[allAfrica] As of January 11, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  10,123,764 while over  197,836,917 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Bern, Switzerland -- Some people in Africa don't have a mailbox; some don't have a physical address, but they are likely to have a smartphone, and they want to do e-business, so they need the post office, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) ...

[Observer] The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission says it has placed Jeanine Milly Cooper, Minister of Agriculture, along with her deputies and all other decision making officers of the Ministry under a full scale corruption investigation for what it...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Senate's Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee is set to conduct a fourteen-day public participation exercise on the divisive Political Parties Amendment Bill.

[VOA] Kongoussi, Burkina Faso -- In male-dominated societies like Burkina Faso, wives are most often blamed when marriages run into trouble. But a project funded by the World Bank is testing the concept of teaching men how to be better husbands by ta...

[ISS] The February African Union summit should tackle vaccines and travel bans, climate change misperceptions and AU financing.

[VOA] Mogadishu -- Somali leaders have agreed to conclude the long-delayed parliamentary and presidential elections by February 25. Somalia's international partners on Monday welcomed the deal but a political stand-off between the president and prime...

[VOA] Yaounde -- Authorities in Cameroon authorities say at least 25,000 villagers in the northeast who fled communal fighting to neighboring Chad last month have returned. But hundreds were left homeless by the fighting between ranchers and fishers,...

[UN News] The Secretary-General, António Guterres, strongly condemned on Monday the "appalling" attacks perpetrated over the weekend in Nigeria's Zamfara State in which scores of civilians were killed.

[RFI] Mali's military regime has strongly condemned West African sanctions, including border closures and a trade embargo, introduced in response to delays to a return to civilian rule.

[DW] EU members have decided to lift a suspension of air travel from several southern African nations. The restriction was imposed to halt the spread of the omicron strain.

[The Conversation Africa] Tensions are mounting in West Africa as Mali resists pressure from the region, the EU and US, to come up with a firm timetable on how civilian rule will be restored after two coups and a military takeover.

[DW] Some 15 million students could go back to the classroom for the first time since March 2020, amidst fears that irreparable damage has been done to their education.

[UN] New York -- The Secretary-General, António Guterres, said on Monday he was deeply saddened by reports that more than 50 civilians were killed and injured in an airstrike in northern Ethiopia, last Friday. 

[UN News] The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, will continue in her role for another five years, the UN chief formally announced on Monday, praising her effective leadership so far in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and...

[UN News] After a recent wave of attempts and coups d'état in Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and Guinea, The UN Special Representative for the region told the Security Council on Monday this resurgence, particularly in West Africa, "is often ...

[This Day] The recent introduction of excise duty on soft drinks will mark the beginning of the decline of the sub-sector in Nigeria, writes Dike Onwuamaeze

[This Day] Strengthens access to justice in the State

[This Day] Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), is one of the notable business rescue procedures introduced by the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 (CAMA 2020). The CVA in CAMA 2020 is modelled after the CVA in the United Kingdom (UK) Insolvency...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya has suspended all inbound and transit passenger flights from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for seven days.

[Nile Post] The leadership of the UPDF and the Congolese army, FADRC has warned of a group of people planning to discredit the ongoing joint operations against the ADF in an operation code-named Shujaa.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya Railway Monday conducted its first trial train cargo from Mombasa to Malaba on the newly constructed link which connects the Standard Gauge Railway(SGR) and Meter Gauge Railway(MGR) in Naivasha.

[Parliament of South Africa] The Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, this afternoon led the Presiding Officers of the House at a meeting with Chief Whips of political parties to discuss alternative venues for official sittin...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- President of the Republic Kaïs Saïed considered, on Monday, that "those who were put under house arrest were supposed to be in prison", pointing to the existence of documents that prove their involvement in m...

[Nile Post] Traffic Police has announced that it is soon mounting spot checks on various roads around the country to check for vaccination cards and adherence to other Covid Standard Operating Procedures for drivers, conductors, passengers and other ...

[Nile Post] The leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP), Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, has lashed out at government for spending trillions of shillings on "patronage and repressive military equipment", leaving the education sector on the bri...

[Nile Post] A total of 15 members of the new rebel group targeting police posts to rob guns have been arraigned before the General Court Martial in Makindye and charged with several offences related to rebel activities.

[White House] Washington, DC -- President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia to discuss the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia and opportunities to advance peace and reconciliation.

[CFR] Recent signs out of Ethiopia are encouraging, but major issues standing in the way of a sustainable peace remain unresolved.

[This Day] Over 150 blind powerlifters drawn from across the country will be slugging it out at the maiden Nigeria Blind Powerlifting/ Bench Press Trials holding between January nine 11 and 13 at the National Stadium Surulere, Lagos