[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Amid the explosive cocktail of ingredients which contributed to the outbreak of looting and burning in South Africa this week, new fault-lines running through a society divided by class as well as by race were on display as n...

[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- The White House is announcing today that the Biden administration will donate approximately 25 million COVID-19 vaccines to be distributed in Africa. Planned to be made in the next few days are shipments of the Johnson ...

[allAfrica] As of July 16 confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 6,115,401 while over 38,546,648 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[VOA] Nairobi -- The conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region appears to be escalating, with reports that Tigrayan and Amhara forces are recruiting more youths to fight in the country's north. Aid agencies are warning that a drawn-out war in Ethiopia wou...

[UCT] A team of scientists, including those from the University of Cape Town (UCT), have developed a new diagnostic methodology enabling a non-invasive, fast and highly accurate way of detecting tuberculosis (TB).

[AI London] Arrests seem ethnically motivated and while some people released on bail, hundreds remain in detention

[Namibian] President Hage Geingob yesterday during the country's 31st Covid-19 public briefing on national response measures at State House said the looting and unrest in neighbouring South Africa (SA) should be a wake-up call for Namibia.

[Namibia Economist] Despite struggling through a severely stunted phase, the Namibian hospitality trade made history earlier this month when the General Manager of Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre, Janet Wilson-Moore was elected as the first w...

[Premium Times] "This implies that prices continued to rise in June 2021 but at a slightly slower rise than it did in May 2021," NBS said.

[New Zimbabwe] Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo says Zanu PF has become a military outfit working against the interests of the majority of the country's citizens.

[Ethiopian Herald] 392 million seedlings planted in 12-hour

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Ministry of Land and Environment on Friday stated that 827,547 seedlings of both native and exotic species of plants were planted across the country between September 2020 and last June, covering 4,609 hectares, with th...

[AIM] Maputo -- In his address to the nation on Thursday night, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced that the government has acquired 11 million more doses of vaccine against Covid-19, which should reach the country by the end of August.

[Monitor] By Damali Mukhaye

[GAVI] Geneva -- Following close collaboration between the African Union (AU)/ African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT), COVAX and the United States Government, AU Member States are set to receive approximately 25 million COVID-19 vaccines to enhan...

[Namibian] An elephant cow with a broken leg was put down by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism near the settlement of Fransfontein on Tuesday.

[JusticeInfo.net] On July 14, Yankuba Touray was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The former Minister of Local Government in the early days of Gambia's military junta is the first former senior member of Yahya Jammeh's regime to be trie...

[Namibian] Two more Namibian sporting greats, Dee Thakur and Adri Basson passed away this week due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

[263Chat] The violent events that unfolded in South Africa this past week present renewed purpose for some serious soul searching by Zimbabwe's economic decision makers on how to model the economy out of the dependency on its neighbor to the south fo...

[Namibian] Namibia largely depends on South Africa for most goods due to supermarkets stocking mostly South African goods.

[Namibian] Protests driven by the Covid-19 pandemic's economic fallout are on the rise, with potentially long-lasting economic consequences.

[Citizen] Zanzibar -- Zanzibar has placed more orders for Covid-19 jabs as vaccination of health workers kicks off on the Isles.

[East African] When Somalia's former Foreign Affairs minister Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam announced her candidacy for president in the next elections, the reaction in Mogadishu was mostly muted.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The trial of Gibril Massaquoi, the Sierra Leonean former Revolutionary United Front commander accused of committing war crimes in Liberia's civil wars, will return to Liberia, likely in August.

[Govt of SA] President Cyril Ramaphosa will this morning, Friday, 16 July 2021, undertake an oversight visit to Ethekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, to assess the impact of recent public violence and the deployment of security forces.

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa will today undertake an oversight visit to eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, to assess the impact of recent public violence and the deployment of security forces.

[New Zimbabwe] Deputy Health Minister John Mangwiro has revealed that health ministry officials are grappling with a high turnout of Zambian citizens flocking to Chirundu Town to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

[The Herald] Germany has contributed EUR 3 million to the World Food Programme to support vulnerable communities in Zimbabwe to meet basic food needs amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

[New Zimbabwe] The ruling Zanu PF government will not meddle in the ongoing disturbances happening in neighbouring South Africa where mass looting and protests have left over 70 people dead in the past week.

[New Zimbabwe] Human Rights organisation, the Zimbabwe Peace Project says the Public Health Order gazetted by the government to contain and treat the Covid-19 virus remained largely punitive as it continued violating the rights of the citizens.