[allAfrica] As of March 27, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 4,164,880 while over 6,230,004 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] For the first time, insurgents are specifically attacking foreigners in the on-going fighting in Palma.  Details remain sketchy, but at least a dozen British, South African and other non-Mozambicans working or...

[DW] Two passenger trains have crashed into each other leaving more than 30 people dead and more injured.

[DW] Eritrean troops have faced increasing pressure to leave the Tigray region after accusations of serious rights abuses. After denying reports of their presence for months, Ethiopia has now said troops will be leaving.

[The Conversation Africa] A major political transition is under way in Tanzania after the laying to rest of former president John Pombe Magufuli. The East African nation's new leader Samia Suluhu Hassan is the country's sixth president and currently ...

[DW] Two passenger trains have crashed into each other leaving at least 19 dead and almost 200 injured. On Saturday, the Health Ministry revised down the initial death toll of 32.

[Daily News] PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan on Friday reiterated the government's commitment to put into action the vision and plans of the late former President John Magufuli as she led Tanzanians in the burial of the departed Head of State.

[African Arguments] Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African contin...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The World Bank on Friday approved US$100 million in additional financing for the Tunisia COVID-19 Response Project to enable affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines in the country, according to a W...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Allianz Africa is eyeing the agriculture insurance sector in Kenya and the East African region which they say is set to grow by 200 percent.

[DW] John Magufuli has been buried nearly 10 days after passing away at the age of 61, officially from heart complications. The late head of state was an ardent coronavirus skeptic.

[DW] Germany deported more than 750 people to Africa in 2020. Most African countries are ill-prepared to welcome rejected asylum-seekers, and activists say the coronavirus pandemic could make matters worse.

[DW] No sooner had Samia Suluhu Hassan been sworn in as Tanzania's first female leader did people start debating whether to call her "Mama Samia." Mama shows respect and doesn't reduce presidential powers, says Grace Kabogo.

[Ethiopian Herald] . Eritrea to withdraw its forces from Ethiopian border side

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA - Since Ethiopia's policy on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is clear and consistent from the outset, Egypt and Sudan need to genuinely cooperate on fair utilization of the Nile water, International Water Man...

[Nyasa Times] Lilongwe-based businessman Gilliat Samudeni Bonongwe, trading under the name Bonongwe Building Construction, was paid K247 000 000 by State House from the public funds as he was building former president Peter Mutharika's Mapanga and Ma...

[East African] President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who took over the reins in Dodoma last week, after the death of president John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, faces a daunting in-tray.

[Leadership] Parents of the abducted 39 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Afaka yesterday met with officials of the Kaduna state government as well as security officials behind closed doors.

[Leadership] The Sokoto State government has shutdown Government Girls Secondary School, Mabera following the suspected outbreak of Gastro Astrisis also known as cholera which has led to the death of two persons in the school.

[DW] Jihadis have seized a town and also allegedly attacked a convoy of fleeing civilians, including foreign workers, as fighting continued in the gas-rich region.

[Vanguard] *Musa: We target victory

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychellois Elvis Chetty, the president of the Seychelles Football Federation, has been elected to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) executive committee as an ordinary member.

[Nation] Explosives could have started the devastating fire that continues to ravage Loldaiga Hills in Laikipia County, where British soldiers have been training.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- 21 further fatalities and 745 infections from 4,822 conducted tests were reported on March, announced Friday evening, the Health Ministry in its daily report on the epidemiological situation in the country.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- 21 further fatalities and 745 infections from 4,822 conducted tests were reported on March, announced Friday evening, the Health Ministry in its daily report on the epidemiological situation in the country.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Ministry of Health (MINSA) announced that the vaccination against Covid-19, in Angola, reached already 111, 231 people.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola registered, in the last 24 hours, the recovery of 60 patients and 51 new infections, in the last 24 hours.

[Govt of SA] As of today the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases for South Africa is 1 543 079.

[Ethiopian Herald] Plans to save 300 mln. USD spent a year for rice

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA- The proximity of Semera Industrial Park to Ethiopia's main sea outlets, ports of Tadjourah and Djibouti would create conducive investment climate in the area and to enhance the country's import-export activities, Afar ...