[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of January 29, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 3,516,781 .

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Tom Bowker, journalist and editor of the respected Zitamar newsletter, has been ordered to leave the country by Saturday. The expulsion is entirely unofficial - there is nothing in writing. Tom is British and...

[263Chat] Government has extended the current 30 day COVID-19 lockdown by a further two weeks to the 15th of February 2021, vice President Constantino Chiwenga has announced.

[East African] Two dwarf giraffes have been spotted in separate populations in Uganda and Namibia, according to a paper published in BMC Research Notes by researchers from the Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF). It is the first known account of dw...

[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists] Publisher Moussa Aksar was targeted as his reporting on millions in disappearing defense spending was submitted in a request to force a government inquiry.

[East African] Australian think tank Lowy Institute has placed Rwanda in sixth place in managing the Covid-19 pandemic and for making its information about the pandemic publicly accessible.

[Nation] The economy is officially in recession, the latest data has revealed, reflecting the pain unleashed by the global Covid-19 pandemic that triggered a near complete shutdown for most of last year.

[East African] A Zimbabwean High Court judge on Wednesday released prominent journalist Hopewell Chin'ono on bail after he spent nearly three weeks in jail for allegedly communicating falsehoods.

[This Day] The United Kingdom Government has exempted Nigeria from a list of 30 countries that have been banned from entering the UK over rising COVID-19 cases.

[This Day] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Nigeria's capital spending will improve this year while anticipating that financing the country's deficit will remain a challenge with its huge debt servicing burden.

[MAP] Rabat -- The Covid-19 vaccination operation of healthcare professionals started Thursday evening in Rabat, in a climate of mobilization and strong desire to ensure the success of this national campaign, according to the prioritization criteria ...

[The Herald] Henrietta Rushwaya's accomplices, Stephen Tserai, Raphios Mufandauya and Gift Karanda, who are facing allegations of attempting to smuggle gold out of the country, were today freed on $30 000 bail each.

[African Arguments] Analysis of Rwanda's survey data reveals interesting findings about the country's youth, including a mysterious anomaly.

[IPS] United Nations -- Over 100,000 concerned petitioners have urged the Namibian government to scrap its plan to auction off 170 wild elephants -- which include rare desert-adapted elephants -- but the country's Ministry of Environment, Forestry an...

[UNFPA] New York / Washington DC -- The President of the United States today announced his intention to restore US funding to UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.

[DW] The energy giant will have to pay four Nigerian farmers compensation and start a cleanup over pollution caused by leaking oil pipelines in the Niger Delta.

[AI London] Prison officials in Egypt are subjecting prisoners of conscience and others held for political reasons to torture and deliberately denying them healthcare to punish their dissent, Amnesty International said in a damning new report today, ...

[MSF] In the last two years, the unrest in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have found refuge on the other side of the border between North and South Kivu, where they share limited reso...

[AIM] Maputo -- At least 5,500 families, affected by Cyclone Eloise, which hit central Mozambique last Saturday, are cut off from the rest of the country in Save locality, Machaze district, in Manica province.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) last Saturday arrested a man in possession of 66 kilos of illegal drugs (heroin and methamphetamine) on a beach outside the northern port city of Nacala.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Nampula Provincial Court in northern Mozambique on Thursday sentenced two members of the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR - the Mozambican Riot Police) for murdering a member of the Nampula Municipal Police on 29 July last year.

[CISA] Goma -- A joint mission by the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) and the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), has revealed that people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are living in great suff...

[Namibia Economist] With more than 50% of all new daily Infections of Covid19 on the continent being reported in the SADC region, health systems are rapidly reaching the limit of their capacities and the situation is expected to worsen in the short t...

[263Chat] The Southern African Development Committee (SADC) has urged member states to strengthen individual health systems while intensifying co-operation and collaborations to fight COVID-19 pandemic in a more effective way.

[Africa Renewal] African countries need strong policy actions and further support from the international community in averting a debt crisis and protracted low growth

[263Chat] Retail giant-OK Zimbabwe Limited is confident of a healthy cashflow in fourth quarter amid the possibility of a lockdown extension to shorten business hours, the Group said in its latest trading update for the nine months to December 2020, ...

[Public Agenda] President Nana Akufo-Addo will on Thursday submit to Parliament the list of his proposed Ministers and Regional Ministers to the Speaker of Parliament.

[Namibian] Air Namibia's board has pleaded with the government for a N$95 million bailout, but the state appears to have allowed a private company to shut down the airline through the courts.

[Namibian] President Hage Geingob will meet his Botswana counterpart Mokgweetsi Masisi today to discuss various bilateral issues including the management and security of the border between the two countries.

[Namibian] Trial-awaiting inmates at the Wanaheda Police Station's holding cells have raised concerns over what they call deplorable conditions in the cells, with no proper sanitation facilities.