[Crisis Group] The U.S. has designated two armed groups in the DRC and in Mozambique as terrorist organisations, claiming they are affiliated with the Islamic State, and creating potential legal peril for peacemakers who may deal with them. Crisis Gr...

[MSF] Violence which spread throughout Borno state, in northeast Nigeria, has forced people like Adama out of their homes. Adama now lives in a camp for displaced people in Pulka, a small garrison town located 115 kilometres southwest of Maiduguri, t...

[Nation] Ethiopia on Saturday reported some 35 cases of Covid-19 vaccine side-effects since the horn of Africa nation begun administering the AstraZeneca jab one week ago.

[Nation] After a topsy-turvy academic year brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, it's D-Day for primary school candidates.

[The Conversation Africa] In the early years of African independence, hydroelectricity offered the promise of modernity and development. For then President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, the Akosombo Dam in Ghana (completed in 1965), in conjunction with the...

[Premium Times] PREMIUM TIMESʼ review of the ages of Nigeria's current 44 ministers shows that their average age is 61 years. The nation's youth minister, Sunday Dare, is 54.

[The Conversation Africa] Access to safe water is central to human health and economic development, yet most rural households in sub-Saharan Africa don't have water piped to their home.

[The Conversation Africa] Ever since construction began a decade ago, there's been serious contention between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a huge project straddling the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.

[New Zimbabwe] A CHINHOYI magistrate has raised concern over the prevalence of gender-based violence against women.

[Nation] South Sudan's Fifth Vice President has contracted the novel coronavirus, her press office has confirmed.

[Nairobi News] Tanzania opposition leader Tundi Lissu remains bitter with fallen president John Magufuli, even after the Head of State's death.

[New Times] Grace Ingabire, 25, was on Saturday, March 20, crowned Miss Rwanda 2021 during a colorful grand finale.

[New Times] Media practitioners are pushing for a review of the law on access to information.

[Nairobi News] US Vice President Kamala Harris has congratulated new Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

[Nation] A group's mission to console a colleague whose father had died turned tragic when their boat capsized in Lake Victoria on Saturday.

[Nation] The third wave of Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc across the country, raising infections, hospital admissions and death figures above those experienced last November at the peak of the second wave.

[Premium Times] Nigeria placed 115th in 2020 report, a significant decline from 85th it placed in 2019.

[Leadership] Abuja -- The director-general, World Trade Organisation ( WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said Africa needs to create a "roadmap" for boosting the continent's capacity to eventually produce COVID-19 vaccines. The WTO DG said it has beco...

[The Herald] An Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was spotted in Chipinge on Friday night sparking several theories.

[CAJ News] Abuja, Nigeria -- A STATE in western Nigeria has reopened ten schools that were recently closed during a deadlock over the hijab, a religious veil worn by Muslim females.

[Premium Times] "Negative and fake stories make headlines in today's society simply because people want to hear negatives over positives."

[Vanguard] Kano -- The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF says no fewer than 26.5 million Nigerian Children do not have enough water to meet their daily needs and are experiencing high or extremely high water vulnerability.

[Vanguard] In a bid to curb the rising insecurity situation, President Mohammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi to reintroduce Cargo Tracking Notes, CTN, following the proliferation of arms and increase in...

[VOA] Yaounde -- There have been mixed reactions in Cameroon to 88-year-old President Paul Biya's orders that his party-dominated upper and lower houses of Parliament reelect officials who are over 80 years old to top positions. According to the cent...

[RFI] Monrovia -- Lawyers representing victims of one of the deadliest massacres in Liberia presented evidence to a judge in the United States this week for the prosecution of Colonel Moses Thomas, the former head of an elite unit within the Armed Fo...

[The Herald] The country's export promotion and development agency, ZimTrade, has secured funding for a capacity building program on the cultivation and certification of organic garlic whose demand has been soaring on the international market, the ag...

[VOA] Geneva -- The U.N. refugee agency said an armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on a rampage that has killed nearly 200 people and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes since the start of this year.

[New Zimbabwe] DZIVARASEKWA legislator Edwin Mushoriwa has moved a motion calling for the rehabilitation of old urban high-density suburbs in the country following over a century of their existence.

[The Herald] Daniel Nemukuyu, Thupeyo Muleya and Fungai Lupande

[New Times] President Paul Kagame on Friday, March 19 urged newly appointed leaders to fully commit to their duties, saying that they owed Rwandans quality service.