Central Africa

The government of Rwanda has closed down a total of 714 churches in different parts of the country's capital Kigali for failure to meet minimum standards for their operations.

The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is expected to visit the Democratic Republic of Congo later this year before anticipated and overdue elections.

There is mounting pressure on the Congolese President Joseph Kabila to resign after he was blamed for his country’s humanitarian and security crisis.

The United Nations has said that at least two people were killed and dozens more injured on Sunday during anti-Kabila protests.

Five refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been killed during a protest over a cut in food rations in Rwanda.

A Congolese humanitarian worker, kidnapped at the weekend in the troubled east of Democratic Republic of Congo by an armed group that killed two of his colleagues, has been freed, his NGO said on Tuesday.

Six soldiers died in fighting to repel an incursion by Rwandan troops in eastern Democratic of Republic of Congo this week, the army announced on Friday.

About 200 000 people have been displaced in ethnic clashes since mid-December in the northeastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a humanitarian source told AFP on Tuesday.

A radio station in Rwanda has been shutdown for denigrating women after a sermon was aired reportedly vilifying women.

Separatist fighters in Cameroon killed three soldiers and wounded four others during an attack overnight in the English-speaking Southwest region, two military sources and a separatist commander said on Sunday.