[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] Harare -- Humans and wild animals are facing new challenges for survival because of the climate crisis - how more frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans can directly harm a...

[RFI] French judges have dropped a case against French soldiers deployed during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. The men had been accused of complicity in crimes against humanity.

[FrontPageAfrica] United Kingdom police have arrested and detained a man in his 40s on war crimes charges for his alleged role in the Liberian civil war in the 1990s and early 2000s.

[The Exchange] Due to strong investment incentives, Africa's internet access is growing at one of the fastest paces in the world. Africa's youthful population and rapid urbanization are strong drivers of digitalisation demand.

[Premium Times] Between January and July, Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, lost an average of 437,000 barrels of oil a day to criminals.

[Leadership] United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has disclosed that over 20,000 adolescent girls have been retained in schools and safe places, while over 5,500 women and girls are living with obstetrics fistula in Nigeria.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- After being blocked by security forces from meeting the media, a group of 35 local civil society organizations issued a joint statement calling for peace in Ethiopia, where the resumption of militarized hostilities bet...

[VOA] Geneva -- The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, is warning that the displacement crisis in the Horn of Africa and Sahel is getting worse as the impact of climate change and conflict are forcing more people to flee in search of safety and humanitarian...

[VOA] Lome, Togo -- The West African nation of Togo has extended a state of emergency in its northern Savanes region for another six months due to continued attacks by Islamist militants.

[VOA] Bangourain, Cameroon -- Military officials in Cameroon say armed separatists killed at least six people and wounded nine when they attacked a bus on a highway in the country's troubled Southwest region.

[UN News] Achieving full gender equality, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), could take close to 300 years if the current rate of progress continues, according to a report published on Wednesday by UN Women and the UN Department of E...

[DW] Investigating magistrates found no evidence that French troops were complicit in crimes against humanity during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -- African leaders will push for more help in meeting billions in shortfalls for climate change adaptation plans at U.N talks

[Crisis Group] Renewed fighting between a federal-Amhara-Eritrea coalition and Tigray's forces has shattered a tenuous months-long truce. The reversal heralds a return to one of the world's deadliest conflicts. International envoys should keep pressi...

[IPS] Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe -- In Chitungwiza, right next to the highway, 36-year-old Nesbit Gavanga and his five colleagues use shovels as they load trucks with sand.

[African Arguments] Kenya's sexual health rights are beholden to US decisionmakers. New legislators must take back control.

[The Conversation Africa] In a recent study South Africa was identified as ranking first of 164 countries in the World Bank's global poverty database. Underlying this inequality is its very high rates of unemployment. Professor Dori Posel spoke to Wo...

[ISS] Kenya's election shows that understanding how voters are influenced online is central to freer, fairer elections.

[AIM] Maputo -- Terrorists attacked the coastal district of Memba, in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula, on Sunday, shortly before dawn, according to the independent television station STV.

[SAnews.gov.za] Deaths linked to COVID-19 have left nearly 150 000 children orphaned, UNICEF South Africa said.

[spotlight] In July this year temperatures in some parts of the Free State dropped as low as minus 8 degrees Celsius while in some hospitals, patients were told to bring their own blankets or brace the cold without.

[Nile Post] The death toll from the landslides that hit Kasese in the wee hours of Wednesday morning has risen to 15, Uganda Red Cross has indicated.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Nine out of the 40 applicants who applied for the Senate Speaker post have submitted their application before the stipulated deadline that was set at 2.30PM.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Officials tasked with planning the swearing in ceremony of President Elect William Ruto and his deputy Rigathi Gachagua at the Kasarani stadium have said the preparations are on top gear.

[VOA] Bangourain -- Authorities in Cameroon say anglophone separatists have attacked a francophone village that was hosting people displaced by the five-year separatist conflict. Officials in the town of Bongourain say the rebels torched homes and ma...

[Dabanga] Khartoum -- Employees working in Sudan's electricity sector announced the start of a two-day strike on Tuesday across several states after the Ministry of Energy and Oil failed to meet their demands for the implementation of the 2022 new sa...

[New Zimbabwe] University of Zimbabwe law professor, Lovemore Madhuku, has claimed that detained legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole are victims of their own political party's decision to refuse to dialogue.

[RFI] Burundi's parliament on Wednesday approved the appointment of a new prime minister after President Evariste Ndayishimiye warned last week of a possible coup plot against him.

[Vanguard] The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, yesterday, revealed that at least 30 collapsed buildings were recorded in various incidents which occurred between January and July 2022 in Lagos State.