[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] As of February 17, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 11,119,737  while over 220,617,343 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- At a press conference this morning French President Emmanuel Macron said that France's military withdrawal from Mali will take four to six months, during which time there will be fewer operations against Islamist militants in...

[The Herald] The High Court has stopped former Vice President Joice Mujuru and three of her children from receiving a dividend from a company whose directorship is being disputed by a fourth child.

[WHO] At the European Union - African Union summit in Brussels today WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced the first six countries that will receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines on the African continent. Egy...

[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville/Lilongwe -- The health authorities in Malawi have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe. This is the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more th...

[UN News] Reported incidents of violence against civilians fell by around 42 per cent in 2021 compared with the previous year, according to a new report released by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Thursday.

[CFR] The harrowing story of Kakwenza Rukirabashaija--a Ugandan writer whose tweets critical of President Yoweri Museveni and his powerful son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, landed him in detention--has made it impossible to pretend that the repression and po...

[Ghanaian Times] Food insecurity has worsened among the Ghanaian population, a survey by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), has revealed.

[UN News] In Madagascar, child sex abuse is "widespread and tolerated" in tourist hotspots, UN-appointed rights experts said on Thursday.

[Premium Times] Growth in the last quarter of the year was however the slowest when compared to the two previous quarters.

[The Conversation Africa] Ethiopian Airlines has announced that it plans to put its Boeing's 737 Max back to service for the first time since the aircraft model was involved in a crash that claimed 157 lives three years ago. Chrystal Zhang has studie...

[The Conversation Africa] Since 2015, crippling sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) and the US have held back the economy of Burundi, a landlocked country of 12.5 million people in east Africa. The sanctions were imposed in response to the g...

[MSF] A vaccination support programme developed by MSF in Khayelitsha in partnership with the Western Cape Department of Health (WCDoH), South Africa has shown that it is possible to target individuals with comorbidities that increase the risk of sev...

[allAfrica] The High Court in Makhanda has dismissed Shell and Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe's application for leave to appeal a ruling that temporarily halted a seismic survey off the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape province.

[The Herald] THE death of legendary left-back Charles Yohane, who was slain in cold blood in South Africa last weekend, has sent shockwaves in the football fraternity.

[Times of Zambia] PARAMOUNT Chief Mpezeni of the Ngoni speaking people of Eastern Province has declared that only people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 will be allowed to attend next week's Nc'wala traditional ceremony.

[The Herald] Victoria Falls -- THE re-opening of Zimbabwe borders has excited players in the tourism sector who say the move would allow free movement of tourists and boost their operations.

[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented the mass migration of African youth to Europe, saying it drains the continent's talent pool, while provoking political crises in Europe.

[MAP] Rabat -- The Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, chaired, Thursday in Rabat, a meeting on the emergency measures needed to cope with the effects of rainfall deficit.

[Daily News] Zanzibar President Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi has revoked the appointment of the Zanzibar Revenue Board (ZRB) Commissioner, Salum Yussuf Ali.

[Daily Maverick] In just a few decades rising sea levels and erosion are set to alter Africa's shoreline, wiping out important heritage sites, some of which are not yet known to science, a new study shows.

[VOA] Johannesburg -- A South African entrepreneur has turned a sweet dream into a reality. He used the government's COVID-19 relief grant to launch an ice cream business that's now creating jobs for others at a time when the country faces record hig...

[DW] African countries were already swamped by trash before the pandemic hit. Now COVID-19 related waste is making the situation worse.

[RFI] Some twenty kilometers away from the 6th EU/AU summit, Belgian's Africa Museum is showing the Human Zoo exhibition, which revives the forgotten history of colonial powers and their practice of creating displays of human beings in live 'exhibits...

[The Conversation Africa] Economists and policy-makers seem to have a blind spot when thinking about how the economy functions and what determines success. Analytical frameworks and government policies consistently neglect the role of space and geogr...

[The Conversation Africa] Whether it's a fancy dinner party or a routine family lunch, meals can be highly social affairs. And patterns of food sharing - or otherwise - can shape or describe relationships.

[The Conversation Africa] When Sadio Mané scored the decisive penalty to secure Senegal's triumph over Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, Isaak, a professional Ghanaian footballer in his late 20s, could not have been further away from t...

[GhanaToday] Ghana, Rwanda and Senegal have partnered with German biotechnology company, BioNTech SE, to fill, finish, and package BioNTech mRNA vaccines in Africa.

[RFI] French President Emmanuel Macron said Frances military withdrawal from Mali does not mean the mission was a failure. The anti-insurgency operation will continue, but based in other countries.