[allAfrica] As of August 19, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 7,373,106 while over 56,903,903 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Rwandan troops have notched up "remarkable" early successes against insurgents in the Cabo Delgado region of northern Mozambique, reports a civil society observer group. The group also suggests that the Rwandan intervention i...

[allAfrica] As of August 18, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 7,333,148 while over 56,882,881 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Daily Trust] There are doubts that most of the people that are surrendering to military authorities are not actual Boko Haram fighters but those trapped in enclaves, sources told the Daily Trust.

[New Zimbabwe] Police have arrested the suspect involved in the death of a 14 -year-old child Memory Machaya who died while giving birth at a Marange Apostolic Church shrine last month in Manicaland province.

[Nation] Mogadishu -- The Somali government says a joint operation by army and local forces in the central regions have killed 25 Al-Shabaab fighters.

[The Conversation Africa] Dr Emmett Brown, Dr Victor Frankenstein and Dr Henry Jekyll are just three of the "crazy" scientists who populate fiction. Their methods were controversial and revolutionary - and I have always been especially drawn to the c...

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa has among the highest recorded levels of social protest of any country in the world. The reasons behind this are more complex than often assumed.

[RFI] At least seven people have died in flash flooding that hit the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa after torrential rains, officials said on Wednesday.

[Nation] President Uhuru Kenyatta has extended the ongoing nationwide curfew for a further 60 days, citing escalating Covid-19 infections.

[Nation] Kampala -- Senior Ugandan officials held a crisis meeting last evening to thrash out details of a plan to host at least 2,000 refugees fleeing Afghanistan.

[DW] The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan has taken the world by surprise. In Africa it compounds the worry and fear in countries struggling to crush Islamist insurgencies.

[IPS] New York -- Despite a June 30 unilateral ceasefire declaration by Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed, United Nations agencies say a recent escalation in fighting has been 'disastrous' for children, amid reports of over 100 children being killed in ...

[ISS] Governments in the Lake Chad Basin region should use the ongoing departures to cripple the violent extremist group.

[Nigeria Health Watch] Zainab was only 11 years old when she became the fourth wife of a 42-year-old cobbler in her community. She is from Marki, a village in Northern Nigeria where girls are married off at the age of 12 to preserve their purity. Her...

[Premium Times] The federal government is asking a U.S. court to reverse the dismissal of Nigeria's "lack-of-jurisdiction" motion.

[Premium Times] Mr Buhari signed the Petroleum Industry Bill into law on Monday.

[The Conversation Africa] Nnamdi Nwannekaenyi Okwu Kanu is currently one of the most controversial figures in Nigeria. He is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, one of the Biafra separatist organisations, as well as the director of Radio B...

[Nation] At least 11,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled inter-communal clashes between fishermen and herders in Cameroon.

[Unicef] Niamey/Dakar/Geneva/New York -- Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Marie-Pierre Poirier

[AIM] Maputo -- Forces from members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will shortly go into action against ISIS terrorists in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, declared Defence Minister Jaime Neto, cited in Wednesday...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday again reported more recoveries from the Covid-19 respiratory disease than new cases and, as a result, the number of Covid-19 active cases is continuing to fall.

[RFI] Ivorian health authorities are pressing on with vaccinating residents in a neighbourhood of Abidjan where the country's first case of Ebola since 1994 was detected on Monday. Concern is growing after the World Health Organization announced a se...

[Daily News] THE struggle for equality between the sexes is ongoing, although in recent years there has seen a closer parity in the opportunities that are afforded to women.

[East African] Famed Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie once said, "If Michelle Obama had natural hair, Barack Obama would not have won." Now, Kenyan artist Wambui Kamiru Collymore is challenging the perception of black beauty through her new exhibit...

[New Zimbabwe] OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says his arch-rival, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has done a perfect hatchet job by removing "bad apples" in the opposition party.

[RFI] The long-awaited trial for the murder of Thomas Sankara - assassinated in a coup d'etat which brought exiled former president Blaise Compaore to power - has been set for 11 October, military prosecutors have announced.

[The Herald] Law enforcement agents have arrested suspects involved in the death of 14-year-old Memory Machaya who died at Marange Apostolic sect shrine in Bocha while giving birth, legislators heard yesterday.

[Daily Trust] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,149 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 184,593.

[East African] Mogadishu -- The Somali government says a joint operation by army and local forces in the central regions have killed 25 Al-Shabaab fighters.