[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of August 17, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 7,296,720 while over 55,904,582 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Premium Times] Bandits invaded Zamfara State College of Agriculture and Animal Science on Sunday and kidnapped 15 students, four staff and killed others.

[CAF] The TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon 2021 will take place from 9 January to 6 February 2022.

[East African] Despite rejection from Addis Ababa, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has said his country will continue pushing for a peaceful solution to end the conflict in Ethiopia.

[New Times] The rollout of shared bikes in the city of Kigali that was expected to start in July has been delayed due to issues related to upgrading the mobile application that will be used for the service, The New Times has learned.

[HRW] Nairobi -- Discriminatory Arrests, Detentions, Business Closures in Addis Ababa

[The Conversation Africa] For thousands of years malaria was a mysterious illness affecting people across the globe. Even the name of the disease, 'malaria', derived from two Italian words meaning 'bad air', highlights the confusion around the transm...

[East African] Kenya's Labour ministry has invited applications from jobless Kenyan nurses looking for a chance to work in the UK.

[Citizen] Kampala -- Uganda is set to temporarily host 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan following the political unrest in the country.

[Monitor] Scientists have said they are facing increasing attacks from some religious leaders over their stance on the prolonged lockdown of places of worship.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- President Samia Suluhu Hassan has today August 17, three new appointments of ambassadors to serve in the country's foreign missions.

[East African] Sao Tome and Principe President Evaristo Carvalho was Monday discharged from hospital, two days after an operation for an inguinal hernia at the Doctor Ayres de Menezes Central Hospital, in capital Sao Tome.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The UN country team in Ethiopia said some 2.4 million people are in need of aid in Somali regional state. The report came amid reports of rising malnutrition and impending water shortage in the region.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Yesterday, at a hearing in Awash Fentale District Court in Afar regional state, where Journalists Abebe Bayu and Yayesew Shimeles of Ethio-Forum, Bekalu Alamrew and Fanuel Kinfu of Awlo Media , the court ordered their ...

[VOA] Abuja -- Nigeria began a second phase of nationwide coronavirus vaccinations Tuesday amid an upsurge in cases of the delta variant.

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Malawi president Lazarus Chakwera has urged southern African leaders to increase efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic and called on wealthy nations to stop hoarding vaccine.

[AI London] The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to urgently address the serious and longstanding issues facing Somalia's healthcare system following years of underinvestment and against a backdrop of crippling debt, Amnesty International s...

[WHO-AFRO] Abidjan/Brazzaville -- Cote d'Ivoire has launched Ebola vaccination of high-risk populations, including health workers and first responders in Abidjan, where an Ebola outbreak was declared on 14 August.

[RFI] A controversial law against pornography in Uganda -- which led to attacks on women wearing miniskirts -- has been scrapped after parts of it were deemed unconstitutional. Women's rights campaigners hailed the decision saying the law had "done m...

[The Conversation Africa] There's been an increase in COVID-19 deaths across Africa since mid-July 2021. But the impact of the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa remains markedly lower compared to the Americas, Europe and Asia.

[DW] Since fighting broke out in November 2020, the conflict in Tigray has spread and could destabilize the whole Horn of Africa region. Here's how it unfolded.

[VOA] With the Taliban's swift takeover in Afghanistan, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari this week warned that the "war on terror" is not over but is shifting to Africa. Writing in the Financial Times newspaper, Buhari said Africa needs more than ...

[ISS] By prioritising liberalism over the formation of strong states, the West opens the door to China and Russia in Africa.

[Premium Times] Food inflation fell to 21.03 per cent in July, compared to 21.83 per cent in June.

[The Conversation Africa] Film impact involves designing and implementing strategies to ensure a social justice film reaches the right audience so it has the best chance to bring about the desired change. Social change takes many forms, from creating...

[The Conversation Africa] Since the record-breaking success of Ramsey Nouah's 2019 sequel to the Nollywood classic, Living in Bondage, the Nigerian film industry has been overtaken by a frenzy of remakes and sequels of classics from the 1990s. These ...

[Monitor] The Ministry of Health has confirmed a polio outbreak in the country. The polio viruses were established on July 21 from two samples collected on June 1 from the sewage plants of Bugolobi and Lubigi in Kampala.

[Daily News] THE Business Registration and Licensing Agency (BRELA) will soon start issuing business licences electronically in efforts to curb corruptions facilitated by face-to-face issuance of the service.

[Nation] The National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) in Tharaka-Nithi County reported it spent Sh3.78 million to award some 600 deserving students bursaries in 2019/20.

[Nation] Low uptake of Covid-19 vaccination could hurt Kenya, with the country risking isolation by the international community, experts have warned.