[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[SAnews.gov.za] The Kwazulu-Natal Disaster Management Centre has activated support from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) as heavy rains continue to batter parts of the province.

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's electricity sector has faced a series of challenges over the last two decades. It started with inadequate grid infrastructure to provide electricity to the majority of the South African population in the 1990s...

[The Conversation Africa] The continued institutional reproduction of inequality is a matter of growing concern in vast parts of the world. This concern manifests differently in different regions. It is evident in protests, uprisings and unrest.

[The Conversation Africa] At first glance, the creation in 2014 of the G5 Sahel, an international organisation set up to deal with conflict management in the Sahel, seemed unlikely. Some analysts were already describing a "security traffic jam" in th...

[WHO-AFRO] Accra/Brazzaville -- Noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes are increasingly becoming the main cause of mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, where the diseases were responsible for 37% of deaths in 2019, ...

[VOA] Mogadishu -- Somalia's first women-run radio and television outlet has opened in the capital, Mogadishu. United Nations-supported Bilan Media will produce content aimed at addressing issues affecting women and champion women's rights in the con...

[UN News] Although safe and effective COVID-19 vaccinations are available, the pandemic is still far from over, and countries affected by conflict are in danger of being left behind, the UN Security Council heard on Monday.

[Africa Renewal] The 32nd Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Africa being held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, starts from 11 to 14 April 2022

[Atlantic Council] It was only a year ago that Sudan--newly removed from the US terrorism list--was negotiating the terms of its upcoming debt-relief package and proposing ways to invest more than one billion dollars in promised international financi...

[DW] The EU will wind down some operations due to continued cooperation between Russian mercenaries and Mali's junta. But the EU says it remains committed to the region.

[The Conversation Africa] When astronomers dream of their ideal telescopes, it's not that different to what people want from their TVs and computer monitors. Images they produce should be large and high definition, such as those from the Australian S...

[ISS] All troops in the country must agree on a joint vision to end the crisis in Cabo Delgado.

[Vanguard] With the declaration of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to vie for the presidency, 35 aspirants have officially joined the race to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

[This Day] Nigeria and 12 other countries in sub-Saharan Africa are yet to surpass 10 per cent fulll vaccination of their populationagainst the COVID-19 pandemic, a report released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) ...

[The Conversation Africa] After the death of President John Magufuli on 17 March 2021, Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan became Tanzania's sixth president, and the first woman in the office.

[VOA] Abuja -- Police in Nigeria's central Plateau state say they have sent extra officers to nine villages where gunmen on Sunday reportedly killed more than 70 people and burned down houses. Police and locals say hundreds of villagers have fled the...

[Premium Times] The approval gives the firm the leave to operate virtually all the services offered by conventional commercial banks except granting credit and processing foreign exchange transactions.

[The Herald] GOVERNMENT will deploy a team of pathologists to Mozambique in June to start the exhumation and repatriation of more than 157 Zimbabwean nationals who were swept away by the Cyclone Idai floods in 2019, for re-burial back home.

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[Govt of SA] The Department of Water and Sanitation will be opening two sluice gates at the Vaal Dam on Tuesday, 12 April 2022 at 10h00. A further three sluice gates will be opened at 14h00 today.

[Daily News] AT least 1.7 million people are set to benefit from the Tanzania Comprehensive Cancer Project (TCCP) which is meant to address impacts of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the country.

[Daily News] PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan is today expected to lay a foundation for the construction of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line from Makutupora -Tabora

[This Day] The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Benin Zone yesterday pleaded with Nigerians to join the union in rescuing the dying university system.

[Premium Times] Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Monday declared his intention to run for the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress for the 2023 poll.

[Nile Post] Police have said they are preparing summons for a number of people including the deceased's father Nathan Okori, NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine and NRM Vice chairman for Buganda region, Godfrey Kiwanda among other in...

[Dabanga] Khartoum -- Human rights activists, women's groups, and lawyers in Sudan have reacted angrily, after a complaint was opened with the Prosecution of Crimes Against the State against Salma Ishaq, the government official in charge of combating...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA) got new board members last week, after Parliament approved the appointment of nine nominees forwarded to it by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, raising controversy in its wake. The freshly...

[Premium Times] Established in 2020, the firm reported transactions in the sum of $100 million in the first year of operation and now operates at an annualised rate of $350 million.

[Nigeria Health Watch] The Malaria vaccine is considered to be one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history. However, in spite of this breakthrough, the battle against malaria is far from over. In the 2021 World Malaria report, Nigeria is sti...