[Vanguard] The United Nations has warned youths not to work against the interest of the country, saying the world won't be able to accommodate 240 million Nigerians as migrants should the country implode.

[New Times] Most hills of two sectors in Remera and Rurenge, Ngoma District, have turned purple, as blossoms of chia seed crop give farmers a hope of unprecedented income at the end of the season again.

[The Herald] Government has promulgated Statutory Instrument (SI) 184 of 2021 that will operationalise the much-awaited agriculture commodities exchange, the Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange (ZMX).

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Lamu -- Island residents in Lamu county rely on the government for potable water, but with supplies running low they say they often have to drink from dirty wells

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- Tanzania has recorded 100 new Covid-19 cases since the third wave of the viral disease broke out across the globe, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Monday.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Federal High Court Lideta Branch 3rd Constitutional and Anti-terrorism Bench has today sentenced Private Mesafint Tigabu to life in prison. The body guard of the late General Seare Mekonnen, was named as the main s...

[East African] The current Covid-19 surge in Africa is proving to be the most brutal in the continent, warn the World Health Organisation's Regional Office for Africa and the Africa CDC, even as the vaccine supply crunch persists.

[East African] Tanzanian Opposition leader Tundu Lissu has said he is ready and willing to return to the country and work with President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

[Africa CDC] Addis Ababa -- The African Union Commission and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) noted with concern recent communications regarding the applicability of the EU Digital COVID Certificate "Green Pass" to d...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A new report released by a parliamentary monitoring organization Mzalendo Trust has revealed that 31 Members of Parliament did not make any contribution during the plenary session last year.

[Daily Maverick] Deputy State Security Minister Zizi Kodwa has acknowledged that he and other ANC leaders could have done more to avoid creating the perception that he was involved in wrongdoing, but he was adamant that the money he received from a f...

[SPS] Seville (Spain) -- The City Council of the San Pablo-Santa Justa district in Seville, Spain, has approved a motion to name a square in the historic city after Sahrawi activist Aminatou Haidar, according to media reports.

[Daily Trust] The Federal Government has said that the nation is conscious of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and is taking necessary measures including provision for oxygen facilities as a preventive measure.

[FrontPageAfrica] Rabat, Morocco -- The Government of Liberia and the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco have signed two separate agreements on the cooperation roadmap for the period 2021-2023 and the cooperation agreement on the exploration and ex...

[Premium Times] South Africa has recorded over 100,000 cases in the last one week, and 20,000 cases in the last 24 hours.

[Vanguard] The current insecurity in the country, especially in the North-East and the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world have worsened the problem of out-of-school children in Nigeria.

[VOA] Saif Al Islam Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan autocrat Moammar Gadhafi, hasn't been seen in public since his rebel captors released him from detention in 2017. But he appears now to be mulling a run for the presidency of the war-torn north Afri...

[The Conversation Africa] The abrupt arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world, creating havoc for economies and social fabrics and taking heavy tolls on lives and livelihoods. Many rich nations have procured and vaccinated a critical mas...

[ISS] Pressure from the public and political opposition is growing, but police reform in South Africa is unlikely to happen anytime soon. An attempt in May by Parliament's Portfolio Committee to discuss changes needed to 'fix' the South African Polic...

[The Conversation Africa] Kenya is constructing a railway line that connects the coastal port of Mombasa and the interior of the country. It is expected to terminate at Malaba, a town on the border with Uganda, and link up with other railways that ar...

[DW] The former ruling party in Tigray said it has taken back control of the regional capital Mekele. The city had been under the control of Ethiopia's federal government for eight months.

[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- The Special Court convened to try the perpetrators of crimes related to the Sudanese revolution, has sentenced a former member of the defunct National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) to death by hanging, for the m...

[Nation] It is more than five years since prevalent stunted growths among children in Northern Kenya were reported, yet there is still no end in sight for children and families suffering devastating impacts on their health and well-being.

[Nation] A cultural purist gang believed to be a scion of the Mungiki sect has erupted in parts of Central region and is forcing women to get circumcised.

[Swazi Media] Pro-democracy protests continued across Swaziland (eSwatini) despite a ban on marching imposed by the kingdom's absolute monarch.

[Premium Times] Burna Boy has achieved this latest feat for the third time since 2019, and this is coming after his Grammy-award win for World Best Music Album in March.

[New Era] A 52-year-old man from northern Namibia, who admitted he stabbed his girlfriend and mother of his two children, was sentenced to an effective 34 years behind bars by Oshakati High Court acting judge David Munsu.

[New Zimbabwe] The Chipinge Town Council has allegedly parcelled the Chipinge Country Club to a Zanu PF senator, Dorothy Mabika, and no public documents are available to support the transaction.

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