[CFR] Katie Auth is policy director at the Energy for Growth Hub and former deputy coordinator of Power Africa at USAID. Todd Moss is executive director at the Hub and a former deputy assistant secretary of State for African Affairs. Rose Mutiso is r...

[Namibian] OPPOSITION political parties have labelled the German government's offer to make amends for the brutal extermination of Ovaherero and Nama between 1904 and 1908 an "insult to Namibia".

[Nation] Medical researchers are investigating a mystery variant of coronavirus that could be specific to Kenya, the Health ministry reported yesterday.

[Conservation Action Trust] The Department of Agriculture is about to introduce a new Animal Welfare Act, but all non-agricultural stakeholders have been excluded from the working group drafting it, suggesting that the new Act will mainly benefit the...

[WHO] Open letter to all WHO Member States

[New Era] Katima Mulilo Urban constituency councillor John Mukaya has died after he was involved in a road accident on Wednesday evening at around 19h15. This happened when his VW Polo collided head-on with an oncoming seven-seater Toyota Noa in the ...

[New Era] As Namibia's sodomy law debate intensifies, various political parties and activists have expressed different opinions, with some calling on national leaders to calculate their remarks made publicly against sexual minorities.

[Independent (Kampala)] Mpondwe/Kasindi- Beni (80km)

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- A record 18th U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Country Operation Plan for Uganda has been approved.

[East African] Rwanda will on Saturday resume its Covid-19 nationwide vaccination campaign to fully immunise those who had previously received their first doses of the Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccines.

[Monitor] It is a sunny mid-morning in Njeru Township in Buikwe District and 13-year old Latifa Nalujja, looks hungry and bored.

[RFI] French President Emmanuel Macron travelled to South Africa for a state visit Friday for a 24-hour trip focused on the fight against Covid-19 and its economic fallout.

[Daily Trust] The China Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation (CCECC), the contractor handling the Lagos-Ibadan rail project, is in a race to meet the June commissioning deadline by finishing at least seven stations, Daily Trust reports.

[Nation] Commuters using the Likoni crossing channel can successfully sue the Kenya Ferry Services (KFS) for damages in case of a stampede leading to injuries.

[This Day] The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the license of Human Rights Radio for recurring unprofessional conduct.

[East African] Kenya is on high alert following a possibility of a third wave of desert locust invasion as huge swarms are currently hatching in Somalia and are likely to cross to Kenya.

[WHO] The World Health Assembly, the main governing body of the World Health Organization, has adopted a new resolution that aims to revitalize and accelerate efforts to end malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that continues to claim more th...

[Premium Times] Over 200 people have been reportedly killed in the last month in Benue.

[New Zimbabwe] Victoria Falls -- A Congolese national has been arrested and fined after being found with a forged passport he intended to use to cross into Zambia enroute to his country.

[New Zimbabwe] A 21-year-old Nyazura woman was handed a nine-year jail sentence after she was convicted of stock theft by Rusape magistrates' court.

[New Zimbabwe] High Court judge Felistus Chatukuta has hit out at former minister, Ignatius Chombo accusing him of abusing court processes through filing an "application for second revival of Temporary Variation of bail Conditions".

[The Herald] The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe now has powers to impose civil penalties on institutions and individuals that uses foreign currency obtained from the auction trading system for a purpose other than that specified in the application of the f...

[Government of Namibia] Windhoek -- Announcement of Amendments to Public Health Covid 19 General Regulations: Public And Environmental Health Act, 2015: Minister Of Health And Social Services.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Double Troika Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has reaffirmed its solidarity with Mozambique, and its continued efforts in addressing terrorism and ensuring lasting p...

[GroundUp] The Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to deploy the army to help end the week-long strike by taxi drivers.

[GroundUp] "For as long as the state criminalises sex workers, who are adults working to sustain their families, there is no freedom," says Katlego Rasebitse of Sisonke sex workers advocacy group.

[Daily News] THE Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has established fourteen special hotlines which people will be using to call authorities in case wild and other disturbing animals leave the national parks to storm their places.

[Daily News] VICE-President Dr Phillip Mpango (pictured) yesterday ordered agricultural input companies to start producing seeds in the country instead of importing from abroad.

[Daily News] DETERMINED to improve the health of citizens, Zanzibar government will in the next fiscal year spend over 122bn/- in curative programme.

[Daily News] AS the Southern African Development Community (SADC) marks its 40th anniversary this year, Zanzibar's Second Vice President, Hemed Suleiman Abdulla has implored Tanzanians to tap business opportunities that are yet to be explored in the ...