[New Frame] The 2021 Afcon has generated the same old voices expressing the same old reluctance to release their African players for the continental showpiece. The time for tolerating this disdainful treatment is over.

[DW] Authorities in Uganda have reversed their decision to demand proof of vaccination against COVID-19 on public transport. The directive attracted great ire among bus and taxi operators, as the country looked set to reopen.

[DW] Russian military advisers are reportedly helping Mali train its security forces. Western countries have criticized Mali for allowing mercenaries from the Russian Wagner Group to operate in the West African nation.

[DW] The Ethiopian government pardoned numerous political prisoners. The effort is part of a larger drive to initiate a "national dialogue" after a year of civil war with forces from the Tigray region.

[African Arguments] Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African contin...

[DW] The Ethiopian government has pardoned numerous political prisoners. The effort is part of a larger drive to initiate a "national dialogue" after a year of civil war with forces from the Tigray region.

[RFI] Just like its younger European brother, the African continent's most prestigious national team competition has arrived a year later than scheduled.

[Nile Post] The leader of the National Unity Platform Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has told the people of Mityana that they will not allow the regime to amend the Constitution to have Parliament elect the president.

[Daily Maverick] South Africa's approach sets a new trend in how countries are choosing to manage the pandemic. Shabir Madhi and colleagues reflects on the boldness - and the risks.

[DW] Ethiopia has released opposition party leader Eskinder Nega after holding him in prison for a year and a half, his party said. Ethiopian state media has reported he was among several government critics set free.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Energy has effected a 15 percent reduction in power tariffs following President Uhuru Kenyatta's declaration in 2021 that was aimed at alleviating the economic burden faced by Kenyans.

[The Conversation Africa] Many South Africans will be familiar with bushbabies - or, at least, with their distinctive call. The small animal, more formally known as the thick-tailed greater galago, takes its common name from that call; it sounds like...

[DW] Ethiopia kicks off its African Cup of Nations campaign on January 9 in Cameroon. The national team seeks to rally the country behind them, as the Horn of Africa nation faces its worst crisis in decades.

[New Era] The Business and Intellectual Property Authority is urging business owners, especially those with dormant close corporations and who do not intend to conduct business in the future, to rather deregister their entities.

[The Herald] THE Zimbabwe Volleyball Association president, Mxolisi Ndlovu, is confident that country's club representatives at this year's Confederation of African Volleyball (CAVB) Zone VI Senior Volleyball Clubs Championships in Maputo, Mozambique...

[New Era] A workplace is a place where employees go to work in the pursuit of fulfilling their employment contracts with an employer. It is a place of work. Places of work should be designed to offer an environment of safety and tranquillity to enabl...

[The Herald] Authorities from Zimbabwe and Kenya are working on paperwork to repatriate a seven-year-old boy from Nkayi who was kidnapped and taken to Kenya in 2016 in a case of human trafficking.

[Ghanaian Times] Community Connect Network, a local NGO, Y& W Industry Limited and a number of Chinese companies donated food items to residents of Adukrom and Kramokrom all in Konongo Odumasi, in the Ashanti Region during the Christmas.

[Ghanaian Times] The Upper East Regional Minister, Stephen Yakubu, has observed that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is the only party which has what it takes to change the destiny of northerners from poverty to economic empowerment.

[Ghanaian Times] A scientist with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr Eric Ashalley, has invented a biosensing device that detects and categorises various bacteria and viruses, including SARS COV-2 (COVID-19 virus).

[Ghanaian Times] A British, who allegedly assaulted an officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), and a journalist, working with Sunyani-based local radio station in the Bono Region, has been arrested by the police.

[Ghanaian Times] Tema -- Carriers of cocoa across warehouses in the country on Wednesday embarked on an indefinite industrial action to demand more pay for their services.

[Ghanaian Times] Despite investing a total of GH¢117.711 million by the government to construct of drains and culverts in flood-prone areas in the country from 2015 to 2019, the problem of flooding persists, with the country experiencing at least on...

[Ghanaian Times] The quest for a vibrant and viable theatre practice in Ghana has been an odyssey journey and long overdue.

[Ghanaian Times] This last quarter of 2021 is showed itself as quite eventful in our country; not least because of the excitement created by the decisions discussions and determinations related to the Anti-LGBT Bill presently under Parliamentary proc...

[Ghanaian Times] The Director of Health Promotion at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Aboagye Da Costa, has been honoured for his humanitarian work and contribution towards the socio- economic development of Kumawu Bodomase and its environsin the Ashanti...

[Ghanaian Times] An unidentified man, believed to be in his early 40s, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging, at Awudome Public Cemetery, in Accra.

[Ghanaian Times] Ghana has recorded 876 more cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID -19), shooting up the country's case count to 148,079 as at last Saturday.

[Ghanaian Times] Today marks the 29th Constitutional Day of the Fourth Republic of Ghana since the coming into force of the 1992 Constitution on January 7, 1993.

[Ghanaian Times] The Founder and Leader of the Ghana Union Movement (GUM), Reverend Christian Kwabena Andrews, is optimistic the party will bounce back and made inroads in the nation's political landscape in the next general election.