[allAfrica] As of January 10, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 10,092,830 while over 196,741,231 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[DW] Aid organizations have halted humanitarian efforts following the latest air raid in Ethiopia's Tigray region. The strike reportedly killed civilians in a camp for displaced people.

[New Times] Local oncologists have launched a writing contest, where survivors and other people who have cancer-related stories can share their experience, in an initiative aimed at fighting stigma and myths about the disease in the country.

[The Herald] Victoria Falls Reporter

[Nyasa Times] Malawi's Attorney General, Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda has issued out a 60 day amnesty to all alleged crooked companies and individuals who have defrauded the public purse in their business dealings or illegally acquired wealth through procu...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Political leaders were united Sunday in condemning Meru Senator Mithika Linturi's remarks which authorities said border on hate speech when he urged locals to remove people not supportive of Deputy President William Ruto's bid...

[New Times] Rwandan defence and security chiefs alongside their Mozambican counterparts on Sunday agreed to establish joint security teams that will among others design new strategies to improve the stabilization and security sector reform process in...

[Premium Times] About 200 people were killed in Zamfara during attacks by bandits.

[RFI] Author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has been tortured, held incommunicado, and not yet formally charged since he was detained 14 days ago, says his lawyer, Eron Kiiza, following criticism the award-winning Ugandan writer leveled at Museveni and his ...

[RFI] African football chiefs on Sunday told sides competing at the Cup of Nations that they will not be able to use mass coronavirus infections in the squad as an excuse and will have to play their fixtures as long as 11 players are fit.

[DW] Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is suspected of using fake social media accounts to consolidate his power. He wouldn't be the only one in Africa. Is social media becoming a threat to democracy on the continent?

[DW] One of Sudan's leading protest organizers has refused a UN call for dialogue aimed at restoring civilian rule. The UN has hoped to broker talks between the anti-coup movement and the military.

[CAF] The Blue Sharks of Cape Verde needed a first-half stoppage time goal to beat Ethiopia 1-0 in their TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon 2021 opener at the Olembe Stadium in Yaoundé.

[CAF] Indomitable Lions captain Vincent Aboubakar scored twice to give host nation Cameroon a 2-1 victory over Burkina Faso in the opening match of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon 2021.

[The Conversation Africa] Many African cities struggle to supply safe, potable water to their residents. One of the main reasons for this is urbanisation; cities' populations grow rapidly as more people move to them from rural areas.

[The Conversation Africa] Flooding is one of the most prevalent and devastating disasters in Nigerian cities. It happens every year in many states of Nigeria. And it has significant social and economic impacts. In 2010, approximately 1550 people died...

[The Conversation Africa] In mid-2015 the German Foreign Ministry admitted that the war the country had waged against the local communities of the Ovaherero and Nama (and the Damara and San) between 1904 and 1908 in German South West Africa (now Nami...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Police have arrested ninety-one Ethiopian nationals who were in the country illegally during a crackdown in Kitengela, Kajiado.

[The Herald] THE steel manufacturing sector has welcomed Government's decision to ban export of chrome ore saying this will assist local players to secure ferrochrome for their operations at competitive prices.

[Premium Times] The Commissioner for Education, Halima Lawal, gave the directive in Kaduna on Sunday in a notice for school resumption for second term of the 2021/2022 academic session.

[Premium Times] But a reliable source confirmed that the unionists have said they could only trust the government when they receive a circular containing the contents as agreed at the meeting.

[VOA] Accra -- West African leaders will gather Sunday to discuss Mali's political crisis, with the military junta submitting a new timeframe for a transition back to civilian rule at the last minute after its first proposal was rejected.

[CAF] World's leading broadcasters ready to beam 2021 TotalEnergies AFCON across the globe

[The Conversation Africa] Many newly independent African countries in the 1960s inherited regional and ethnic inequalities in formal educational attainment. These new states bound together sub-national regions of diverse ethnic and religious communit...

[This Day] As damning as a recent report that Nigeria may have lost about 200 million barrels to organised theft in the first 11 months of 2021 would seem, it came as no surprise. Going by figures from the Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Petroleum Commi...

[This Day] The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have agreed to strengthen cooperation in the execution of their respective mandates in the country's common interest.

[This Day] On the heels of meeting the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) 65 per cent Loan-to-Deposit (LDR) ratio policy, banks and merchant banks deposit with the apex bank dropped by 58.14 per cent in 2021.

[This Day] Port Harcourt -- The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), has described the Niger Delta as the most peaceful and stable region in the country for people to live and do business.

[The Herald] Senior Reporter

[The Herald] A FORMER Econet Wireless employee appeared in court on allegations of duping people of various amounts in rechargeable airtime he would reverse back into his account after people had purchased from him through Ecocash.