[allAfrica] Harare -- As of January 18, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  10,373,790 while over 204,912,446 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Leadership] Nigeria has mapped out strategies to launch a second satellite (Sat 2) into the orbit to enhance the communications status of the nation.

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe has seen a sharp decline in Covid-19 cases over the past week, with daily cases dropping from 709 on January 10 to 144 Sunday, according to figures released by the Ministry of Health and Child Care Monday.

[The Conversation Africa] Within a few weeks of the start of a new year and West Africa had its first attempted coup d'état. On January 12 the Burkinabè government announced that it foiled a plot from within the armed forces to destabilise the stat...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Forty-five percent of affluent and high net worth (HNW) Kenyans are said to be planning to retire before the age of 65 years, a study conducted by Standard Chartered has said.

[SAnews.gov.za] The South African government, led by The Presidency, is collaborating with the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development to promote the development of green hydrogen in the country.

[The Conversation Africa] I carried out a little exercise on Google. I searched "Africa", and then "African countries". Top among the 3.4 billion results in the first search and 272 million in the second were stories about the Omicron variant of SARS...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- At least thirty Governors have endorsed ODM leader Raila Odinga's Presidential bid stating they are confident that he will protect devolution as provided for under the Constitution.

[VOA] Yaounde -- Authorities in Cameroon are blaming anglophone separatists for the abduction of eight rubber plantation workers Friday in the country's volatile Southwest region. The country's Agricultural Workers Trade Union is pleading for the wor...

[UN News] Nearly 20 years after the UN Security Council referred the Darfur situation in Sudan to the International Criminal Court (ICC), victims and survivors of atrocities are still seeking justice and accountability, Prosecutor Karim Khan told amb...

[UN News] More than $138 million is needed to assist rural communities affected by extended drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday, launching a comprehensive response plan for the region.

[RFI] More than three decades after the murder of Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, getting to the bottom of who gave the orders for his assassination has been an elusive affair, despite the inception of a long-awaited judicial proc...

[The Conversation Africa] Africa has 357 airlines, the top 10 of which carried more than 60% of traffic. This reflects the fact that many airlines on the continent are very small: some have as few as two aircraft. Between them the airlines carried 95...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -- A new billionaire has been created every 26 hours during the pandemic, deepening the world's wealth divides

[ISS] Dialogue will only work if all involved understand why there's conflict - and commit to ending it.

[DW] The Central Committee of Sudanese doctors say seven civilians have been killed by security forces. UN Security Council members urged "utmost restraint."

[Premium Times] Cholera - a diarrheal disease that can kill within hours if it is not treated - is endemic in Nigeria, with outbreaks reported as far back as the 1970s.

[Premium Times] Bandits have written letters to the nine communities asking them to pay their levies or face deadly attacks

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- Nigerian authorities say the military is responding to a series of killings and kidnappings by gunmen in the country's northwest. In the latest attack, gunmen on motorcycles Saturday raided a village in Kebbi State, killing at...

[VOA] Bamako -- The U.N. peacekeeping mission to Mali, or MINUSMA, said it has temporarily suspended all flights following West African and EU states imposed sanctions that disrupted air and land transport.

[RFI] What appeared to be a historic appearance got even better as Gambia's Scorpions drew against Mali -- one of the AFCON favorites. With four points after two matches, the Scorpions will need just one point in their final match against Tunisia on ...

[Premium Times] Inflation rose to 15.63 per cent in December 2021 compared to 15.40 per cent in November, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Monday.

[New Zimbabwe] Transport Minister Felix Mhona Monday said his ministry stood in solidarity with the police who are on a blitz, impounding unregistered vehicles.

[GroundUp] The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport, Community Safety and Liaison has failed to explain why the construction of a new bridge over the Umdloti River north of Durban, where two people drowned earlier this month, has been stalled since ...

[New Zimbabwe] Daniel Niyata Fussum, who allegedly murdered his father, a diplomat working for the World Health Organisation (WHO) Harare, was denied bail when he appeared in court Monday.

[Nyasa Times] Erstwhile former Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda has been appointed into the Administrative Tribunal of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is yet to fulfill a pledge made to help with medical and other expenses for a man who retrieved bodies of six Grain Marketing Board (GMB) workers in Lion's Den.

[Nyasa Times] The United States Cannabis Association (USCA) has saluted a group of women who cultivate cannabis in Kasungu under the banner of Women of Vision Cannabis Growers.

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe will play Tuesday without the duo of defender Teenage Hadebe and midfielder Kelvin Madzongwe.

[Times of Zambia] The fight against corruption, more often than not, starts as a lone battle and could make the initiator unpopular in some quarters.