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[DW] Around 43% of the population, or 3.4 billion people, live with a neurological disease worldwide. Why are rates highest in Africa, and how are nations tackling the issue?

President Museveni has denied speculation that he is grooming his son as his successor.

[New Times] Rwanda's Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta and his Congolese counterpart Christophe Lutundula on Thursday, March 21, met in the Angolan capital Luanda for high-level consultations meant to analyse the issue of security and peace in eastern DR Congo, the Angolan ministry of foreign affairs said on Friday.

[New Times] The Africa Food Systems (AFS) Forum in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) will host the official launch of the Africa Food Systems Annual Summit 2024, on March 26, at the Kigali International Convention Center (KCC). AFS is the world's premier forum for African agriculture and food systems, bringing together stakeholders to take practical action and share lessons that will move African food systems forward. The summit will be held from September 2 to 6, 2024, in

[New Times] Kenya's government will limit the use of popular Chinese social media platform TikTok by government officials in order to protect sensitive data as well as the security of Kenyans, The East African reports.

[New Times] Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday, March 21, appointed Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba as the Chief of Defence Forces of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF).

[New Times] The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) has apprehended Patrick Niyigena, an official with the Ministry of Youth and Arts responsible for business innovation and talent development.

Markus Jooste dies one day after being ordered to pay a $25m fine for accounting fraud in South Africa.

[MSF] An evaluation report released today by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charts progress towards decentralizing services for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal's King Cetshwayo District (KCD), in line with the country's 2011 DR-TB decentralization policy.

[Nile Post] President Museveni on Thursday evening named his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and his son's two most loyal backers of the last couple years as State ministers.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Deputy president Rigathi Gachagua has said the government will work with church leaders in the ongoing fight against illicit brews.

[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia has planned to import over 400,000 e-vehicles as a means to realize sustainable transportation, Ministry of Transport and Logistics (MoTL) disclosed.

[Premium Times] "Our armed forces are working hard, and we will not allow attackers to undermine the integrity and value of our armed forces."

[Ghanaian Times] The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has placed on ice the approval or otherwise of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's new set of ministerial nominees.

[Ghanaian Times] The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has described as "contemptuous of Parliament" for the decision by the Office of the President not to receive the passed Proper Human Rights and Family Values Bill, 2021.

[allAfrica] One hundred and forty-two years after its discovery, Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global public health problem. Despite being preventable and curable, 1.3 million people died from TB in 2022, 424,000 of them in Africa and 54,200 of them in South Africa alone. Statistically, that means one life was lost to TB every 10 minutes in South Africa during that period. It is noteworthy that TB caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the world's leading cause of death from an infectious disease

Their rivalry underpins a big divide in the nation, regarded as a beacon of West African democracy.

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe recorded 188 cases of human right violations in February alone with ruling party Zanu PF functionaries perpetrating in most of the recorded cases.

[New Zimbabwe] The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has warned couples, who entered into holy matrimony through civil marriages, to urgently regularise their incorrectly captioned certificates as they cite an invalid law.

[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Tom Periello called for "formal" talks to help bring an end to the escalating violence in war-torn Sudan, following repeated warnings by UN agencies that neglect could be "catastrophic". Periello, who the Biden Administration named to lead the U.S. peace efforts, said during a press conference that he was looking to have all-inclusive talks with key regional actors, "as well as key voices from the inside".