[Premium Times] The armed men used guns and dynamite and also attacked a police facility in the area.

[Premium Times] The action is expected to be replicated across all Nigerian courts on Tuesday.

[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi has labelled heinous acts of cowardice the continued terrorist attacks in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province.

[VOA] At least 40 people have been killed in Sudan's West Darfur region after three days of ethnic clashes that have prompted the government to declare a state of emergency, the United Nations announced Monday.

[VOA] Pop star The Weeknd has announced he will be donating $1 million to relief efforts in Ethiopia amid the country's ongoing conflict in the Tigray region.

[UN News] Fifty-eight women and children of more than 600 who were abducted last year during vicious intercommunal fighting in South Sudan, have been reunited with their families, the UN Spokesperson told reporters on Monday.

[RFI] Mali's military government paid two million euros for the release of opposition leader Soumaïla Cissé, who was freed in October after being kidnapped by gunmen, according to an intermediary who negotiated on behalf of the Malian authorities.

[RFI] The corpse of a Swiss national held captive for over four years in Mali has been discovered and her DNA confirmed, the Swiss foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

[East African] France released a report based on two years of consultation and research of the country's archives by a team of historians to determine the country's complicity

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican armed forces have taken full control of the town of Palma, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, driving out the remaining islamist terrorists who had attacked the town on 24 March.

[East African] The US government's 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices documents human rights violations in Burundi from 2015 to date.

[East African] The Biden administration will review bilateral trade negotiations and targets that ex-President Donald Trump regime made with Kenya last year over a potential free trading deal.

[DW] The plane's nonappearance took its original destination in Zambia by surprise. As the pilot informed air traffic control that he was about to land, they told him: "We can't see you."

[Nation] Marsabit and Mandera counties are staring at imminent famine amid a ravaging drought.

[Nation] Somalia's leaders have failed to agree on the main agenda for a crucial electoral meeting, reflecting the unattended fissures between them.

[The Conversation Africa] Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, reportedly attributed the success of the COVID-19 vaccines to "capitalism" and "greed". But he is wrong - the idea that private ingenuity and naked competition produced the vaccines is a...

[The Conversation Africa] In football, a win "on the road" often takes on a greater significance than a comparative win at home. Although the idea of a home advantage has received some considerable research attention over the years, we still don't kn...

[Daily Trust] Monday's attack on the Owerri Correctional Service in Imo State is one of the major attacks in the country.

[This Day] Five of the 39 abducted students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna have been recovered.

[Leadership] Abuja -- The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has dismissed a media report purporting that the wreckage of missing NAF Alpha Jet has been found in Bama.

[Premium Times] The police headquarters in Imo as well as that of the Correctional Service were attacked at about 2 a.m. on Monday by unknown gunmen.

[RFI] An international tribunal for Rwanda has turned down a request for the early release of Theoneste Bagosora, a man some consider the mastermind behind the 1994 genocide that killed some 800,000 people.

[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- Commander Mustafa Tambour of the mainstream Sudan Liberation Movement faction led by Abdelwahid El Nur (SLM-AW) arrived in Khartoum on Saturday to meet Suleiman El Debello, chairman of the Sudanese Peace Council.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Some 2.1 million people across 74 Woredas in Somali Region require humanitarian assistance as a result of drought, according to the Regional Disaster Risk Management Bureau (DRMB), the UNOCHA said.

[RFI] African football bosses on Thursday announced the dates for the next African Cup of Nations tournament.

[Leadership] Niger's newly elected President Mohamed Bazoum has been sworn in, a democratic watershed overshadowed by armed groups' violence and alleged coup bid two days ago.

[Nation] Organised militia groups are behind eight in every 10 of South Sudan's civilian deaths in the country's enduring conflict, in what could signal the limitations of ceasefire agreements.

[Daily Maverick] A new book by the British author Michela Wrong, 'Do not disturb: the story of a political murder and an African regime gone bad', has kicked a hornet's nest. While it has won laudatory reviews, it has also exposed the profound and at...

[VOA] Maputo -- Mozambique's government said it is reclaiming territory from Islamic State-affiliated insurgents that besieged the key northern coastal town of Palma, with some of the thousands of civilians who fled now going back to take stock of th...

[The Herald] Actress Thandie Newton has said she is reverting to the original Zimbabwean spelling of her first name, Thandiwe.