[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of January 27, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 3,475,174.

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa says poor countries desperately need COVID-19 vaccines as much as other nations that have already started vaccinating their citizens.

[Chatham House] While the Arab Spring is not over, the moment of 2011 is.

[SAnews.gov.za] Government on Tuesday launched the Tourism Equity Fund aimed at creating an inclusive and growing tourism sector by supporting entrepreneurship and investment on the supply side of the tourism sector.

[The Herald] Mukudzei Chingwere and Freedom Mupanedemo

[Premium Times] The host communities demand 10 per cent of equity shareholding because they said they bear the brunt of the negative impacts of oil exploration.

[The Conversation Africa] Pirate attacks against merchant ships off the African coast have been reported regularly over the past decade. And despite measures to suppress it, Somalia-based piracy remains a concern. On the other side of the continent, ...

[The Conversation Africa] The coronavirus pandemic has gone hand-in-hand with considerable democratic backsliding. According to a new study, democratic freedoms were undermined in 83 countries from March to September 2020. This should concern all of ...

[Premium Times] The president praised the officials for their "overwhelming achievements in our efforts at bringing enduring peace to our dear country."

[Nation] Somalia's federal government has officially lifted the ban on importation of miraa (khat) from Kenya but imposed certain conditions for the commodity to be admitted on its territory.

[Nation] A new HIV drug which could see patients stop taking daily antiretroviral therapy drugs has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

[UN News] UN agencies are ramping up efforts on Tuesday to help communities in Mozambique hit hard by Tropical Cyclone Eloise, which barrelled through the country just three weeks after the devastating Tropical Storm Chalane.

[RFI] Monrovia -- Liberian President George Weah proposed several economic policies and legislative reforms during his 4th State of the Nation Address in Monrovia on Monday, in an effort to address the country's worsening economic situation.

[DW] Kinshasa's parliament is expected to pass a vote of no confidence against DR Congo's prime minister. It's President Tshisekedi's latest attempt to rid himself of an onerous coalition. But his problems are far from over.

[Nation] Somalia is yet again accusing Kenya of territorial violations. The country's Federal Government officials on Monday claimed they had "confirmed" Kenya had trained and armed fighters from the Jubbaland state government, who then tried to atta...

[Nation] Ethiopia on Tuesday set a pre-condition outlining what it wants if it is to engage in negotiations with Sudan over their border dispute.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Abuja -- Nearly 14 million young people are out of work in Nigeria, where oil wealth has enriched a small elite but failed to create jobs during the pandemic

[The Conversation Africa] The 51st World Economic Forum starts on January 25, but with a major difference. Whereas this is famously the annual gathering at the Davos ski resort in Switzerland of global leaders from business, government and civil soci...

[ISS] Since it started nine years ago, the Sahel security crisis has claimed tens of thousands of lives, forcibly displaced millions, and triggered record levels of food shortages. Last year alone it claimed nearly 6 500 lives in Burkina Faso, Mali a...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] U.S. climate envoy John Kerry and others say poorest will suffer the most from a failure to build resilience, but concrete progress is slow to come

[Monitor] One person has been confirmed dead and two others seriously injured after soldiers attached to the Special Force Command (SFC) opened fire at protestors at Central market along the Old Kampala road in Entebbe.

[Nation] Infamous ivory, rhinoceros horn poacher and drug trafficker Abubakar Mansur Mohammed Surur alias Mansour was extradited from Kenya to New York over the weekend, coming just months after he was arrested at Moi International airport.

[Daily Maverick] Away from home, migrants in South Africa have been hard hit by the impact of Covid-19 and a resurgence of xenophobia.

[East African] A Rwandan court has adjourned the trial of "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina after his lawyers failed to meet him to discuss his case, officials say.

[This Day] Kaduna -- A Kaduna State High Court yesterday ordered the state Correctional Centre to move the wife of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shiite, Zeenat El-Zakzaky, to a government isolation centre to commen...

[HRW] Addis Ababa -- The African Union has yet to set up a Trust Fund to compensate victims of the former Chadian president Hissène Habré, four years after his historic conviction in Senegal, a coalition of international and regional human rights o...

[spotlight] A Chinese cohort study published earlier this month in The Lancet medical journal found that over 75 percent of patients that were previously hospitalised with COVID-19 had at least one lingering symptom six months later.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Vale is pulling out of Tete as part of its climate emergency commitment to end coal production. Several announcements last week set out a complex planned withdrawal.

[New Frame] In Joburg's inner city, existing political fault lines are providing fertile ground for the spread of misinformation, with vaccine scepticism taking hold.

[GhanaToday] The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday paid his last respect to late ex-president Jerry John Rawlings.