[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The Correctional Services department in South Africa says jailed former President Jacob Zuma has been admitted to an outside hospital for medical observation.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela in the country's neighbouring Amhara region, Reuters reports.

[allAfrica] As of August 5, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 6,859,784 while over 48,971,043 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Daily Maverick] The president moves to bolster safety with Sydney Mufamadi appointed national security adviser while Thandi Modise takes over as Defence Minister. Bheki Cele remains minister of police.

[This Day] Abuja -- The United Nations has raised the alarm that North-eastern Nigeria is on the brink of catastrophic food insecurity as 4.4 million people in the area are expected to face critical food shortages.

[The Conversation Africa] At first glance, a recently granted South African patent relating to a "food container based on fractal geometry" seems fairly mundane. The innovation in question involves interlocking food containers that are easy for robot...

[AI London] Celebratory footage of Egyptian military's North Sinai operations shows 'cold-blooded killings', with one man shot at close range while sleeping in a tent Call for Egypt's Public Prosecutor to investigate 'The harrowing scenes in this vi...

[UN News] An "alarming" 80 per cent increase in sexual violence in Somalia, as documented in two recent reports by the Secretary-General, has been described as "appalling" by two UN Special Representatives.

[DW] African children are neglected when it comes to HIV treatment. Without any intervention, many will die before their second birthday, according to a UN report.

[Nation] Turkana County is on high alert over fears of a surge in tuberculosis infections, which officials say could hit 2,500 cases in a year.

[Nation] Kenya will not ban fish imports from China, because there is a severe shortage facing the country, the government has said.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Joining several other countries, including Kenya, Uganda and India, Nigeria's government is in the process of rolling out a digital identity system to enable easier access to public and private services.

[Daily Maverick] The ANC has warned that it would not allow people to 'instigate violence' as it studies another SMS doing the rounds just as some of former president Jacob Zuma's supporters started their planning for his in-person court appearance i...

[SciDev.Net] An invasive weed could escalate the spread of malaria in East Africa after scientists found new evidence that it creates a favourable breeding ground for female mosquitoes, which transmit malaria.

[AIM] Maputo -- Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano has urged the current government to consider the possibility of entering into a dialogue with the terrorist groups operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

[Monitor] This will be Uganda's best outing at the quadrennial Games. The feeling is so sweet it can only be compared to a teenager's first time in a discotheque - the eyes light up ever so brightly, mouth jaw-drops and one starts to feel things they...

[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists] Isabel dos Santos, at one time the wealthiest woman in Africa, must surrender one of her last remaining major assets, a stake in the Portuguese energy company Galp worth an estimated $500 millio...

[Namibian] ZIMBABWEAN-owned and South African-based car maker Mureza Prim8 is set to launch in the Namibian market next month.

[Premium Times] Customs a residential address in Lagos arresting three suspects and seizing 196 sacks containing 7,137 kg of pangolin scales, 4.6 kg of pangolin claws and 846.34 kg of ivory.

[New Zimbabwe] VICE President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has been sitting on the Auditor-General's specially commissioned audit report for the ministry, which looks at potential abuses of Covid-19 funds, despite the fact that it has bee...

[This Day] The Minister of State for Power, Dr. Goddy Jedy Agba, has said about 175 million Nigerians still lack access to clean, reliable and affordable cooking energy.

[Premium Times] The development, according to health experts, is putting more pressure on the country's already overstretched health facilities.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- The Auditor General should institute a forensic audit into all Covid-19 expenditures to ascertain value for money, the Parliamentary Task Force on the national Covid-19 response has recommended.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- The arrest and arraignment of Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe offers a new test for President Samia Suluhu Hassan's pro-democratic gesture, a senior US official observed yesterday.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- The Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court has failed to hear an economic sabotage case against Chadema Chairman, Freeman Mbowe and three others, after technological failures between the court and the prison.

[Citizen] Arusha -- The Switzerland's leading leisure airline, Edelweiss has announced to add Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, as its three new destinations in Tanzania from October, offering a ray of hope to the country's multi-million dolla...

[Vanguard] The Federal Government has okayed the establishment of a specialized court for child offenders.

[The Conversation Africa] History was removed from the Nigerian school curriculum in 2009 - supposedly because students avoided the subject, graduates didn't have job prospects and teachers were scarce. But Nigerians weren't happy with the decision a...

[SAnews.gov.za] The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) will lodge an investigation into allegations of corruption and maladministration in the affairs of the national Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS).

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The President of the Republic is urged to swiftly present a roadmap for the next stage following July 25 measures, the National Observatory for the Defence of the Civil Nature of the State (French: ONDCE) said,...