[allAfrica] As of April 29, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  4,531,818 while over 12,002,674 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Recently, Dr. Ngozi Erondu and colleagues wrote an open letter in the journal Nature Medicine, which called out international funders of science and development in Africa and has pledged better ways of funding for malaria programs and ini...

[Nation] Somalia's Lower House has been thrust in the spotlight, again, after President Mohamed Farmaajo announced he will ask the chamber to cancel an extension of his term.

[allAfrica] Dakar -- It has been eleven years since Senegal's National Assembly passed a law declaring the Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of African people a crime against humanity. The law passed by the Senegalese Senate on April 27th not ...

[New Zimbabwe] Small to Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni says only 6 % Zimbabweans were currently unemployed, contradicting wide claims that the country's unemployment rate was hovering above 90%.

[Nyasa Times] Magistrate Patrick Chirwa has adjourned a case involving Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and wife, Mary, to June 4, 2021 to pave way for the Bushiris to seek judicial review of the case before the High Court.

[Premium Times] The UN human rights experts say Mr Bala's prolonged detention is a "flagrant violation of fundamental rights" and has "a chilling effect on the exercise of fundamental freedoms in Nigeria".

[Leadership] The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered with the Nigeria's National Malaria Elimination Programme to launch a new $90million malaria control effort in eight vulnerable states in Nigeria.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] LGBT+ rights groups say Twitter has ignored the plight of LGBT+ people in Ghana, where persecution is widespread and gay sex is punishable with up to three years in jail.

[This is Africa] Lady Justice Koome Martha Karambu has made history after being nominated Kenya's first woman Chief Justice by the Judicial Service Commission. Justice Koome is set to become Kenya's 15th Chief Justice.

[East African] For the second year running, Tanzania is the country in East Africa where you will pay lowest to access the internet on your smartphone, according to data released recently by British technology research firm Cable.

[RFI] At least five people have been killed during banned protests against Chad's new military junta led by Mahamat Deby, son of veteran ruler Idriss Deby Itno who was killed in an attack earlier this month. France has condemned the repression and ca...

[New Zimbabwe] Nine-lives opposition legislator Tendai Biti and his colleagues are now sure to be heading back to parliament after People's Democratic Party (PDP) proxy, Benjamin Rukanda has lost his appeal, with costs, to have the lawmakers booted ...

[Nyasa Times] "We have hope she will do well."

[Premium Times] "Authorities in Nigeria must identify those who assaulted journalist Frederick Olatunde Odimayo and ensure they are held to account - including those who planned the attack," said Angela Quintal, CPJ's Africa program coordinator.

[Premium Times] Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), child rights, women and gender rights violations accounted for 35.5 per cent (445,080) of the 1,287,760 total complaints filed across the 36 states of the federation and the FCT.

[Daily News] I T is the Civics subject in school that helped Neema Jacob and her siblings to escape Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in 2018. She was in standard six by then at one of the Mwanzabased primary schools and aged 12 years. Her parents, esp...

[This Day] A Nigerian utility company, Arnergy, which recently raised $9 million in a Series A round of funding renewable energy systems has been listed by Bill Gates and Associates among top five Cleantech outfits that will help save the planet.

[CFR] Confirmed by the Spanish prime minister, Western media reports that two Spanish filmmakers and the Irish president of a conservation non-governmental organization (NGO) were murdered in Burkina Faso near the border with Benin on April 26.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya announced Wednesday the suspension of flights to and from India following a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths.

[UN News] Child displacement in the Central African Republic (CAR) has now reached its highest level since 2014, according to the latest estimates from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), warning of the mounting risks children face.

[The Herald] Farmers have collectively earned US$90,4 million from the sale of tobacco, as prices continue to firm.

[Nation] A taskforce established to review Kenya's draft data protection regulations Tuesday started a three-day virtual public participation.

[Namibian] RESIDENTS of the Sky settlement at Oshakati are outraged at the Oshakati Town Council's decision to relocate them to Onawa informal settlement, where they say they will not have access to sanitation.

[Namibian] Deputy minister of agriculture Anna Shiweda says the criticism that is often directed at politicians, top government officials and their relatives for owning mining licences or fishing quotas is unfair and unconstitutional.

[Namibian] ABOUT N$20 million will be needed to repair roads that were damaged by heavy rains and annual floods in the rural areas of Zambezi region.

[263Chat] A consortium of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the country have condemned the proposal of the Patriotic Bill saying it is an attempt aimed at silencing and shrinking the civic space.

[263Chat] Opposition MDC-Alliance party youth leader Obey Sithole on Tuesday 27 April 2021 spent his second night in police detention at Harare Central Police Station after some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers released him from police cells y...

[263Chat] A Local human rights lobby group Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has condemned the continued incarceration and persecution of MDC Alliance female activists, Joanna Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri who are still in remand to date.

[The Conversation Africa] New waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries, such as Kenya and India, have exposed the poor management of oxygen supplies. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Professor Trevor Duke, an expert on [oxygen pr...