[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] As of June 9, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  11,761,791 while  321,791,657 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[VOA] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was inaugurated as the 10th president of Somalia Thursday in a colorful ceremony attended by hundreds of people, including the leaders of Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti. In his inaugural speech, Mohamud...

[JusticeInfo.net] Kinshasa -- Opened a year ago, the trial concerning ethnic violence in Yumbi, Democratic Republic of Congo, has been at a standstill since the beginning of April. Eighty people are on trial for acts including crimes against humanity...

[Dabanga] The Hague -- The proceedings of former Darfur janjaweed leader, Ali Muhammad Ali Abdelrahman (known as 'Ali Kushayb'), who has been accused of 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity between 2003 and at least 2004, continued as ...

[VOA] Cape Town, South Africa -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed parliament Thursday for the first time since a former spy boss last week accused him of hiding millions of dollars in his farmhouse.

[UN News] Five countries have been elected to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council following a vote in the General Assembly on Thursday.

[Daily Maverick] While the optics of President Cyril Ramaphosa's suspension of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane on Thursday -- a day after she announced she would be investigating #CouchGate -- may not look good from any angle, the decision is not...

[Daily Maverick] Civil society organisations this week raised the alarm about the Department of Social Development and the SA Social Security Agency not paying Social Relief of Distress Grants to millions of poor South Africans for two months, April ...

[Daily Trust] The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the presidential and governorship candidates of the 18 registered political parties to pick and submit the lists of their running mates in the next eight days.

[Daily Maverick] After a buoyant first quarter that saw the economy expand faster than expected and the current account surplus widen, a spate of data strongly suggests that the party came crashing to an end this quarter. Data released on Thursday sh...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Beira, Mozambique/Washington -- In climate-vulnerable nations, city mayors say they need cash and a bigger say in forging policies to deal with displacement caused by drought, storms and flooding

[The Conversation Africa] Two southern African countries, South Africa and Eswatini, are undergoing important reforms. South Africa is reviewing its electoral system while Eswatini is revisiting the powers of the monarch through a national dialogue.

[African Arguments] Despite local measures to combat pollution and overfishing, stocks of the once bountiful Nile perch have fallen by at least three-quarters.

[Premium Times] Residents said the attackers ransacked four communities.

[Premium Times] PREMIUM TIMES reported how dozens of people were killed when gunmen attacked worshippers on Sunday at the St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State.

[ISS] As encouraging steps are taken to resolve the military conflict, pressure for a negotiated settlement is needed.

[African Arguments] Two familiar candidates will compete for the presidency amid some familiar problems but under a new electoral framework.

[The Conversation Africa] Lecturers in Nigerian public universities have embarked on strikes 16 times since 1999. Cumulatively, the public universities have lost about 50 months of their academic calendar to these actions in the last 23 years. The re...

[Crisis Group] The 9 August presidential vote in Kenya pits the incumbent's favourite against a populist challenger. It will be hard-fought. To avert the violence that has marred past contests, the two candidates should pledge to resolve any dispute ...

[JusticeInfo.net] Six months have passed since eight people acquitted or released by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) were transferred by the UN to Niger, supposedly to live freely and permanently. But they are still without pape...

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- FrontPageAfrica has gathered that the Petroleum Importers Association and the Liberian government have reached an agreement for an increment in the price of petroleum products to be commensurate with the global cost. Thi...

[Vanguard] Locals who fled from Kwari village in Jibiya Local Government Area of Katsina have said that over 80 people were kidnapped by bandits who invaded the community and set their food barns and local shops on fire.

[SAnews.gov.za] Deputy President David Mabuza says government will invest in climate-resilient infrastructure following the recent devastating floods that caused loss of life and devastated roads and drainage systems.

[RFI] Belgium's King Philippe expressed his "deepest regrets" for the pain inflicted during his country's colonisation of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but stopped short of formally apologising for exploitation, racism and acts of violence.

[Premium Times] "We feed our family and also pay children's school fees with proceeds from this business," one of the women said.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- "Many people in Afar cannot access the very minimum levels of healthcare, food and water necessary to sustain human life": MSF

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- China said it will host the first ever Horn of Africa peace conference in Ethiopia's capital Addis Abeba on June 20-21, according to reports.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Federal High Court of Ethiopia today overruled a decision by judges at the Federal first instant court allowing the release on 10,000 birr bail each of three journalists.

[VOA] Njitapon, Cameroon -- Cameroon's military on Thursday said it deployed about a hundred troops to the French-speaking village of Njitapon, after 35 anglophone separatists attacked the outpost.