[DW] Ivory Coast ex-President Laurent Gbagbo spent a decade outside of the country fighting war crimes charges. His supporters celebrated the politician's return.

[DW] Zambia's charismatic state founder was respected worldwide. But his people suffered from corruption, poverty and an authoritarian one-party regime. The authorities declared three weeks of mourning.

[East African] Gunmen have kidnapped at least six senior civil servants in Cameroon, authorities have said.

[Nation] Civil servants, teachers and lecturers have rejected the government's decision to freeze salary reviews for two years beginning next month.

[East African] Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has declared a seven-day mourning period following the death of Zambia's founding President Kenneth Kaunda.

[Nation] Deputy President William Ruto's search for a running mate in his 2022 State House bid is narrowing down to Mt Kenya and Coast regions following revelations by his western Kenya backers that they will settle for Cabinet posts and the implemen...

[New Zimbabwe] Former First Lady, Grace Mugabe's sister Shuvai Gumbochuma has dragged to court on allegations of grabbing upmarket residential stands belonging to Rumbidzai Ankomah (nee Muzembi) and Xavier Muzembi with a hand from the former.

[Nation] It has been 37 years since their father died and was buried. But Gideon Kihara Njuguna's sons have not had peace.

[Nation] Sierra Leone has reintroduced restrictive measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 after announcing a third wave of infections.

[Vanguard] Despite some positive developments in the Nigeria's economy in recent months the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the economy has sunk deeper than was the case before the COVID-19 pandemic.

[The Conversation Africa] The family Canidae is an instantly recognisable group of carnivores that includes dogs, wolves, jackals and foxes. It originated more than 35 million years ago in North America and migrated to the rest of the planet only abo...

[DW] As President Evariste Ndayishimiye marks one year in office, Burundi is trying to move out of regional isolation. But human rights abuses and a repressive regime are still a cause for concern.

[Africa Renewal] A lack of adherence to transmission prevention measures has fuelled the new surge that coincides with colder seasonal weather in southern Africa and as more contagious variants spread.

[New Frame] Édouard Mendy's Uefa Champions League triumph with Chelsea will go a long way in breaking racist stereotypes that has seen European clubs look down on African goalkeepers.

[East African] Tanzania's ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), has dismissed fresh calls for amendments to the country's constitution.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it is "regrettable to note that the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights made a unilateral announcement on the establishment of a "Commission of Inquiry" and said ...

[Nation] Gunmen have kidnapped at least six senior civil servants in Cameroon, authorities said.

[Nation] The African Union (AU) has launched an inquiry into human rights violations in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, becoming the first continental effort to investigate the conflict that began in November 4 when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a mil...

[VOA] Addis Ababa -- Passersby called the raucous campaigns this week in Addis Ababa "beautiful," with many noting they had never seen political discourse like this before in Ethiopia.

[HRW] Johannesburg -- Surge in State-Sponsored Harassment

[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari has given the marching order to the military and security agencies not to give any breathing space to terrorists and criminals across the country.

[Premium Times] The bandits came to the college on motorcycles reportedly entered the town from neighbouring Rijau forest in Niger State.

[Daily Trust] Barely a week after Nigeria's Government placed an indefinite suspension on the operations of microblogging site, Twitter, the federal government made its debut on an Indian-based social media platform, Koo, which was barely known in Ni...

[Premium Times] She was arrested in October 2020 in the wake of the #EndSARS protests and has since remained in detention.

[The Conversation Africa] Kenneth Kaunda, the former president of Zambia, who has died in hospital in the capital, Lusaka, at the age of 97, was the last of the giants of 20th century African nationalism. He was also one of the few to depart with his...

[GroundUp] A petition signed by 50,000 people opposing the R4.5bn mega-development has been handed over to Mayor Dan Plato

[Nation] Frustrated Kenyans lined up at the Mbagathi Hospital, Nairobi this week hoping to get the second dose of the Covid-19 jab after receiving text messages from the Health Ministry.

[Nation] The national women's handball team of Cameroon will be hoping to win its first ever continental trophy when they face defending champions, Angola in the final of the ongoing 24th edition of the African Handball Confederation (CAHB) Women's A...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Zambia's former president Kenneth Kaunda has died.

[East African] In 2003, the heads of state and government of the African Union recognised that greater public spending on agriculture was needed to eradicate hunger and poverty across the continent.