[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of June 1, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 4,840,460 while over 23,109,877 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] As preparations are made for the G7 Summit in the UK next week, top of the agenda is how to end the COVID-19 pandemic and secure the global recovery. Urgent challenges face us.

[New Zimbabwe] Luke Malaba says he remains Chief Justice as last month's landmark High Court ruling declaring his continued tenure unconstitutional, was being appealed against at the Supreme Court.

[The Herald] The bodies of 157 Zimbabwean Cyclone Idai victims who were buried in Mozambique in 2019 are to be exhumed, identified and brought back to Zimbabwe, but another 344 people presumably killed during the cyclone and washed away into Mozambiq...

[New Times] Farmers who are growing iron-rich beans across the country are experiencing a rising demand of produce on the market considering the crop potential in beating malnutrition.

[DW] After a decade of absence, the former leader of the Ivory Coast is planning to go back to his country. Having been acquitted by the ICC, he may still face a conviction at home.

[Nairobi News] Kenyans will have to remain indoors for the majority of the night while avoiding public gatherings of any nature in the day for the next 60 days.

[VOA] Paris -- After outlining a fresh chapter in French-African relations, with calls for massive economic support for Africa and visits to Rwanda and South Africa last week, President Emmanuel Macron is back home to confront familiar and thorny pro...

[East African] Western diplomats in South Sudan are calling on the unity government to investigate the looting and killing of humanitarian workers in the country.

[Nation] Rebels belonging to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed 57 people in a Sunday night attack on two villages in the territory of Irumu, Ituri Province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials say.

[AI London] Amnesty International Nigeria today launches #TalkYourTruth- a campaign to protect freedom of expression in Nigeria, as critics, journalists and individuals who express dissenting views face intimidation, threats and sometimes arrest by s...

[Nation] A Kenyan migrant worker and activist based in Qatar who was recently arrested and detained in the Gulf nation on allegations of violating its security laws is now in deeper trouble.

[VOA] Yaoundé -- Cameroon rights groups, opposition parties and local media are asking the government to publish its findings after most of a $335 million loan from the IMF could not be accounted for. At least 15 officials have appeared before commi...

[VOA] Washington/Hargeisa -- Polling stations have opened in the self-proclaimed republic of Somaliland as voters go to the polls to elect their parliamentary and local representatives.

[DW] Chad has accused the CAR army of attacking a military outpost on Chad's side of the border, before killing a number of soldiers.

[This Day] The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Monday revealed that it was currently considering equity participation in a number of private refineries in the country in line with extant federal government policy directive.

[Premium Times] While world leaders have condemned the coups in Mali, they have been less critical of the one last month in Chad

[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria has very few women participating in politics. Only seven out of 109 senators and 22 of the 360 House of Representatives members are women. And only four out of 36 deputy governors are women. The country has never had...

[VOA] Abuja -- Nigerian political observers are expressing concern over the many attacks on the facilities of Nigeria's electoral body - the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC. INEC officials say the commission has recorded at least 4...

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] South Africa is pressing for urgent military intervention in Cabo Delgado, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor told Reuters (21 May) in a telephone interview. Since 2008 SADC has had a regional defence...

[allAfrica] Abuja -- Following is a statement issued by Professor Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu What is the value of a Nigerian life?

[Nation] Legendary former Kenya hockey international and Olympian, Parminder "Kake" Saini is dead.

[Nation] Private companies will buy electricity from Kenya Power and resell it to customers, if new rules by the regulator are approved.

[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwe Chamber of Mines (ZCM) has attributed the decline in gold output in 2020 and the first quarter of this year to the havoc caused by the Covid-19 pandemic among other constraints.

[The Herald] The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has set up an internal anti-graft unit that receives and investigates complaints raised against prosecutors as part of a raft of measures meant to curb corruption and sort out other complaints rai...

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[GroundUp] Congolese refugee Azuri Muhuli uses painting to tell the stories of immigrants who have suffered xenophobic violence.

[This Day] Abuja -- Three states in the North-east, the epicentre of insurgency in Nigeria, Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, have been ranked as the most dangerous states in the country to travel to.