[allAfrica] My name is Nandege and I am a peacemaker. I come from the village of Homiri in Chukudum county, South Sudan, where most of the population of some 150,000 people are subsistence farmers, just like my mother. When I was 24, I brokered peace between two communities who had fought each other for decades over cattle thefts that often turned violent, to the extent that people were killed. It was destroying livelihoods and the communities.

[allAfrica] Welcome to allAfrica's Silencing The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. I'm Mantsadi Sepheka from allAfrica. And today our focus is South Sudan.Africa's youngest independent state has been plagued by chronic instability since gaining its independence a decade ago. civil society groups have called on the country's government to step down as South Sudan deals with what Amnesty International is calling a new wave of repression. Now in this wave of repression, authorities are targeti

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Kenyan footballer Victor Wanyama announced his retirement from international soccer, with these words on Twitter:

[New Times] Rugamba, his wife and six children were killed during the Genocide against the Tutsi.

[CAJ News] The dust has settled on the ethnic clashes that recently left at least 12 people dead in northern Cameroon but humanitarian needs are escalating.

[New Times] Le Collectif des parties civiles pour le Rwanda (CPCR), a civil society body based in France has implored the French government not to welcome the remains of the top genocide architect Col Théoneste Bagosora who succumbed to a disease in a Malian prison on Saturday, September 25.

[Africa Magic] With the Finale fast approaching, it is only expected many will be Evicted in order to get the required number of finalists. Keep reading to find out who survived this week's torturing Eviction and who made it to the top 5. But first, we'll look at how the Live Eviction show played out tonight.

[New Times] Rugamba, his wife and six children were killed during the Genocide against the Tutsi.

[New Times] Le Collectif des parties civiles pour le Rwanda (CPCR), a civil society body based in France has implored the French government not to welcome the remains of the top genocide architect Col Théoneste Bagosora who succumbed to a disease in a Malian prison on Saturday, September 25.

[Daily Trust] The location of Radio Biafra, an internet radio station owned the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been identified in London.

[Premium Times] President Muhammadu Buhari on September 16 forwarded two letters to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Thousands of protesters, including politicians and civil society actors on Sunday rallied in front of the Municipal Theatre in Tunis to denounce the exceptional measures decreed on July 25 by President Kais Saied, describing them as a «coup» as well as the presidential decree No. 2021-117, considering it an attempt by the Head of State to seize all powers. The protesters, whose number is estimated at between 3 and 4 thousand, according to security sources, called for the deposition of President Kais Saied

[Monitor] Paul Kagame has presided over Rwanda for decades and managed to keep it stable, earning himself the name «Rwanda's strongman».

[The Conversation Africa] In little more than a year from the onset of COVID-19, scientists successfully developed vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus for world-wide use.

[Ayin English] Tensions in the capital and eastern Sudan have pitted the country's civilian politicians and military to near breaking point this past week as accusations and counteraccusations follow an alleged coup in Khartoum and ongoing protests in Eastern Sudan.

[Dalsan Radio] Puntland state leader Said Abdullahi Deni has called on President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble to end the political dispute.

[VOA] Tunis, Tunisia -- More than 100 officials of Tunisia's Islamist party Ennahda announced their resignations Saturday to protest the choices of the movement's leadership in confronting the North African country's political crisis.

[Africa CDC] Director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr John Nkengasong, and Head of the Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team, Strive Masiyiwa to Address Vaccine Equity and Production Needs to Tackle COVID-19. Ms Bonang Matheba and Nomzamo Mbatha to are set to host th Global Citizen Live on the Great Lawn in Central Park on Sept. 25, 2021.

[East African] Rwanda hit the September global target of fully vaccinating 10 percent of its 12.9 million population against Covid-19 and is among countries recommended by the European Union to have unrestricted access for non-essential travel its territory.

[Nation] President Paul Kagame has praised the Rwandan troops deployed to fight insurgents in Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique for their good work fighting insurgents.

[East African] Rwanda has pushed back against criticism of the court verdict in the conclusion of the seven-monthlong trial of Paul Rusesabagina at Nyarugenge Court of Justice in Kigali. Rusesabagina was found guilty and handed a 25-year jail term.

[New Times] Construction of a model green city in Kinyinya sector, Gasabo District is expected to start in 2023, officials have said, following a prolonged bleak outlook.

[Cameroon Tribune] If nature cannot adapt to the whims and caprices of man, then it is left for man to readjust to the exigencies of nature. This is one of the main challenges environmentalists have not stopped reminding the population about. The inhabitants of some major cities and towns in Cameroon are surely experiencing the consequences of such failure to adapt to nature's intrinsic values. Climatic variations coupled with this year's rainy season have been dealing a big blow on the population of the Littoral region in p

[East African] Rwanda's President Paul Kagame arrived in Mozambique Friday for a two-day state.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- It is a constitutional right for every Ugandan to have access to information but this provision of the Constitution has been breached by the prolonged ban on internet use and poor network coverage, MPs have noted.

[VOA] Dakar -- Former Chadian president Hissene Habre was ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars to victims of human rights abuses after his conviction by a special court in 2017. But by the time he died in August, Habre's victims had still not received a dime.

[DW] As more people flock to Cameroon's cities, they are looking to buy land and settle down. But the process is fraught with uncertainties.

[ISS] The transition process should focus on building strong, accountable institutions rather than just a government of national unity.

[allAfrica] Over 10 million children are out of school in Nigeria and the global pandemic has only made it harder for young people to stay in school. There have been dire consequences for girls, who are at-risk of being married off.

[Nation] MPs are now pushing to have Kenya Power board members sent home over procurement fights with the management as problems at the country's sole electricity distributor soar.

[VOA] Mogadishu -- Somalia's National Theater in Mogadishu held a landmark event Wednesday night, screening movies for the first time in three decades.

[allAfrica] As of September 24, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,211,300 while over  86,011,313 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[New Times] Rwanda has won the hosting rights for the 2025 UCI Road World Cycling Championships, becoming the first African country to organise the world's biggest cycling event since its inception in 1921.

[Greenpeace] Kinshasa, 23 September, 2021 --  As international donors prepare to announce a purported 1 USD billion forest protection agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the DRC government is planning to lift a moratorium on new logging concessions that threatens some of the last intact tropical forest on earth.

[East African] Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila could be in trouble after victims of his alleged misdeeds lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing him of killing or torturing their relatives.