[Lesotho Times] LESOTHO must embrace new partnerships and approaches to reconstruct the textile industry and help it recover from Covid-19.

[AIM] Maputo -- The scandal of Mozambique's "hidden debts" has already cost the country at least 11 billion US dollars, and has plunged an additional two million people into poverty, according to a detailed study of the costs and consequences of the ...

[New Zimbabwe] POLICE in Bulawayo have issued court summons to Ibhetshu LikaZulu secretary general, Mbuso Fuzwayo over his alleged involvement in violent protests which rocked Bulawayo City Hall in October 2019 following the abortive suspension of To...

[Nyasa Times] Malawi chess brainiac, Joseph Mwale, has made it possible for Malawi to be crowned second after he outshone fellow champions from such countries as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Senegal and Algeria.

[New Zimbabwe] OUTSPOKEN former minister and Zanu PF politburo member, Tshinga Dube has defended late former President Robert Mugabe's family for burying the once fierce ruler at his rural home in Zvimba.

[Lesotho Times] FORMER All Basotho Convention (ABC) deputy leader Nqosa Mahao believes his newly formed Basotho Action Party (BAP) is the party Basotho have been waiting for all these years since independence in 1966 to take them to the promised land...

[New Frame] The teenage swimming sensation has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics but is realistic about repeating Joan Breetzke's gold medal success in 1952.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government announced on Thursday that it will no longer subsidise the price of raw cotton, paid to the producers.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mayor of Maputo, Eneas Comiche, has promised that measures will be taken against four members of the municipal police who were caught on camera on Wednesday savagely beating an informal vendor.

[Daily Maverick] In the week, Zweli Mkhize, facing growing accounts of cronyism and corruption in the R150-million (and counting) Digital Vibes contract, said he had not personally benefited from it. That is now shown to be a lie.

[The Herald] Patrick Chitumba -- Midlands Bureau Chief

[The Herald] Isdore Guvamombe -- Tourism Talk

[New Zimbabwe] KWEKWE Proportional Representation MP, Perseverance Zhou says the localised lockdown imposed on Kwekwe by government recently was having an adverse impact on women especially those making a living through street vending.

[New Zimbabwe] GOVERNMENT Friday kickstarted the Africa Day Feeding Programme in schools throughout the country.

[New Zimbabwe] THE Natural History Museum in London, which has an extensive collection of artefacts, says it does not have First Chimurenga heroine Ambuya Nehanda's skull as constantly alleged by the Zimbabwean government.

[The Herald] George Maponga -- Masvingo Bureau

[The Herald] NGEZI Platinum Stars coach, Rodwell Dhlakama, could throw the same players he used last week, when they take on Whawha in the Chibuku Super Cup at Mandava tomorrow.

[The Herald] ZIMBABWE netball star, Felisitus Kwangwa, believes her English side, Surrey Storm, will rise again, after she experienced a difficult first season, with the club.

[The Herald] AFTER signing for a one-year sponsorship deal with Nedbank, to help them in their bid to qualify for the 2023 World Cup in France, the Zimbabwe Sables expect to do well, in their upcoming fixtures.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Friday reported another death from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 24 new cases.

[New Zimbabwe] THE leader of an Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) faction, Cossam Chiyangwa who lost to church rival Amon Madawo in a protracted power wrangle within the religious institution 2019, has again lost his Supreme Court appeal against an earli...

[New Zimbabwe] GOVERNMENT on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding which will see it upscale its collaborative efforts on risk management efforts with the Centre of Humanitarian Analytics (CHA).

[DW] Germany's health minister, Jens Spahn, is in South Africa as part of an initiative to assist vaccine production on the continent. But improving manufacuting capacity is still set to be a long journey.

[DW] The government in Namibia has welcomed the move but Herero and Nama activists have slammed Germany's pledge to fund projects in the country rather than provide reparations.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] While convictions are relatively rare, LGBT+ campaigners say the law perpetuates discrimination and means gay men live in fear of arrest

[spotlight] Be true to science; be kind and gentle to patients.

[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".

[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...

[DW] Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Germany had caused "immeasurable suffering" to the Herero and Nama people, in what is now Namibia, in the early part of the 20th century.

[DW] Germany is going to apologize for the genocide against the Herero and Nama in Namibia. But reconciliation cannot be taken for granted -- now the hard work begins, writes DW's Daniel Pelz.