(Over the weekend, Camp Kigali was a hive of activity in readiness to host the World Economic Forum for Africa which is set to kick off on Wednesday this week.)

(Protesters angered by a change in municipal boundaries which they fear will leave them worse off for social services torched 13 schools in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province on Thursday, police said, as tensions rise ahead of local elections in August.)

(People with albinism in Malawi are at risk of “systemic extinction” due to relentless attacks fuelled by superstitions, the United Nations’ top expert on albinism said this week during her first official visit in her new role.)

(La Cour de cassation de Ouagadougou a annulé le mandat d’arrêt international lancé par la justice militaire contre l’ex-président burkinabé Blaise Compaoré et le président de l’assemblée nationale de Côte d’Ivoire Guillaume Soro, a-t-on appris jeudi de source judiciaire à Ouagadougou.)

(AT ministerial level, Uganda has chosen Tanga Port in Tanzania as the suitable route to export its crude oil from Hoima given approving scientific reasons put forward by technical teams in Kampala)

(The 5th Tana Forum on security in Africa ended Sunday with deliberations on a range of issues related to peace and security on the continent.)

(UNICEF said on Tuesday that the number of children used as suicide bombers across the Lake Chad region has risen 10-fold since 2014, adding that 75 percent of these minors had been girls.)

(The African Union (AU) has called on all African countries to investigate persons and companies implicated in the Panama Papers leak.)

(The White House issued a statement from President Barack Obama on Thursday, the 22nd anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide.)

(Des milliers d’habitants du sud de Brazzaville ont fui leurs quartiers lundi après plusieurs heures d’échanges de tirs et de canonnades provoqués selon le gouvernement congolais par une attaque menée par un nombre indéterminé d’hommes armés contre des bâtiments publics.)