[allAfrica] Cape Town -- South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker won the women's 200m breaststroke with a stunning world record time of 2:18.95, the Tokyo 2020 website reports.

[allAfrica] As of July 29 confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 6,582,281 while over 41,897,630 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Daily Trust] Kaduna State Government yesterday said it has filed further charges against the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky under the Treason and Treasonable Offences Act before a Federal High Court.

[Premium Times] Farming, the commonest means of livelihood in these impacted areas, remains a difficult, nearly impossible enterprise due to the sustained Boko Haram conflict.

[New Times] The Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB) is set to roll out a Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) for special needs children - with visual impairment and the ones with hearing loss - a curriculum that will be part of a unit called special nee...

[The Conversation Africa] After the death of Tanzania's president John Pombe Magufuli in March 2021, his successor Samia Suluhu Hassan began her tenure by departing from his undemocratic style. President Hassan inherited a divided nation. But in her ...

[The Conversation Africa] Globally, nights are becoming ever brighter. Increasing urbanisation and the installation of new streetlights, security floodlights and outdoor ornamental lighting all contribute to growing light pollution.

[VOA] Thursday marks the second and final day of the Global Education Summit in London, hosted by Kenya and the United Kingdom. International governments and corporations pledged to donate $4 billion for the Global Partnership for Education, which pr...

[VOA] Nairobi -- The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the continent's death toll from COVID-19 has jumped 17 percent in the past month. In a media briefing Thursday, the Africa CDC said the infection rate has also increase...

[RFI] The 57 migrants who drowned off the coast of Libya on Sunday added to the toll of nearly 1,000 lives lost in the Mediterranean Sea this year alone, the UN agency International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has revealed.

[DW] President Samia Suluhu Hassan has belatedly kicked off Tanzania's COVID-19 vaccination campaign. But the East Africa country still has a long path ahead if it wants beat the coronavirus.

[Africa Renewal] COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa are rapidly ramping up from multiple sources after a near-halt to deliveries in recent months. Nearly 4 million doses from COVAX arrived in Africa last week, compared with just 245 000 doses from ...

[The Conversation Africa] When the United Nations started framing its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2012 - a shared blueprint for working towards global peace and prosperity by 2030 - Africa was the first region to submit its list of priori...

[ISS] A joint effort is needed to prevent the unprecedented attack on Transnet's port operating systems becoming the new normal.

[Premium Times] Mr Kyari is charged alongside five others with offences bordering on wire fraud, conducting financial transactions involving proceeds of unlawful activity, and aiding and abetting illegal use and transfer of a means of identification.

[Premium Times] The government says it puts public safety first, however, and only approves safe seeds and grains for food and feed processing.

[Nation] Jobless Kenyan nurses and other health workers will get a chance to work in the UK as part of a new scheme requested by Kenya, and set to be launched Thursday, Nation has learnt.

[Nation] Kenya is seeking the United Nations' intervention to prevent an influx of refugees and weapons into the country due to the ongoing war in Ethiopia.

[Premium Times] U.S. Department of State described its relationship with Nigeria as "among the most important in sub-Saharan Africa"

[allAfrica] Doris is a 75-year-old woman from Kayaba informal settlement in Nairobi. As with most families in the settlement, her house is a single dilapidated room with mud walls, a corrugated iron roof, and dirt floors. There is no clean running wa...

[This Day] Abuja -- Going by a recent report, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has established over 320 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) ostensibly to muzzle the civil space and propagate its agenda and programmes, while attackin...

[This Day] Abuja -- The federal government said yesterday that it would require about $2.3 trillion cumulatively or $150 billion annually to upgrade the poor state of Nigeria's infrastructure.

[Premium Times] In less than one week, Nigeria has been consistent in smashing previous records of highest daily tallies in months to indicate how swift the unofficial third wave of COVID-19 is spreading.

[The Conversation Africa] Dogs are political. Their very existence in modern cities has goaded those in power into trying to discipline them - and their owners. This has happened in the past too: for instance, authorities trying to modernise Paris in...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican defence and security forces have killed at least 15 alleged terrorists who were trying to cross the Rovuma river into Tanzania, according to a report in Thursday's issue of the independent newsheet "Carta de Mocambique"...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday reported a further 2,460 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, setting a new record for the largest number of cases diagnosed in a single 24 hour period.

[UN News] A teenage girl who was sold for sex for the price of a few beers as a twelve-year-old, has told the United Nations how she was trafficked between Burundi and Tanzania in East Africa.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- Commuter bus operators are now asking for an adjustment in fares so that they can operate profitably.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- President Samia Suluhu Hassan will on Friday July 30 lead hundreds of other Tanzanians at a special ceremony to receive a new Bombardier Dash 8-400 aircraft, at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) in Dar es Sala...

[Seychelles News Agency] The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $20 million loan to support the Seychelles' government budget, said a top official on Thursday.