[allAfrica] "He is the one! That's him!" Those were the words my brother heard before four uniformed men grabbed him at the store five minutes from his home in Port Harcourt, Rivers state where he had stopped to buy baby food.

[New Times] Moise Nkundabarashi, the lawyer representing Callixte Nsabimana alias Sankara, a key suspect in the just-concluded FLN trial, has said that they are yet to decide on the next course of action following the 20-year sentence slapped on his ...

[AI London] AstraZeneca, BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer refuse to participate in initiatives to boost global vaccine supply Fewer than 1% of people in low-income countries fully vaccinated, compared to 55% in rich countries...

[UNSMIL] Tripoli -- The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has received, with concern s, reports that the House of Representatives (HoR) has passed a no-confidence motion against the Government of National Unity (GNU).

[HRW] Dakar -- Release Political Prisoners; Respect Right to Peaceful Assembly

[New Zimbabwe] Chinhoyi magistrate Ruth Moyo has upheld her decision to have the late former president Robert Mugabe's remains exhumed after she dismissed an appeal by his children.

[New Zimbabwe] Economic Justice for Women Project (EJWP) has slammed Finance minister, Mthuli Ncube's policies for accelerating limited participation of women in economic governance issues amid calls for authorities to be gender-sensitive.

[New Zimbabwe] Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga is being sued alongside his two officers by a Chipinge man whose US$24 000 was seized as an exhibit in a fraud case and was never recovered.

[New Times] For a very long time, Jacqueline Dushimirimana struggled to find the right school for her daughter since her condition did not allow her to follow the regular school programme.

[The Conversation Africa] Eleven years ago, in the rugged hills of West Pokot County in Kenya, Mary Alamak, a mother of four, fell ill with the parasitic disease kala-azar while she was pregnant. Her weight fell from 80 to 45 kgs in a matter of weeks...

[The Conversation Africa] The number of COVID-19 cases in Ethiopia has been increasing. The delta variant has been identified recently in the country, but officials are still investigating if it is driving the resurgence.

[The Conversation Africa] The border between Sudan and South Sudan is set to be reopened after 11 years. This follows the two countries reaching an agreement in August to end the decade-long impasse.

[Premium Times] A small minority of businesses, however, reported positive gains during the pandemic.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Somali region branches of the Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (Ezema) and Freedom and Equality Party (FEP) announced their withdrawal from the second round of the 6th national elections. This comes only days ...

[VOA] Nairobi -- The U.S. government is urging the Ethiopian government, rebel group Tigray People's Liberation Front, and other warring factions to end the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region and allow humanitarian aid to reach millions in...

[UN News] With humanity on the edge of an abyss, and moving in the wrong direction, the world must wake up, Secretary-General António Guterres said in his keynote address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

[Nation] MPs plot to amend the law to keep secret campaign donors and election spending, dealing a blow to efforts to enforce accountability in poll financing.

[Nation] The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has reported that more than 300,000 children have died and over one million pushed out of school in 12 years of an insurgency in Nigeria's North East region.

[WHO-AFRO] Kigali -- Rwanda has fully vaccinated 10% of its population against COVID-19, reaching the September global target by the World Health Organization (WHO) aimed at widening vaccination and helping to turn the tide against the pandemic.

[Nyasa Times] Chairperson of the Natural Resources Justice Network (NRJN) Kossam Munthali says corruption continues to deprive Malawi of the much-needed of revenue collection from the mining sector.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario declared on Monday that access to justice remains a major challenge for the great majority of Mozambicans, particularly in the more remote areas of the country, despite efforts mad...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Plans to offer booster shots in richer nations are diverting supplies from unvaccinated, high-risk people in poorer countries, critics say

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- The Nigerian aid group Center for Civilians in Conflict is marking this year's U.N. International Day of Peace with a photo exhibit on the conflict in the country's northeast. The photographs depict some of the millions of civ...

[Premium Times] The Chairperson of the AU had on August 26 tapped Mr Obasanjo to help promote peace, security, stability and political dialogue in the Horn of Africa.

[Premium Times] "We were afraid that we would be killed if we come out but it is not so because we were received without attacking us and we are also being treated humanely since we came out"

[DW] The opposition has accused the ruling SWAPO party of pushing through a joint agreement with Germany over an apology for colonial-era atrocities against the Nama and Herero people. They have called for reparations.

[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- U.S. trade policy toward Africa is facing a conundrum. Much has changed in the two decades since the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) set the framework for trade between the world's largest economy and its poore...

[ISS] The government is performing a delicate balancing act in the interests of advancing justice during a complex political transition.

[East African] Burundi on Monday announced that it had suspended social gatherings on weekdays to curb spread of Covid-19.

[The Herald] Chiefs in Kariba district have resolved to impose stiffer fines on people who fail to report, marry off underage girls in a bid to curb cases of child marriage.