[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] As of July 08, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  11,948,607 while  334,203,313 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Dabanga] Khartoum -- The United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), African Union (AU), and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Trilateral Mechanism has announced the suspension of the dialogue that be...

[DW] Clashes broke out in Eastern Congo on Thursday between the military and M3 after the rebel group said that a ceasefire deal signed the previous day was "irrelevant."

[allAfrica] Harare -- African elephant named Shankar was taken from the African wilderness, gifted to India by the Zimbabwean government, then kept in the Delhi Zoo, India, for the past 24 years. The lone elephant is a victim of cruelty and viciousne...

[SAnews.gov.za] The National Treasury has confirmed the allocation of R516 million in the first phase funding in response to the April flood disaster that caused significant damage to infrastructure in various provinces.

[The Conversation Africa] Most of the global cases of sickle cell disease are diagnosed in African countries. The Economist Intelligence Unit - the research and analysis division of the Economist media group - estimated that in 2020 the total annual ...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told lawmakers today that the ruling Prosperity Party (PP) has decided to pursue peaceful path with the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) based on the national interest of the country,...

[Daily Maverick] Regional leaders will hold a summit in South Africa, chaired by President Cyril Ramaphosa, this month to address the festering crisis in Eswatini by trying to launch a national political dialogue.

[MSF] A growing, yet largely ignored, malnutrition crisis is unfolding in northwest Nigeria, which threatens the lives of tens of thousands of children, Médecins Sans Frontières has warned. Since January, MSF teams, working in partnership with Nige...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Deputy President William Ruto now says that curfews are not the best solution in managing insecurity because it is a short-term measure.

[VOA] Dakar, Senegal -- Gambia has banned all exports of timber to curb rampant illegal logging and protect critically endangered African rosewood, but conservationists remain skeptical that the ban will be enforced.

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Malawi's government has ordered police to investigate former president Peter Mutharika and an aide in connection with the 2018 murder of a 24-year-old albino man. Days earlier, Malawi's high court sentenced 12 people, includ...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The High Court has thrown out a case that sought to have Deputy President William Ruto removed from office over alleged gross misconduct and abdication of his role.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- United Democratic Alliance (UDA) presidential flagbearer William Ruto has blamed the handshake as one of the reasons for the current high cost of living in the country.

[VOA] Paris -- African and European researchers are meeting in France to give fresh impetus to Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall project, intended to fight climate change and support communities across the Sahel region. Much of the area is plagued ...

[VOA] Geneva -- A UNICEF official has told VOA that Ethiopia's drought-stricken population could face a full-blown famine without immediate help.

[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Lawmakers from Cameroon's troubled English-speaking regions are calling for more troops to protect officials, government workers, and their families from separatists. Addressing Cameroon's parliament Wednesday night, the la...

[UN News] Democratic and responsible governance is needed to counter ongoing insecurity in West Africa and the Sahel, the UN Special Representative for the subregion told the Security Council on Thursday.

[UN News] Social protection for rural workers "remains a dream", according to a report launched in Geneva on Thursday by the Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), part of the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO).

[Premium Times] The Westminster Magistrate Court in the U.K. on Thursday ruled that David Nwamini (Ukpo), the alleged organ harvesting victim in the case involving Mr Ekweremadu and his wife, is not a minor.

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- Nigerian security forces continue searching for hundreds of inmates who escaped following a Tuesday attack on an Abuja prison. The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has claimed responsibility for the jailbreak and Nig...

[TechCrunch] Flutterwave has come out to deny the fraud and money laundering claims leveled against it by Kenya's Asset Recovery Agency, which investigates and recovers proceeds of crime.

[The Conversation Africa] Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known simply as Wole Soyinka, can't be easily described. He is a teacher, an ideologue, a scholar and an iconoclast, an elder statesman, a patriot and a culturalist.

[The Conversation Africa] The 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) opened in Morocco with several storylines that include challenges to perennial giants, broadcast to a global audience, increased monetary payout to the winner and an expanded n...

[ISS] Police must commit to standards and better controls of rubber bullets in public order policing situations.

[The Herald] The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on Thursday dismissed as "fake news", social media content alleging that gold coins were already available ahead of their official release date.

[New Era] ReconAfrica's controversial oil exploration activities in the Kavango regions have been officially endorsed by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources, which is chaired by former Cabinet minister Tjekero Tweya.

[New Zimbabwe] Former Vice President Kembo Mohadi's daughter Abigail Ambrose has been appointed and sworn in as a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) commissioner, in a move opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has described as unconstituti...

[Namibian] THE Namibian Police arrested a former Brave Warriors player on Tuesday after he was allegedly caught with a full beef carcass at Dordabis.