[allAfrica] As of May 1, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  4,557,699 while over 12,401,980 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Monitor] The Minister of Works and Transport, Gen Edward Katumba Wamala, has ordered a section of the senior management team at the Uganda Airlines Corporation (UAC) to leave office for at least three months to allow for an internal investigation.

[Nairobi News] President Uhuru Kenyatta has lifted the cessation of movement in the Covid-19 most affected counties of Nairobi, Kiambu, Nakuru, Kajiado, and Machakos.

[Monitor] The president of the National Unity Platform (NUP), Mr Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine, has said that he has no intentions of negotiating with President Yoweri Museveni for the release of his supporters who were arrested in last ...

[Citizen] Anna -- Maria Holmström, a lady from Finland who has lived in Tanzania for 12 years, is among the people who have made remarkable contribution to ending violence against children and women in the country.

[RFI] The Democratic Republic of Congo has announced a "state of siege" in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in the east of the country following an unprecedented wave of protests against insecurity and civilian massacres by armed groups.

[ISS] The AU should bring all three parties together to de-escalate tensions around the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

[Nation] At least 12 governors could be charged over how they spent Sh7.7 billion Covid-19 funds received during the early months of the pandemic as agencies start to investigate massive irregularities revealed by the Auditor General.

[DW] In East Africa and Nigeria, avocado farmers want to enter the insatiable export market. Environmental concerns cast a shadow over the crop in other parts of the world. What will African farmers do differently?

[Nairobi News] Uganda says it is on red alert over the possibility of a second wave of Covid-19 infections.

[This Day] A new report by SB Morgan (SBM) Intelligence says over 590 Nigerians lost their lives in violent attacks in various parts of the country last month.

[Nairobi News] The entertainment industry in Kenya is mourning the death of legendary actor Gillie Owino.

[UN News] Healthcare workers in Malawi are concerned that misinformation about COVID-19 is preventing patients in dire need of medical attention not related to the virus, from seeking what could be live-saving treatment.

[Nation] To promoters and supporters of the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill 2020, the proposed law changes have surmounted all the roadblocks that were on its way.

[Nation] In 1973, the Government of Kenya signed a deal with the then East African Power and Lighting Company to connect electricity to rural areas.

[Zimbabwe Standard] Zanu PF in Mashonaland East yesterday paraded former MDC Alliance member Tracy Mutinhiri and 51 other people that defected to the ruling party from the opposition.

[Zimbabwe Standard] MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said employers must pay their workers in United States dollars, saying they deserve a decent wage.

[Zimbabwe Standard] Former Air Zimbabwe workers have vowed to fight against the payment of their salary arrears in local currency at a rate of US$1: ZW$1, arguing that the move is unconstitutional.

[New Zimbabwe] THE MDC-T's Independent Election Management Body which conducted the party's chaotic elections December last year, has described the outcome of the internal poll as the true will of the party's membership.

[New Zimbabwe] CORRUPTION accused former Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira Saturday made a surprise appearance at a Zanu PF provincial coordinating committee meeting (PCC) held in Chinhoyi.

[New Zimbabwe] MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa says the best way to resolve recurrent wage based disputes among Zimbabwean workers and their employers was to award them US dollar salaries.

[New Zimbabwe] UNDER FIRE MDC-T says it will next week conduct a cost benefit analysis of the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 which party MPs have endorsed.

[Nairobi News] Comedian Stella Bunei Koitie, popularly known as Jemutai, has rescinded her decision to sell off her Facebook page which has more than a million followers.

[Seychelles News Agency] Blue Safari Seychelles in partnership with Island Conservation Society (ICS) and Islands Development Company (IDC) is continuing to run programmes to protect ecosystems on four of Seychelles' outer islands despite huge financ...

[Vanguard] Organised Labour yesterday, directed workers in the states where governors were yet to implement the new minimum wage to immediately begin an indefinite strike.

[Premium Times] Motorcycle is one of the commonest means of transportation in the oil-rich state, especially in the rural areas.

[Premium Times] Mr Buhari said that the expansion of the N-Power programme would ensure job creation and poverty alleviation.

[Daily News] THE United States has issued grants to 11 civil societies, nonprofit and faith based organisations which have been registered to implement community-led monitoring projects aimed to improve HIV services across the country.

[Nation] Dictatorship and democracy are as old as the hills. Despite the defeat of Fascism in 1945 and the fall of Soviet Communism in 1989, countries have swung, like a roller coaster, between democracy and dictatorship. What is certainly new is ecl...

[DW] Police fired tear gas canisters at DW's East Africa correspondent Mariel Müller while she was covering a protest in Nairobi. Amnesty International and the Foreign Press Association of Africa have condemned the attack.