[allAfrica] As of November 11, 2021, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  8,544,078 while over  125,503,345 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- South Africa has been waiting for news of the wellbeing of four brothers who were kidnapped on their way to school three weeks ago. Today (November 11, 2021) it has been confirmed that the Moti brothers - Zia,15, Zayyad, 11, ...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- At least 11 University of Buea students were wounded after a bomb was thrown onto the roof of a lecture hall in Cameroon's restive Anglophone region of Southwest.

[RFI] Morocco's foreign minister says the kingdom is committed to finding a solution to the "artificial conflict" in Western Sahara but ruled out negotiating its rights to the territory - at the heart of an ongoing dispute with neighbouring Algeria.

[RFI] A South African court has ordered the extradition of former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang to the United States to face charges related to a $2 billion debt scandal, overturning a decision by South Africa's justice minister to send hi...

[DW] The organization says the detentions amount to "a de facto humanitarian blockade." News of the detentions follows a day after 22 UN staff were arrested in the capital Addis Ababa.

[Africa Renewal] Forest loss in DRC is exacerbated by extreme poverty, mainly due to a growing population lacking livelihood

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Lawyers and activists have presented a petition to the government demanding respect for the rule of law following increased cases of abductions and enforced disappearance.

[The Conversation Africa] The African continent is heating up more, and faster, than other regions in the world according to the recently released State of Climate in Africa Report. By 2030, the report says up to 118 million extremely poor people wil...

[ISS] Moving communities at risk is better than dealing with emergencies, but relocations have a fraught political history in Africa.

[Daily Trust] The Senate on Tuesday held a minute silence to mourn the killing of over 120 Nigerians by bandits at Gorony market in Sokoto State.

[VOA] Mogadishu, Somalia -- A 15-member team of the African Union Peace and Security Council met with senior Somali officials in Mogadishu on Tuesday and discussed the future of AMISOM peacekeeping operations. Tensions are running high after the Soma...

[Premium Times] The approved loan is under the federal government's 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan.

[WHO] The largest increase in unvaccinated children in 20 years and critical gaps in disease surveillance increase risk of measles outbreaks, putting lives at risk: WHO, CDC

[WHO-AFRO] The World Health Organization (WHO) has reaffirmed its commitment to support the country in eradicating Tuberculosis (TB), one of the top infectious killer diseases in the world.

[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria recently became the first African country to introduce a digital currency. It joins the Bahamas and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in being among the first jurisdictions in the world to roll out national digital ...

[spotlight] Children living with HIV have to take multiple different antiretroviral (ARV) pills or syrups twice a day, while most adults in South Africa have been offered one pill once a day regimens for around a decade. At the recent South African H...

[GroundUp] Residents of Powerline informal settlement in Gqeberha say their portable toilets are filled to the brim with faeces. Rubbish is strewn everywhere and water tanks in the community have not been refilled for a month.

[Nation] For about eight months, HIV-positive mothers have been unable to know the status of their newborns because of the unavailability of early infant diagnosis kits.

[Vanguard] Abuja -- Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned trial of detained leader of the

[This Day] Two more bodies have been recovered from the site of the collapsed high-rise buildings in Ikoyi, bringing the number of the dead to 45.

[Daily News] NKASI district in Rukwa is out to market Kabwe port to its neighbours across the Lake Tanganyika in a bid to boost cross border business.

[Premium Times] Six anti-graft agencies enjoy an increase in allocations in the proposed 2022 budget while the seventh suffers a cut.

[Daily News] Tanzania confirmed Wednesday a total of 725 coronavirus fatalities from more than 26,160 cases that had been reported since the deadly virus was first detected in the East African country.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Education Principal Secretary Julius Jwan has ordered school boards to hold crisis meetings to find ways of ending school fires as cases intensify.

[UNFPA] Mekelle -- "They have saved my life and that of my daughter. I stayed under their care the whole night and delivered my baby girl safely," says Selam, the first mother to deliver her baby at the camp for internally displaced persons at Sabaca...

[VOA] Johannesburg -- Like many nations hit by COVID-19, South Africa has seen rising unemployment and hunger since the onset of the pandemic. One school - the Green Business College - is tackling those issues in innovative ways, giving people the sk...

[WHO] Joint Statement of the Multilateral Leaders Task Force on Scaling COVID-19 Tools

[Premium Times] Nigeria has already surpassed the number of TB cases notified in 2020 by seven per cent.

[Premium Times] Only 10 per cent of the registered voters in the state voted during the 2021 governorship election.