[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The public utility which supplies the vast majority of South Africa's electricity, Eskom, is the biggest polluter on the continent, according to a local non-governmental organisation.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- South African authorities have seized assets belonging to the Guptas, their companies and associates, reports News24. The assets include luxury properties in the up-market suburbs of Constantia in Cape Town and Morningside in...

[allAfrica] As of June 4, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  4,879,291 while over 24,569,665 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Premium Times] Mr Mohammed has for long championed the call for regulation of social media in the country, claiming the platforms are used to spew hate.

[New Times] Rwanda has launched a three-month trial of using sniffer dogs in the testing for coronavirus in a bid that is likely to strengthen the country's efforts to control the virus spread.

[This Day] Awka -- It was a black Friday in Awka, Anambra State as about eight children hawking at a traffic point at Kwata Flyover Junction in Awka, Anambra State were killed by a lorry conveying cows.

[VOA] Johannesburg -- A well-aimed kick. A strong shove, body checks, shouting and a fight for dominance.

[VOA] Hawzen -- Shops remained shuttered, some government workers hadn't been paid and the town's main hospital was laid to waste. But the Tigrayan fighters still claimed victory, swaggering through the streets of Hawzen with their guns.

[Premium Times] The senator says "the investment of Igbo businessmen in Nigeria is more in the north than in the South-east".

[Observer] The National Unity Platform (NUP) has summoned its counsellors who have been accused of stocking up bribes to vote against the party candidates in this week's local government elections.

[VOA] Khartoum -- Thousands of protesters in Sudan's capital demanded justice from the government this week over a 2019 massacre in Khartoum in which more than 100 people died.

[Daily Trust] Kaduna -- The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Amao, has said that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) will take delivery of eight aircraft between July and end of the year to boost its fight against insecurity.

[Daily Trust] The COVID -19 pandemic has profoundly and globally affected every human endeavour by rendering and gradually leaving our societies tense, challenged and even insecure.

[Daily News] THE Lake Victoria Basin authority has advised people living along the Lake to immediately relocate, following an increase in water table, as a results of climate change impacts, a situation that extends waters to their homes The precauti...

[VOA] The breezy, cool markets are moderately crowded on Wednesday afternoon, and blue tuk-tuks whiz through the streets. Sidewalk juice and coffee shops are busy, in what appears to be a relaxed regional capital.

[New Republic] The National Elections Commission (NEC) is facing another legal crisis as a result of failure to conduct by-elections within the ninety days period as required by the constitution of Liberia.

[VOA] "The threat of a third wave" of COVID-19 in Africa is "real and rising," Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization regional director for Africa, told a virtual news conference Thursday.

[VOA] Abuja -- For weeks now, Niger state in Central Nigeria has remained a hotspot for kidnappings in the country.

[UCT] Dr Alberto Valenciano, a former researcher from the University of Cape Town (UCT), is the lead author on new research that has found the origin of some of the most emblematic groups of African carnivorous mammals: jackals.

[New Zimbabwe] MDC activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, who were serving 20 year jail terms for murdering a Harare police office in 2011, have been freed by the Supreme Court after languishing in prison for an effective five years.

[New Era] With the liquidation of Air Namibia still reverberating, public enterprises minister Leon Jooste yesterday warned state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that the honeymoon is over when it comes to government bailouts.

[Namibian] The chiefs of the different Ovaherero and Nama communities are divided over the draft agreement between the Namibian and German governments on the 1904-1908 genocide as the nation awaits vice president Mbumba Nangolo Mbumba to announce gov...

[Monitor] A s President Museveni unveils his 6th term agenda in the State-of-the-Nation-Address today, Ugandans across the political spectrum have listed a dozen "strategic bottlenecks" facing the country.

[New Republic] The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) has announced to all government officials to declare their assets by July 2021.

[New Zimbabwe] UNITED Food Federation Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe (UFFAWUZ) this week disrupted salary negotiations for the baking industry, a development that will further worsen the plight of over 3 000 workers in the sector.

[Citizen] Konde Music Worldwide CEO Rajab Abdul Kahali a.k.a. Harmonize has indirectly mocked Diamond Platnumz for his BET nomination.

[Daily News] THE government has appealed to the international community to remove economic sanctions imposed on Burundi and provide support to the country to receive its citizens who are returning back home.

[New Zimbabwe] Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube Thursday claimed Zimbabwe had recorded a whopping $9.8 billion budget surplus during the first quarter of 2021.

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa will always vote in favour of the annual United Nations resolution, calling for the end of the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba.

[Observer] Right Honourable Speaker,