants and their commanders were handed over to RDF at Rusizi border by DRC army. These however left behind their families The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says 17 people, including nine children, have died in camp where Rwandan rebels and their dependants…