[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] In February of this year, African leaders launched the African Year of Nutrition. However, as the year has unfolded, the outlook for nutrition on the continent has been increasingly bleak: the latest report on the State of Food Security a...

[allAfrica] The world's most popular sporting event is about to take place in Qatar. The World Health Organization and the Qatar Ministry of Public Health are working to make this year's football (soccer) championship the launchpad for a global healt...

[Premium Times] Studies have shown that a poor and unhealthy diet and eating unsaturated or trans fat can result in high cholesterol.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Fighting continued in July and August with attacks in Palma and Mocimboa da Praia districts, near the district towns, in the gas zone which is supposed to be safe. Between 18 and 21 August, multiple incidents w...

[HRW] Nairobi -- Armed Group Kills Hundreds of Amharas in June Massacre; Independent Inquiries Needed

[New Times] Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) announced that it concluded investigations into the alleged corruption case involving suspended Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth and Culture, Edouard Bamporiki, and has since transferred his cas...

[VOA] Addis Ababa -- The first shipment of Ukrainian grain to Africa since Russia's invasion arrived in Djibouti on Tuesday. The grain will be distributed in Ethiopia to help the drought-stricken nation cope with worsening hunger that threatens to be...

[VOA] Nairobi -- Kenya's Supreme Court has ordered the recount of ballots cast at 15 polling stations during the August 9 presidential election. The order was one of several issued Tuesday as the court began hearing a challenge to the win of Presiden...

[VOA] Blantyre -- Malawi's police service has welcomed two officers with albinism into its ranks, the first people with the rare genetic pigment disorder in Malawi's state security organization. Rights groups say the hirings should help efforts to cr...

[ANGOP] Luanda -- CASA-CE coalition Tuesday (30) rejected the final results of the general elections conducted on 24 August, released Monday by the National Electoral Commission (CNE).

[Daily Maverick] Having said he was ready to account -- just not quite yet in Parliament -- for the Phala Phala farm forex theft, President Cyril Ramaphosa thought he was done. However, the opposition insisted on a proper answer and the Speaker ultim...

[DW] The renewed flareup of armed conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has dashed hopes of the first steps toward peace negotiations. Both sides seem set on a military solution, with dire consequences for civilians.

[Premium Times] The agreement will help Nigeria side-step the likely crude oil glut that will follow as more countries move away to cleaner energy.

[Premium Times] Seven people have been rescued and are responding to treatment

[Premium Times] The NCAA says airlines must enter an MoU on how they will pay their debts in the next 30 days from August 30 or their licence will be suspended.

[African Arguments] Big farming investments reduce local food security and erode trust. They need a fundamental rethink.

[ISS] As global powers seek support for their competing worldviews, will Africa capitalise on its rising strategic value?

[VOA] Abuja -- The International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC, says there were 64,000 cases of persons reported as having disappeared across Africa in the past year -- nearly one-third more than the previous year. The ICRC says armed conflict ...

[IPS] Sydney and Kuala Lumpur -- Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse off than in other post-colonial African ec...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Madagascar police officers have shot protesters during a demonstration about the kidnapping of a child with albinism at in the southeastern town of Ikongo, according to AFP, killing at least 18 people. Dozens more were wounde...

[Namibian] OUTRIGHT Namibia director Agapitus Haufiku says despite significant improvement many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) community members still face stigma and discrimination.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Chad's national dialogue that began a week ago, hit a snag on August 28, 2022 when the list of the presidium, which was supposed to direct the work of the forum, was contested. With the announcement that Gali Ngoté, an oppon...

[RFI] Liberian President George Weah is facing a backlash over how he has handled corruption accusations made by the United States against three top officials.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Supreme Court has consolidated seven petitions challenging President-Elect William Ruto's victory in the just concluded general election.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] "The army must recruit in order to wage war. But what happens today is that we recruit in order to give people jobs. I recruit my son because I can't educate him, so I send him into the army or the police. Then...

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Raising questions at the top Nyusi 1 - the high cost of economic liberalisation

[UN News] Hazards such as earthquakes, floods, heatwaves, and wildfires, can be prevented from becoming life-threatening disasters, according to the authors of a UN report launched on Wednesday.

[Dabanga] Khartoum -- Sudan's opposition has witnessed various calls and initiatives to overcome divisions and form a united front against the military junta that took power in the October 25 military coup. The resistance committees are working on un...

[The Conversation Africa] I speak to myself whisperingOur situation has defied resolution, our misery isn't improvingWe are in despair and idling, that is why I am whispering.