[allAfrica] As of September 3, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 7,849,029 while over 68,698,355 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[263Chat] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commissioned blocks of flats in Marimba, Harare built as part of government efforts to provide accommodation to frontline workers in the health sector.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- In corresponding statements, the United States States department and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) complained of the worsening humanitarian situation in Tigray, blamed th...

[VOA] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Police in Tanzania say the gunman who killed three police officers and a security guard during a shootout August 25 was a terrorist on a suicide mission.

[UN News] The aid crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray region is worsening, the UN said on Thursday, with stocks of relief aid, cash and fuel "running very low or depleted".

[Nation] Somalia's journalists face daily threats to their lives. But the biggest scare in their daily work is lack of legal protection, according to their lobby, the National Union of Somali Journalists (Nusoj).

[Premium Times] The report of a forensic audit of the NDDC ordered by President Buhari was submitted on Thursday.

[The Conversation Africa] All wars end. So will the Tigray conflict. But when and how will peace come, and will it be sustained? What can we learn from other experiences of war and peace?

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Beirut -- In the blink of an eye, hundreds of African workers in Abu Dhabi had their lives turned upside down by overnight arrests, racist abuse, and unjustified deportations, rights groups say

[ISS] Although armed conflict is the leading cause of people going missing, migration is increasingly becoming a factor.

[Agenzia Fides] Abuja -- "The abductions of school children present us with the prospects of a traumatized generation of young people". The words of the Bishops of Nigeria resound as a grave warning after the kidnapping, yesterday September 1st, of 7...

[Vanguard] The Defence Headquarters disclosed on Thursday that more than 5,890 Bọkọ Haram/ISWAP terrorists comprising foot soldiers and their commanders have so far surrendered with their families to troops in the North East Zone.

[This Day] The Kaduna State Government has banned the transportation of livestock from the state to other parts of the country as part of efforts aimed at tackling insecurity.

[New Frame] A staple food in households in India, the flatbread has made its way to regions and cultures across the globe, where it is enjoyed in all its lip-smacking varieties.

[African Arguments] President Hichilema came to power on a raft of big promises. None will be straightforward to fulfil.

[groundWork] 50 organisations endorse the Plan

[Nation] Kenya will send 20,000 nurses to the United Kingdom as it seeks to improve the welfare of its migrant workers abroad.

[Nation] Security authorities in South Sudan arrested two activists on Wednesday amid claims that they were among individuals behind a planned demo to call for the ouster of President Salva Kiir.

[New Zimbabwe] THE RECALLING of the MDC Alliance Harare city councillors by the Douglas Mwonzora led MDC -T has created an inquorate council which is failing to constitute a quorum.

[Nation] Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) directors Dabar Abdi Maalim and Rose Mghoi Macharia have resigned.

[Nation] Kenya's connectivity is set to improve after the government allocated Sh24.03 billion to tarmac and maintain 18,406km of roads this financial year.

[Nation] Motorists in Nairobi will be charged between Sh75 and Sh90 every hour for street parking in the city centre, if a draft policy by City Hall comes into effect.

[New Zimbabwe] THE National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) has demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration must apologise to the nation over the unending human rights violations perpetrated mainly by suspected state agent...

[New Zimbabwe] WITH 2023 elections drawing closer, a new political party, that has promised to revive the country's struggling economy, has been launched.

[Premium Times] "The bandit can return at any moment. We cannot continue to pay ransom with the little we have for feeding."

[Greenpeace] Responding to its no-show at the ministerial meeting on a proposed global plastics treaty, Greenpeace Africa, groundWork and WWF have expressed deep concerns at the unwillingness of the South African government to showcase country's lead...

[Ayin English] Sudan's recurrent flooding challenges may finally be subsiding as water levels of the Nile and its branches show fewer fluctuations for the first two days of September after reaching critical levels during August. However, the precipit...

[The Conversation Africa] Many of the recent debates about democracy in South Africa point to the danger of growing authoritarianism or stress how the country's colonial and apartheid past continues to shape the present.

[Nation] Juba -- Authorities in South Sudan's Western Equatoria region have discovered at least 50 bodies following weeks of deadly violence in Tambura, County Commissioner Charles Babiro has said.

[Govt of Liberia] The President of the Republic, Dr. George Manneh Weah has reinstated Duannah Kamara as Managing Director of the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) with immediate effect.