[allAfrica] As of January 19, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 10,401,495 while over 206,390,122 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabweans seeking new electronic passports (e-passports) are failing to access the travel documents with officials at the Registrar General's (RG's) Office saying they were unaware when they will start issuing them.

[Premium Times] Years of ethnic and religious crises in Plateau State have thought residents to live among their own people.

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles' passport remains the most powerful on the African continent for a consecutive year while moving up one place in a global ranking recently published by Henley and Partners for the first quarter of 2022.

[VOA] At least four people were killed and more than 10 others injured after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest at a tea shop outside an army training center in Mogadishu's Wadajir district, police said.

[UN News] With COVID-19, the situation for women human rights defenders and the prospects for women's full participation in building peace, has become "vastly worse", the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday.

[RFI] Mali has asked France for a review of bilateral defence agreements against the backdrop of growing tensions between Paris and the ruling junta in Bamako, a French diplomat has said.

[DW] Although Rwanda says it will not mandate people to take COVID-19 vaccines, some residents -- especially in rural areas -- say officials have been forcing Rwandans to take the jabs.

[African Arguments] The world's first famine caused by climate change rather than conflict continues amid insufficient domestic and global attention.

[ISS] Given South Africa's poor record on implementing the advice of commissions, business and civil society must pitch in.

[Leadership] The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has ordered officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) to shoot dead any person who attempts to attack a prison facility across the country.

[Premium Times] The president launched 13 pyramids of rice paddy.

[CAF] The Comoros beat Ghana 3-2 at the Roumdé Adjia Stadium on Tuesday in the third and final day of Group C, rekindling their hopes. Ghana are officially out of the competition after a game full of emotion and drama.

[RFI] Sudanese forces opened fire on demonstrators Monday, killing seven people, making it one of the bloodiest in a string of protests following a military coup in October.

[Daily News] SOME economic and transport professionals on Monday welcomed the signed agreement between Tanzania and Burundi for the construction of railway to link the two countries, saying the envisaged infrastructure will significantly boost trade ...

[New Zimbabwe] Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, Gideon Gono has been dragged to court for failing to settle a decade-old debt of US$3 million owed to a South Africa-based firm, ASP Marketing.

[GroundUp] Among African states, South Africa is often singled out as the mysterious exception because, according to official estimates, we have fared much worse through the Covid-19 pandemic than most of the continent. But is this true? Almost certa...

[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwean dollar declined by 3,68% on the first day of trading for the year 2022 at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign exchange auction amid sustained production-related spurring disbursements.

[New Zimbabwe] United Kingdom (UK) House of Lords MPs say Zimbabweans living in that country should be allowed to stage peaceful demonstrations at the Zimbabwe Embassy in London to make the life of diplomats at the high commission "uneasy".

[Daily Maverick] John Hlophe ruled that Zandile Mafe's further detention at Valkenberg was unlawful 'and should come to an end with immediate effect'.

[Namibian] Ranga Haikali says he is still the Namibian Football Association (NFA) president even though he was voted out of office at the NFA's annual congress last year.

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[The Herald] FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko must now defend himself on charges that he wrongly ordered the release of two top Zinara officials after Harare regional magistrate Mr Trynos Utahwashe dismissed his application for discharge at t...

[The Herald] POLICE have said some motorists are using fake temporary vehicle number plates to avoid being arrested during the ongoing blitz on unregistered vehicles.

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[This Day] The presidency, yesterday, declared that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has broken the jinx of sitting Presidents and cronies enriching themselves at the expense of the state.

[GroundUp] Striking Clover workers marched through Johannesburg city centre on Tuesday stripping the company's products from shop shelves and leaving them in shopping trolleys.

[AIM] The Higher Council of the Judicial Magistracy (CSMJ), the regulatory body for the law courts, has expelled two judges from the profession for corrupt behaviour, reports "Carta De Moçambique" on 7 January.