Serious fighting has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province and in the neighbouring district of Ituri, with thousands of civilians displaced, and others cut off, amid claims that foreign troops had deployed in parts of the east.

The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has not been able to confirm persistent reports of incursions by Rwandan troops into the eastern part of the vast country where they are said to be fighting alongside rebels.

A former top Rwandan official has pleaded not guilty to ten counts of genocide and other crimes at the United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the 1994 mass killings in the small Great Lakes nation.

After years of concentrating on power generation, government has turned its focus on rolling-out power transmission in a bid to increase connectivity.

Amb. Richard Sezibera, the President's Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, has said that claims by Atoki Ileka, the Democratic Republic of Congo's UN envoy on Wednesday are ridiculous.

A delegation from Japan is in the country to talk technology, and more specifically, technology to utilise banana stems and convert them into textile.

The East African Community (EAC) Common Market negotiators have failed to agree on unresolved issues from last months' third round talks in Bujumbura, Burundi.

THE Patriotic Front (PF), if elected into power, has pledged to put up an oil pipeline from Angola to Zambia's North-Western Province and a refinery to supplement Indeni Oil Refinery in addressing fuel shortages.

THE UN Peace Keeping Mission in the DR Congo (MONUC) has called for a joint strategy to deal with the Lord's Resistance Army and the Allied Democratic Force (ADF) rebel groups.

Captain Innocent Sagahutu, accused of genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), will begin his defence on 20 October, the last of the four defendants of the "Military II" case, reports Hirondelle Agency.

The Appeals Court of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has upheld decision of the Lower Court to deny Prosecutor's request to transfer genocide accused former businessman, 73-year-old Yusuf Munyakazi, to stand a trial in Kigali as part of the UN Court's completion strategy.

Romeo Dallaire, former military head of the United Nations at the time of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, will take part on 14 October in a conference organized at the University of Montreal on the topic: "From Rwanda to Darfur; the Work of Peacekeepers and the Role of the Media".

A former Rwandan cabinet minister wanted for war crimes committed during the 1994 genocide in the African state has been transferred to Arusha, Tanzania, after a prolonged about one-year legal battle in Germany.

An $8.6 million grant to enhance agricultural production and provide food security for poor people in rural areas of the Republic of Congo was announced today by the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Bafana Bafana has arrived safely in Equatorial Guinea. The South African team was forced to travel without security personnel and the media officer, following the refusal by the Equatorial Guinea embassy to grant the support staff visas.

The head of the Angolan Navy (MGA)'s department for Ships and Weapons System, Francisco Maria Manuel, defended last Thursday in Luanda the need for a continuous elevation of the three branches of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), aimed at an integral accomplishment of their tasks.

The Angolan writer Roderick Nehone released last Thursday a book of tales entitled "Uma bÃ'ia na tormenta", which talks about the Angolan daily life, particularly the country's capital city.

The caretaker manager of the Angolan national senior males football team, Mabi de Almeida, highlighted as main concern the improvement of the defensive Sector, in order to achieve a positive result on Sunday's match against Niger, in Luandas's Coqueiros stadium.

The cry for a better status for women has never been more urgent than recently, especially in Cameroon.

Daniel Ngom Kome, who trades his football know-how at Tenerife, Spain, and Eric Njemba Njemba, who is at OB, Denmark, are back into the Indomitable Lions squad.

Representatives of civil society, the media, faith-based organisations, public officers and parliamentarians from Cameroon, Central and Francophone West African countries have noted with regret that the hoarding of information by government officials negatively affects the socio-economic and political growth of a nation.

Indomitable Lions Coach, Otto Pfister has admitted that there is enormous pressure on him in his selection of players.

Sunday, October 5, teachers in Cameroon once more joined their counterparts the world over to celebrate World's Teachers Day. The theme of this year's celebration was "Rights and Obligations of Teachers."

Dr. Kenneth Nsor Nsor, Nigerian Consul General to the Southwest and Northwest Provinces, has called on Nigerian nationals living in Bui Division to be responsible and take initiatives before appealing for assistance.

In a move to stem the harmful effects of contaminated Chinese milk, mothers in Cameroon have been advised to breastfeed their children as recommended by reproductive health officials.