[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] As of April 8, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  11,435,999 while over  273,178,717 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[VOA] Johannesburg -- It's the classic postcard image of Ghana: brightly colored, narrow wooden fishing boats pulling into the dock of seaside village, bringing in the daily catch. But increasingly this way of life is under threat, with a new investi...

[VOA] Geneva -- A study by the World Health Organization finds the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa to be a fraction of the true number of people infected with the coronavirus that causes the disease.

[IPS] Accra, Ghana -- How would the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu have reacted to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine? Differently than you might think.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A group of young girls, some carrying infants on their backs go around cars asking for bucks in the bustling streets around the traffic light stop in Figa Sahlite Mihret in Bole sub-city of the capital. From a distance...

[VOA] Political analysts say a quest for ever-greater power by Tunisian President Kais Saied risks sending the nation back to pre-revolutionary times of "strongman" rule.

[VOA] The European Union's rights envoy, Eamon Gilmore, in a visit to Uganda, has condemned rights abuses by security forces against critics, including torture and forced disappearances. A Uganda government spokesman has denied the accusation of syst...

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Malawi's attorney general has apologized for police detaining a journalist and trying to force him to reveal his sources on a government corruption story. The rare public apology came after the government faced criticism fro...

[UN News] Although girls have more difficulty accessing education and make up most out-of-school children at the primary level, challenges facing boys are increasing at later stages, according to a report published on Wednesday by the UN Educational,...

[UN News] The UN paid tribute on Thursday [April 7] to the one million people who were murdered in 100 days during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, during which moderate Hutu, Twa and others who opposed the genocide, were also killed.

[Daily Maverick] The South African Reserve Bank, in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group, this week released a second report looking at the use of distributed ledger technology for interbank payments settlement, taking it on...

[DW] More than 34 years after Thomas Sankara's assassination, a trial to establish the facts has taken place. For some, justice that has been delayed for deceades is finally being served.

[IPS] Nairobi, Kenya -- Marisol Ntalami is one of 747,161 candidates who sat for the national Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education in 2020.

[Premium Times] Russia had warned countries that a yes vote or abstention on a U.S. push to suspend the country from the Human Rights Council would be viewed as an "unfriendly gesture" with consequences for bilateral ties.

[UN News] The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday calling for Russia to be suspended from the Human Rights Council.

[Premium Times] According to Mr Soyinka, what he said at the time was "do not vote for Jonathan."

[ISS] The brazen targeting of transport and state infrastructure reflects a security breakdown that threatens lives and economic prospects.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- A spate of up to seven murders over the past weekend has driven tension in the Gauteng township of Diepsloot, over the past several days, Times Live reports. Residents threatened to shut down the area and called for greater ...

[Premium Times] The brazen targeting of transport and state infrastructure reflects a security breakdown that threatens lives and economic prospects.

[RFI] Mali says military investigators have opened an investigation into events in the village of Moura, the site of an alleged massacre by local forces and Russian mercenaries.

[Nigeria Health Watch] Today, April 7, is World Health Day, an important day by any standard; one which draws attention to a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world. The theme for World Health Day in 2021 hinged on building a fa...

[New Era] President Hage Geingob has castigated some descendants of the victims of the 1904-08 Nama-Ovaherero genocide for demanding that government steps aside as far as negotiations with Germany are concerned.

[We Cannot Wait Consortium] We as the women's rights activists of the We Cannot Wait Consortium* are in mourning after the loss of MP Amina Mohamed Abdi who was killed along with 47 others in a suicide bomb attack in Beledweyn. Amina was a member of ...

[New Zimbabwe] ZAPU has condemned the murder of a Zimbabwean man in Diepsloot, North of Johannesburg by a xenophobic South African mob hunting foreigners residing in the area.

[New Zimbabwe] A MUREHWA man, Elliot Rewu (38) has been caged 30 years for murdering his father in cold blood over witchcraft allegations.

[ANGOP] Malanje -- The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, António de Assis, highlighted today, Thursday, the resilience that the sector has been showing in face of the limitations imposed by Covid-19 in the last three years, providing food to th...

[Dabanga] The Hague -- Appearing for the second day before Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (known as 'Ali Kushayb') has reiterated his denial of guilt in an unswo...

[UN News] The UN's peacekeeping chief in Mali on Thursday, made an urgent call for adequate resources for the mission to carry out its mandate, and meet the growing demand to address a deteriorating security situation across the north and centre of t...

[UN News] The war in Ukraine has increased the risk of a "massive malnutrition crisis" for millions of children in other emergencies because of its already huge impact on global food prices, the UN said on Thursday.