[allAfrica] As of March 11, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  4,005,220 while 4,904,557 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[IFP] It is with the utmost grief that I inform the nation of the passing of His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini ka Bhekuzulu, King of the Zulu Nation.

[DW] The COVID pandemic has hit Africa less severely than was initially feared. But the consequences of the crisis are huge: the economic slowdown has amplified social inequality, as limited access to vaccines dampens hopes.

[Premium Times] The attack on the federal institution in Kaduna occurred in the early hours of Friday.

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's public order policing is as ill as it ever was. This has been illustrated in recent student protests spreading across the country's campuses. In Johannesburg police shot dead a pedestrian at a protest outside ...

[The Point] An adviser to the minister of Interior and a former Intelligence chief, Gibril Ngorr Secka during his recent appearance at the Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission revealed the names of 51 West African migrants, who were murder...

[HRW] European Court of Human Rights Reiterates Obligation to Investigate Alleged War Crimes

[New Times] President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame were on Thursday, March 11, vaccinated against Covid-19, a week after the country received its first consignment of the vaccines.

[East African] Guinea Bissau's former prime minister Manuel Saturnino da Costa has died following weeks of hospitalisation, his family announced on Wednesday.

[East African] Sudan and Ethiopia have disagreed on a third issue, with Khartoum now accusing Addis Ababa of arming rebels in its territory. Ethiopia has denied the allegations.

[East African] Prison authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a ban on a local watchdog group over a report on a deadly prison riot which occurred last year.

[Premium Times] An average of 10 people died daily from COVID-19 in the past week in Nigeria.

[Premium Times] The NNPC said on March 1 there was no plan to raise fuel prices.

[Nyasa Times] The much-awaited motion on the Termination of Pregnancy Bill was rejected by members of parliament on Thursday from being tabled in the House and it was removed from the revised Order Paper, an outline of business to be tackled in Parli...

[RFI] New photos from Ethiopia's Tigray region published on Thursday reveal more about the conditions thousands of people are suffering after fleeing the conflict in the country's north, as access for humanitarian aid remains difficult.

[Nairobi News] ODM leader Raila Odinga has tested positive for Covid-19. His personal physician Dr Oluoch Olunya has confirmed.

[The Conversation Africa] There was confusion in the East African grain market this week after Kenya banned maize imports from Tanzania and Uganda. The Agriculture and Food Authority said the reason for the ban was that levels of mycotoxins in the ma...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Blantyre -- The abortion bill has met strong opposition from church groups in the mainly Christian country

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nairobi -- Africa has received only 0.2% of 300 million coronavirus vaccine doses administered worldwide while Western members of the World Trade Organization seek to defend their patent rights

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Bogota -- Millions of women lost out on family planning services due to pandemic, leading to 1.4 million unplanned pregnancies, new U.N. data shows

[DW] The death toll from a fire at a garment factory, north of the Egyptian capital Cairo, has risen to 20, officials said. At least two dozen more were injured in the blaze.

[Nation] The Government of Kenya remained uncharacteristically tight-lipped about the reported presence of Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli at one of Nairobi's top private hospitals for treatment.

[Premium Times] The President apprised the meeting with efforts by the government to improve the security situation in the country.

[Premium Times] The defendant allegedly represented himself as an American citizen affected by COVID-19, and obtained $8,000 in Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) from Virginia, United States.

[Nairobi News] Tanzania's Minister of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports, Innocent Bashungwa, has warned the country's media to desist from using "rumours" on the whereabouts of President John Magufuli.

[Nation] Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga will spend Wednesday night in quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19 at a city hospital.

[CFR] In the Central African Republic (CAR), outside the capital Bangui, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra exerts little to no authority. Armed rebel groups control two-thirds of the country, including access to mining sites.

[JusticeInfo.net] After establishing that the July 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants was perpetrated by state authorities, Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has exposed the government's cover-up that followed...

[Nation] The International Criminal Court (ICC) has allowed Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to tighten her case against Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru by offering more explanation on why the six charges facing him should be confirmed and the matter proce...

[Nation] Prison authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a ban on a local watchdog group over a report on a deadly prison riot which occurred last year.