[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu arrived in Kenya Tuesday for talks with her host President Uhuru Kenyatta, in her first state visit to Kenya since taking over power.

[Daily Trust] Five months after a series of bilateral talks between the Nigerian government and authorities in Ghana aimed at addressing the nearly a decade-long controversy that led to the closure of Nigerian traders' shops in Ghana, the issues have...

[Daily Trust] The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, says documentations with banks in different countries is delaying the return of the £4.2m stashed away by a former governor of Delta State, James Ibori.

[Premium Times] The Defence Headquarters in a statement by its spokesperson, Onyema Nwachukwu, said it was reacting to a statement by a senior lawyer calling for the handing over of power to the military.

[Independent (Kampala)] Entebbe -- President Yoweri Museveni has today held his last cabinet meeting for the 2016-2021 term of office.

[Monitor] National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has reached out to all Opposition political parties to discuss the aftermath of 2021 General Election and how they can move forward.

[Nation] Exiled former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh has vowed to return to the country.

[VOA] New York -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is sending his special envoy for the Horn of Africa to the region Tuesday in a bid to de-escalate tensions.

[VOA] Johannesberg, South Africa -- Biden administration officials say they are serious about global climate change, and that they are demonstrating their intent with an initiative that funds projects across the African continent.

[RFI] Paris prosecutors have asked judges to drop a case accusing senior members of the French armed forces of complicity in the massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The call to drop the 15-year-old case follows the recent publication...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nairobi -- The COVID-19 crisis has hit workers across the world, particularly women, who are over-represented in low-paid precarious sectors

[ISS] President Guelleh's controversial fifth term is more likely to be tested by regional than domestic challenges.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The EU High Representative Josep Borrell said the block has canceled the deployment of its planned electoral observation mission to Ethiopia.

[CFR] On April 27, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, in a virtual meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, requested that the United States move the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) headquarters from Stuttgart, Germany to Africa. The requ...

[RFI] The military junta that took power in Chad last month after the shock death of veteran leader Idriss Déby named a transition government on Sunday, the army spokesman said.

[WHO] Brazzaville/Kinshasa -- Today marks the end of the 12th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just three months after the first case was reported in North Kivu. The Ebola outbreak that re-emerged in February came nine months a...

[East African] Last week a Nigerian political analyst sent out a note to a network of Africans who track security issues on the continent. It was a short worried note: "If you aren't watching Nigeria, you must", he said.

[allAfrica] Africa does not need the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline.

[allAfrica] It's one full year since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, which has since claimed millions of victims and changed the way in which we live our lives forever. And whilst some of the immediate consequences of the pandemic have been starkly ...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of May 3, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 4,565,548 while over 12,401,980 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[This Day] The Election Offences Bill currently before the two arms of the National Assembly prescribes various penalties culpability ranging from monetary fines to jail terms, writes Chuks Okocha

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe stand-in captain Brendan Taylor believes the Chevrons will need to put on a better batting display in the second Test which begins Friday at the Harare Sports Club in order to have any chance of salvaging the series.

[Nyasa Times] "This would help to provide more protection to people with albinism."

[Nyasa Times] "A mysterious man who sneaked into Bob Mtekama's hospital room at 04:00 am."

[Nyasa Times] Minister of Homeland Security, Richard Chimwendo Banda, says there is "no turning back" and has reaffirmed his ministry's commitment to have refugees return to Dzaleka amidst an injunction still hanging in the air arguing that, by Malaw...

[This Day] The leadership of the Senate will this week meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the myriad of security challenges facing the nation.

[The Herald] UNDER the Second Republic farming is turning into a serious enterprise underpinned by robust financing models such as the Agricultural Finance Corporation Holdings (AFCH) launched by President Mnangagwa last Friday, analysts have observe...

[This Day] The Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Limited said it has received the sum of $60million, which is the first instalment of the $629 million loan facility from the China Development Bank for the construction of the Lekki Deep Sea Port.

[This Day] The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), yesterday called for the release of journalists who are still in detention across the country, urging media owners, the private sector and the government, to provide special protection for journalists, ...

[263Chat] The no-work, no pay principle recently announced by government is regrettable and in bad faith, Zimbabwe Congress of Public Sector Trade Unions and Apex Council have said.