[The Conversation Africa] South Africans spent most of mid-July glued to their news outlets, from established media outlets to TikTok, from streaming news to old-fashioned printed words, to see just one thing: would Jacob Zuma blink? Would the countr...

[allAfrica] I am passionate about South Africa despite its painful history: the horrors of Dutch colonization, the segregation that predated apartheid and the deep wound of the apartheid era and its crimes against humanity.

[New Zimbabwe] Government hospitals across the country are overwhelmed by the high number of Covid-19 patients seeking admission and treatment, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said.

[Leadership] The federal government has named four asset managers to manage the $37 billion investment development fund in some sectors of the economy.

[New Zimbabwe] Round diamonds worth an estimated US$140 million dollars have disappeared from the supposedly impenetrable Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) repositories.

[Premium Times] Nigerian newspapers expressed their disdain for the bills in their respective editorials on Tuesday.

[AIM] The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) on 5 July warned that, without urgent funding, one of the world's fasting growing displacement of people, in northern Mozambique, risks becoming a hunger emergency.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in a statement expressed disappointment at the resolution presented by the European Union on the situation of human rights in Tigray and was adopted at the 47th Session of ...

[UN News] UN humanitarians appealed on Tuesday for far quicker access to Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region, after the first aid trucks in days to reach the local capital, Mekelle, encountered multiple checks delaying their arrival.

[African Union] Addis Ababa -- The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, condemns in the strongest terms the surge of violence that has resulted in the deaths of civilians and appalling scenes of the looting of public and ...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Activists in eSwatini went to court to challenge an internet shutdown they say impacts their freedom and livelihoods. Will similar legal challenges arise elsewhere in Africa?

[DW] Rwanda deployed a joint force of army and police to Mozambique's troubled northern province of Cabo Delgado to help fight Islamic State-linked militants. Not everyone is happy about Kigali's move.

[New Frame] As rioters target supermarkets, activists call on the government to help those who cannot survive amid rising prices and mass unemployment.

[SAFA] The Cosafa Tournament has been a rocky ride for the young national team that assembled for camp almost three weeks ago.

[RFI] Tigrayan forces say they have launched a new offensive in northern Ethiopia, two weeks after the federal government declared a unilateral ceasefire, while the United Nations calls for the "verifiable" withdrawal of Eritrean troops from the regi...

[Nation] Muslim clerics in Lamu are agitating for a county by-law to ban Muslim women from riding on boda bodas.

[Nation] One family in Nairobi's Zimmerman estate has been living in agony for a month now after their 14-year-old son, Abraham Nhial, disappeared without a trace on June 5.

[This Day] A total of 222 people have been killed while 774 others have been kidnapped by bandits in Kaduna state in the past three months.

[VOA] Seventy-two people have been killed in riots and looting in South Africa, police said Tuesday, amid protests over the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.

[Daily Trust] Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have busted three major interstate drug cartels supplying illicit substances to some states in the North, recovered skunk and cocaine weighing over 843kg.

[Daily Trust] President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday said Nigeria remained a lucky country to have remained united despite difficult challenges that could have caused a breakup.

[The Conversation Africa] Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the global tourism industry contributed US$9.2 trillion or 10.4%, to global GDP. It was considered one of the fastest-growing industries, accounting for at least one in every four new jobs globa...

[Nation] Garissa County Woman Representative Anab Gure has created a buzz after she was spotted with all-female guards dressed in Muslim attire, carrying guns and magazine holders.

[Radio Dabanga] Port Sudan -- Sudan's Interior Minister, Lt Gen (police) Ezzeldin El Sheikh, who is visiting Port Sudan for an on-the-ground inspection of the security situation, has given a directive that barricades should be removed and streets reo...

[Premium Times] Tuesday made the 40th day since the ban on Twitter in Nigeria, and small business owners are counting their losses.

[AIM] Maputo -- Following an on-site inspection, the Bank of Mozambique on Monday fined one of the country's largest commercial banks, Standard Bank, 290.1 million meticais (about 4.6 million US dollars at current exchange rates) for engaging in frau...

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi declared on Monday that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has given its consent to the deployment of troops from Rwanda in the fight against islamist terrorists in the northern provinc...

[New Republic] The Liberian government through the Ministry of Finance will soon begin a negotiation that will lead to the International Monitor Fund(IMF) to give the country US$350M.

[AIM] A group of 36 former Renamo fighters will, within a matter of days, begin their training for membership of the Mozambican defence and security forces, according to a report on the television station, STV.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- One person, a co-pilot, died on Tuesday while two others sustained burns after a light aircraft conducting a routine locust monitoring exercise crashed in Ndabibi area, Naivasha.