[allAfrica] Harare -- If I were to take a wild guess, I bet that when I talk about who is affected by climate change, your first thought wouldn't be you, your friends or family.

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- There is no honour in waste!

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Coalition Presidential flag bearer Raila Odinga has defended President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration against accusations of failing to tame the high cost of living.

[GroundUp] Women who divorced under Sharia were often left destitute and powerless to enforce maintenance and protect the rights of their children

[SAnews.gov.za] Eskom workers are expected back at work this morning following violent industrial strike action, which plunged the country into an electricity supply crunch over the past week.

[Daily Maverick] The Eastern Cape Liquor Board opened a case on Tuesday against the owner of East London's Enyobeni tavern. Residents held a night vigil 50m from the nightspot where 21 young people died on Sunday morning.

[CAJ News] Abuja, Nigeria Nigeria Bureau -- THE death toll in Nigeria's Lassa fever outbreak has doubled over the past year.

[Africa Check] Would the amount saved from keeping the country's pump prices artificially low be enough to build a new 650,000-barrel-a-day oil refinery every year?

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Months after the PM's rise to power and in December 2018, the Wolaita zonal council voted unanimously for the formation of a regional state and presented their request to the SNNPR regional council. According to the co...

[VOA] Geneva -- The U.N. children's fund says more than 266,000 violations were committed against children in armed conflict between 2005 and 2020.

[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Villagers in a western Cameroon town bordering Nigeria say armed men carried out a series of attacks from June 25 to 27, killing at least 30 people, including five Nigerians, and forcing hundreds to flee.

[VOA] Nigerian churches are introducing armed security and entry searches after a deadly June 5 attack on a Catholic church blamed on the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP). Security experts fear the attack in Nigeria's southwest Ondo stat...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Mother-to-child HIV transmissions have been named as the main setback to reducing new infection rates in the country.

[The Conversation Africa] A first-time driver on Kenyan roads is likely to think that commercial and passenger service vehicles are highly regulated. Drivers are frequently stopped by police officers, who are ubiquitous along Kenya's highways.

[The Conversation Africa] About 2.6 billion people - nearly half of the global population, most of them in Africa, Asia and central and south America - rely on biomass fuels, like wood and charcoal, or kerosene to cook meals, heat and light their hom...

[DW] From the day they are born, they have to hide in the shadows. They're derided for the way they look, ostracized from communal life and persecuted. In some cultures, superstitious beliefs are attached to their physical appearance, from magical cu...

[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria - the sixth largest producer of cashew nuts globally - exports more than 80% of its raw cashews primarily to Vietman and India where they are processed into variuous consumer products such as butter, food and cosmeti...

[The Conversation Africa] Africa has great potential for drug discovery. The continent has natural resources, indigenous knowledge and human capacity. And it has the need: it bears more than 20% of the global disease burden. There are many internatio...

[African Arguments] The state-owned ZBC no longer has a monopoly, but that doesn't meanfree-to-air TV in Zimbabwe isany more diverse or varied.

[ISS] A new framework enables the African Union to track progress on the long road to achieving a conflict-free continent.

[IPS] Madrid -- The three-day North Atlantic Treaty Organisation-NATO Summit in Madrid (28,29, 30 June 2022) is expected to agree to considerably increase Europe's military power, heavily weaponise Russia's border, and further expand its presence in ...

[RFI] A Senegal court Tuesday handed an opposition MP a six-month suspended prison sentence for defying a ban on protests in the tense run-up to legislative elections in July. Another lawmaker and 82 other defendants tried in the same case were relea...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Roots Party Presidential candidate George Wajackoyah has proposed a 12-month maternity leave for mothers if elected President in the August polls.

[SAnews.gov.za] The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed the country's second case of Monkeypox.

[Premium Times] Mr Olatunbosun also said the federal government removed VAT from the gas sector to maintain price stability but the middlemen continue to maximise profit by as much as 100 per cent.

[HRW] Milan -- Investigate Fully, Preserve Evidence, Ensure Dignified Treatment of the Dead

[Premium Times] Virtually all parts of the country currently battle with one form of insecurity or the other.

[Premium Times] The Medical and Dentistry Council of Nigeria (MDCN) said recently that henceforth it would not allow medical certificates from Ukraine because of the effect of the ongoing war in that country.

[Daily Maverick] The Numsa and NUM unions have called on workers to 'normalise the situation' after they said Eskom had agreed to return to the bargaining table. That is a transparent code to their members taking part in an illegal strike blamed for ...