[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Newly elected President Hakainde Hichilema fired Zambia Police Service Inspector General Kakoma Kanganja and all service chiefs and their deputies barely a week after his inauguration.

[Nyasa Times] President Lazarus Chakwera's Executive Assistant and Director of Communications at State House Sean Kampondeni on Monday, August 30, 2021 told journalists the President will not travel to New York in United States (US) for this year's U...

[Radio Dabanga] New York -- Sudan is yet to account for hundreds of political dissents forcefully disappeared during the deposed Al Bashir regime and during the 2018-2019 national revolution. Those missing during these periods also remain uncounted f...

[The Herald] Chief Court Reporter.

[Premium Times] "...any plan to increase electricity or petrol will be a wrong step and the organised labour will do everything within its capacity to resist it."

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Public Prosecutor's Office at the Kasserine Court of First Instance, on Monday, ordered to place an individual in custody for allegedly having helped president of Qalb Tounes party Nabil Karoui and his brot...

[East African] Truck drivers' strike at Elegu border post on the Uganda-South Sudan border has entered the second week, interrupting the flow of goods to South Sudan and raising fears the Juba may soon run short of supplies.

[VOA] Updated August 30, 2021 02:33 PM - Planned protests against South Sudan's government failed to materialize Monday amid a heavy deployment of security forces in the capital, Juba, and a nationwide disruption of internet service.

[Nation] South Sudan experienced an internet blackout for more than 15 hours, which the government described as a technical issue.

[Nation] A five-storey residential building has collapsed in Gachie, Kiambu County.

[Daily Trust] Aside Jackie B and Jaypaul, winners of the Head of House game, all other housemates in the ongoing edition of Big Brother Naija are up for possible eviction.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Bulawayo -- The government says more coal mining will create jobs and give the country's power supply a much-needed boost, but critics warn the environmental cost is too high

[African Arguments] President Saied's sacking of the government may be popular, but what Tunisia needs is to strengthen its democracy, not dismantle it.

[ISS] Although the trade is banned in Kenya, traffickers are profiting from gaps in the laws of neighbouring countries.

[Nigeria Health Watch] Any form of violence against women and girls is a human rights violation. Based on World Health Organisation estimates, one in three women are subjected to physical or sexual violence. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, reports have ...

[Premium Times] The finance minister says insecurity and other factors slowed growth in the agriculture sector, thereby denying the economy a stronger growth rate.

[Premium Times] PREMIUM TIMES calls on the Federal and State Governments to show respect to our doctors and other medical personnel.

[The Conversation Africa] The first case of fatal Marburg virus disease was identified in Guinea, West Africa on 9 August 2021. Marburg is a highly infectious zoonotic haemorrhagic fever transmitted to people from fruit bats, specifically the Egyptia...

[The Conversation Africa] A new report has been released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the UN's authority on climate change - which revealed the latest research on how the Earth is changing and what those changes will mean...

[UNEP] Nairobi -- Official end of use of leaded petrol will prevent more than 1.2 million premature deaths and save USD 2.45 trillion a year The end of leaded petrol follows a 19-year campaign led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners ...

[SAnews.gov.za] Recently published research has revealed that the new COVID-19 variant C.1.2 has been identified in South Africa.

[Unicef] JOHANNESBURG - The ONE Campaign, UNICEF and the African Union have today launched a new TikTok campaign, to counter misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines on social media.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of August 30, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 7,744,572 while over 63,371,434 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[New Zimbabwe] A nine-year-old Gwanda based primary school pupil has filed an urgent High Court application seeking an order barring teachers from embarking on strike.

[Premium Times] Security experts and lawyers dismiss a bill before the Nigerian Senate seeking to criminalise ransom payment to kidnappers as both insensitive and impractical

[New Zimbabwe] Seven people died while 13 others were seriously injured after the vehicle they were travelling in veered off the road, overturned once and landed on its side in Honde Valley Sunday.

[New Zimbabwe] Disgruntled liberation war veterans have drawn daggers against President Emerson Mnangagwa accusing him of betraying them.

[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwe Independent newspaper is suing the government for refusing to release information regarding the procurement of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses.

[Daily News] THE East African Community (EAC) Secretary General Peter Mathuki has commended the Centre on Small Arms in the Great Lakes Region, Horn of Africa and Bordering States (RECSA) commitment in preventing, combating and eradicating the illici...

[New Zimbabwe] INDEPENDENT Norton MP Themba Mliswa says he has no appetite for women below 35.