[allAfrica] Speaking to the portfolio committee on police in Parliament, Police Minister Bheki Cele has said that the unrest that followed former president Jacob Zuma's arrest and imprisonment had an impact on increased crime statistics, IOL reports....

[allAfrica] As of November 19, 2021, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,572,474 while over  135,483,514 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Welcome to AllAfrica's Silence The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. This is Juanita Williams and today we take closer look at  what the road to peace and peacebuilding is for South Sudan, where t...

[allAfrica] Johannesburg -- Four years ago in October, attacks by a few dozen young men on three police stations in Mocimboa da Praia - a district of Cabo Delgado province in northeastern Mozambique - signalled the beginning of an armed conflict in t...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- In January 2011 the people of South Sudan voted in a referendum to secede from Sudan, putting behind them two civil wars which had consumed 39 of the 55 years of Sudanese independence. Six months later, they joyfully celebrat...

[HRW] Nairobi -- Cameroon's armed forces used excessive and lethal force against protesters in Bamenda, North-West region on November 12, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. The protesters were calling for justice for the police killing that day of...

[Nile Post] Security has announced the arrest of at least 21 people suspected to have participated in the Tuesday twin blasts near the Central Police Station in Kampala and Jubilee building along Parliamentary Avenue in Kampala.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Sudan's capital city Khartoum has been shaken by rising deaths - now at 39 - during protests against the military's seizure of power in a coup in October 2021. The country saw its civilian prime minister Abdalla Hamdok placed...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Game rangers, vets, casino staff, construction and transport industry workers, as well as customs and other government officials, have been identified as role-players in the ecosystem of illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The Nigerian police are failing rape victims by not supporting and investigating the crime when reported, rights groups Amnesty International has said.

[HRW] Nairobi -- Ensure Justice for Police Killing of Schoolgirl that Sparked Protests

[The Herald] He stood at the podium with a sombre face, but spoke firmly of a disaster that changed Zimbabwe in general and Chimanimani in particular, the tragedy of climate change.

[Monitor] The High Court in Kampala has directed the Education ministry to quickly develop and implement the comprehensive sexuality education policy for school learners, ending a 10-year wait.

[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria's Lagos State government recently announced that private health facilities will start administering COVID-19 vaccines within the state. This is part of its effort to accelerate vaccine rollout beyond the 1.2 million ...

[The Conversation Africa] Awukye received a 10-year prison sentence in Ghana for cannabis possession. The experience, he said, shattered his family's dreams. Michael Anami, a Kenyan, recalled the "multiple arrests, beatings, incarcerations, and untim...

[East African] Low speed limits with accompanying speeding fines has caused an uproar in Rwanda's capital Kigali with some motorists saying that the speed limits (40-60km/hr) around the city are unreasonable.

[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- A heavy military presence on all roads and squared in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, has "turned the city into a military barracks since Wednesday morning," in anticipation of the November 17 anti-coup marches, Feisal E...

[Nation] Sudanese authorities on Thursday evening switched internet services back on, albeit partially.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- At today's biweekly press briefings, Ambassador Dina Mufti, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia (MoFA) discussed the return of the special envoys of the African Union and the United states t...

[Nation] A court in Sudan on Tuesday refused to release key suspects in the 1989 coup that brought to power Omar al-Bashir, who himself was ousted in April 2019.

[Nation] Somalia's federal electoral agency is urging all regional polls supervisors to ensure that at least 30 percent of seats in the Lower House go to women.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Government Communication Service announced that the government was working to end the war in a short period of time.

[VOA] U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters Thursday that six U.N. staff members had been released but five others, along with one of their dependents, remain in detention in Addis Ababa.

[VOA] Yaounde -- Authorities in Cameroon say fewer than 300 of a targeted 300,000 state workers have agreed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks into a campaign. Some civil servants who spoke to VOA hold a mistaken belief that the virus is no ...

[HRW] More Effort Needed to Ensure Transparent Accountability and Compensation

[State Department] The President today revoked an Executive Order, thereby terminating the Burundi sanctions program and related visa restrictions. As a result, the sanctions and visa restrictions imposed on the eleven individuals designated under th...

[UN News] The international community must step up support to Madagascar, where more than one million people in the south are facing severe hunger, the top UN aid official there said on Thursday in a renewed appeal for solidarity and funding.

[UN News] At least 39 people have been killed by security forces in Sudan since the 25 October military coup, 15 of whom were reportedly shot dead on Wednesday, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

[Premium Times] "A recent and most worrisome move by the criminals is the observed acquisition of Radio Frequency Walkie Talkie Transceivers by the bandits," the Secretary to the State government says

[Daily Trust] The rise of food prices and basic household items could push some more than six million Nigerians into poverty, a World Bank report suggested.