Central Africa News

[New Times] Activists have called for inclusivity of people living with disability, especially women, in fighting against Gender Based Violence (GBV).

[Scrolla] Cameroon may have crashed out in Qatar but they leave with a victory over five-time winners Brazil.

[VOA] Goma -- Democratic Republic of Congo rebels with the March 23 Movement, known as M23, have denied the military's accusation they carried out a massacre of civilians as a truce between the sides has broken down.

[Premium Times] Switzerland secured the last ticket into the knockout phase at the ongoing World Cup in Qatar.

[UNFPA in WCA] Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1 December 2022 -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Sierra Leone this week hosted a high-level delegation from its Regional Office in Dakar and Headquarters in New York led by the Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Ms. Argentina Matavel Piccin, the Director of the Technical Division Dr. Julitta Onabanjo and the Director of the Policy and Strategy Division Mr. Arthur Erken.

[AFSA] Yaoundé, Cameroon; 30 November 2022 -- Diverse actors from 30 countries call for a comprehensive Africa Food Policy that addresses Africa's need to feed itself in the face of global uncertainty and climate change.

[New Times] Athanase Karemangingo, a community health care worker in Kayonza district, says he monitors 105 households in his village of Karama, Nyamirama sector.

[New Times] The reemergence of the M23 group in eastern Democratic Republic of Cong after a decade of inaction has, once more, raised heated debate about Congo's security fiasco in the region. Many analysts and political commentators seem to believe and advance Kinshasa's main line of argument which is that Rwanda, mainly, and Uganda, to some extent, are directly involved in destabilizing the Congo's eastern region in an attempt to steal the country's mineral resources. Believing this narrative stems from a point of t

[New Times] As Rwanda's sports sector grows, there is need for sports organisations to develop anti-sexual harassment policies, officials say.

[RFI] Pope Francis I has rescheduled his long-delayed trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan for 31 January to 5 February 2023 - cutting out a stop over in the troubled eastern DRC, but fulfilling a long-held wish to accompany other Christian leaders to South Sudan.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola's minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Diamantino Azevedo, said Wednesday that the national oil industry, as the main driver of economic diversification and protagonist of the energy transition in the country, should lead the migration process to clean energy.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angolan President, João Lourenço, on Thursday reiterated the government's commitment to administrative decentralization, with the aim of minimizing regional asymmetries.

[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroonian health workers and people with HIV marched for World AIDS Day on December 1, calling for access to treatment for patients in conflict areas.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- National Oil Company Sonangol has started construction of the second oil tanker to strengthen its fleet , ANGOP learnt on Wednesday.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola has announced plans to create two more provinces aimed to raise the number to 20 and 581 municipalities by 2024, the Presidency's Office announced at the end of the meeting of Cabinet Council that approved the preliminary proposal for Political-Administrative Division on Wednesday.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Four jails will start operating this year to reduce the overcrowding in the country-based facilities, the director general of the Prison Service has announced.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Angolan government is carrying out programmes to ensure satisfactory levels of human dignity for the prison population, the Secretary of State for the Interior José Paulino da Silva said Thursday.

[Africa Renewal] Statement by Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, who is deeply alarmed about the escalation of violence in the Great Lakes Region

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Cabinet Council under the guidance of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, analyzed Wednesday the preliminary version of the Administrative Political Division draft law, which aims mainly at clarifying the inter-municipal and inter-provincial border limits.

[Premium Times] The suspected trafficker had been arrested, says an official.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Cabinet Council assessed Wednesday the preliminary version of the proposal for the Political and Administrative Division Law, a diploma that aims, fundamentally, to clarify the inter-municipal and inter-provincial border limits.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- National MMA Team compete for the first time in the Senior Mixed Martial Arts Amateur World Championship, to be held from February 12 to 20, 2023, in Serbia.

[DW] Young Cameroonians living with HIV are fighting to end the stigma associated with the virus. Many patients still lack access to life-saving anti-retroviral drugs.

[VOA] Abuja -- Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari says the war between Russia and Ukraine is allowing arms and fighters to stream into the Lake Chad region, bolstering the strength of terrorist groups.

[RFI] A fresh round of EAC-led talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and armed militia operational in the eastern DRC has opened in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi without, however, the presence of the M23 Tutsi rebel group that Kinshasa says is being supported by Kigali.

[New Times] Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called on the Government to consider more participation of citizens in the process to set taxes so that they are based on their capacity to pay, and respond better to priority needs.

[Nile Post] President Museveni believes the insecurity in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has to a larger extent been perpetuated by the presence of illegal guns that have been circulating within the country since independence.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola celebrates on 1 December, 2022 its 46th anniversary as a full member of the United Nations, boasting a status of a strong and active country, with notable achievements in the political and diplomatic affairs.

[State Department] The United States commends the people of Equatorial Guinea who exercised their right to vote on November 20. We note, however, that international election observers, civil society groups, and opposition parties have made credible allegations of significant election-related irregularities, including documented instances of fraud, intimidation, and coercion. These allegations include restrictions on the ability of representatives of political parties to access polling stations, repeat voting, pre-filling of

[CFR] A looming crisis of succession in several African countries indicates a troubling persistence of ego-driven political paternalism.