[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] Harare -- As of February 20, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  11,160,281   while over 225,202,633 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[UN News] Internal displacement, regional instability, and climate change have created a refugee crisis in Niger, but an initiative in the town of Ouallam is showing how different communities can work together to survive, and improve the local enviro...

[This Day] Abuja -- Nigerian track star, Blessing Okagbare will head to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), to challenge the 10-year ban slammed on her over the weekend by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), for out of competition doping viola...

[The Conversation Africa] The decolonisation of Mauritius was never fully completed. This is because, in 1965, the British government put islands belonging to Mauritius into a new colonial jurisdiction, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which still...

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe international Tino Kadewere scored his first Ligue 1 goal of the season for Olympique Lyon, helping them to a 1-1 draw away at Lens on Saturday.

[New Zimbabwe] Tens of thousands of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters braved the scorching heat of the afternoon Harare sun and a State-stirred hostile political atmosphere to throng the popular Zimbabwe Grounds in Highfield, Harare wher...

[Egypt Online] Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli Sunday reviewed a report submitted by Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat on the Ookla Speedtest Global Index for measuring internet speeds for the month of January.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The overall construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has exceeded 84 percent, GERD Manager Kifle Horo said.

[New Times] The East African Community countries on Friday, February 18, made a huge step forward by adopting the bloc's tariff offer for Category A products amounting to 90.2 per cent to be liberalised in 10 years after the start of trading under th...

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially commenced today partial power generation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam that has been built in Guba, Benishangul Gumuz Regional State.

[DW] Both the Somalian president and the country's prime minister have rejected the oil exploration deal inked by one of the ministers. The leaders said they are protecting the country's national resources.

[Leadership] The commissioner and chief executive of the Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria (AIB), Akin Olateru, said Nigeria has lost 2,038 lives to aviation accidents in the last 53 years.

[VOA] Abuja -- A Nigerian military airstrike targeting bandits has killed seven children and injured five others in the southern part of neighboring Niger.

[DW] Nigerians celebrated the homecoming of Benin bronzes pillaged during the colonial era. It comes as African leaders are pushing for the restitution of the artifacts from Europe.

[The Conversation Africa] By the year 2000, the government of Ghana had borrowed so much that the country was in debt distress. It then subscribed to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Co...

[The Conversation Africa] Ever since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global public health emergency in January 2020, there's been a need for studies that help explain what people understand by public health messages.

[The Conversation Africa] Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa's most internationally recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over 200 million users.

[AIM] Maputo -- Officers of Mozambique's National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) have seized eleven elephant tusks in a house in the western city of Tete, according to a report in Sunday's on-line issue of the independent daily "O Pais".

[Vanguard] Abuja -- Ahead of next year's general election, an Abuja-based pro-democracy and good governance advocacy group has asked former President Goodluck Jonathan to close ranks with President Muhammadu Buhari and join the ruling All Progressive...

[Nyasa Times] There are fears many people have died after a boat carrying Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) staff and officers from Marine Department of the Malawi Police Services capsized in Chikwawa on the Shire River.

[RFI] Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated electricity production at the controversial, multi-billion-euro Grand Renaissance dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday. Downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan view the project as a threat to their share ...

[New Frame] As Zimbabwe's public healthcare system continues to crumble, many pregnant women are turning to independent midwives to deliver their children.

[New Zimbabwe] A Tsholotsho boy is battling for life at Tsholotsho District Hospital after a bomb he and his brother picked exploded on them, police said Sunday.

[Vanguard] Three kinsmen of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state were Saturday evening reportedly killed by suspected armed herdsmen while returning from a burial ceremony along Iordye- Gbajimba road in Guma Local Government Area of the state.

[Premium Times] Soldiers at a military checkpoint close to the scene of the attack said gunmen have been attacking people and vehicles perceived to be security agencies, the victim said.

[GroundUp] Province offers reason for why more money was not made available to hospitals that picked up the additional patient load

[ENA] Today February 20, 2020 is another day of victory registered by the people and government of Ethiopia adding to a checklist of victories the country has registered and continued to mark in the month of February every year.

[Premium Times] The CJN disclosed some major areas where Nigerian judges lack capacity while receiving some United States officials led by the country's Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard.

[RFI] The population of rare east African kipunji monkeys, recently thought to be on the brink of extinction, has increased by 65 percent in little over a decade thanks to efforts to protect the forests where these creatures live, in Tanzania's south...