[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[This Day] The President of the World Bank Group, Mr. David Malpass, yesterday disclosed that Nigeria was yet to approach the bank for debt restructuring.

[Premium Times] In his government's final budget, Mr Buhari sets out a record N10.78 trillion deficit, more than N7.35 trillion in 2022 and above the mark prescribed by the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

[Premium Times] ASUU agreed to suspend the eight-month-old strike following a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the union that lasted from Thursday night till Friday morning.

[Scrolla] Five Banyana Banyana players, who helped the national team win the Women Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) in Morocco two months ago, are yet to receive their R100,000 bonuses.

[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Deputy Secretary  Wally Adeyemo hosted 10 African Ministers of Finance, along with Donald Kaberuka, an African Union special envoy and a former  president of the African Develop...

[The Conversation Africa] Tragic stories of suffering and death have emerged from Tigray since 2020, when civil war erupted between the central Ethiopian government and the regional Tigrayan government.

[RFI] Mali's proposed new constitution will shift the balance of executive power from the parliament towards the president. Junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita received a draft of the proposed constitution this week. The document, which is a key part o...

[Premium Times] The Court of Appeal ordered Mr Kanu's release from the custody of the State Security Service (SSS), where the IPOB is being held since he was brought back to Nigeria.

[DW] With elections pushed back by a further two years, Chad's military ruler Mahamat Deby is set to stay on as president. He's also gained expansive new powers as part of several presential resolutions passed

[ISS] After the second coup in nine months, divisions in the army and security forces must be urgently resolved.

[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria is experiencing its worst flooding in over a decade. Over 1.4 million people have been displaced, 500 have been reported dead and thousands have been injured.

[The Conversation Africa] The violence of the past is far from over. But it is disguised in many ways, made invisible and normalised. What started with the Spanish, Portuguese or the Ottoman empires continued with the British, French and Russian empi...

[Global Press Journal] Basoko, Democratic Republic of Congo -- In January, officials ordered Xiang Jiang Mining to cease operations near the Congo River. Nine months later, the mine is still open - and residents are still protesting.

[African Arguments] Uganda's experience shows how communities near borders come up with effective strategies for disease control, while resisting disruptive state ones.

[Dabanga] New York / Geneva / Khartoum -- Lawyers and human rights defenders have voiced their disappointment after Sudan was re-elected by the UN General Assembly on Monday to serve on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for the period 2023-2025. Anno...

[FrontPageAfrica] Paris -- Day three of the war crimes trial of Liberian Kunti Kamara was all about setting the scene of Liberia's civil war and the history that led up to it for the jury of six French citizens and three judges who will decide this c...

[Premium Times] The ex-BBnaija housemate and actor was involved in an accident on Tuesday.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The National Assembly has released a schedule for vetting President William Ruto's Cabinet nominees, Secretary to the Cabinet and the Attorney General, starting Monday next week.

[Nile Post] President Museveni has warned traditional healers against accepting and admitting Ebola patients but also asked members of the public to avoid seeking treatment from herbalists and witch doctors.

[Premium Times] The Court of Appeal discharged Mr Kanu and ordered his release by the State Security Service (SSS).

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Yesterday, the Ministry of Education announced that one student was killed, and many examiners taking national school leaving exam and security forces were injured in a violence caused by the students at Debre Tabor Un...

[VOA] A failed engine and high waves were to blame for the fatal shipwreck that killed at least 18 Europe-bound migrants off the coast of Greece last week, one survivor tells VOA.

[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- A monkeypox outbreak has been confirmed in the town of Mbonge, health authorities in Cameroon say, but armed separatists are preventing workers from investigating suspected cases.

[Premium Times] Investors respond with concerns about Nigeria instruments after the government indicated it might be struggling to meet its repayment obligations.

[Premium Times] Yobe, Borno and Taraba states topped the infection chart, followed by Cross River and Katsina states.

[VOA] Lusaka -- Zambia is hosting a two-day business summit in Lusaka this week to try to attract American investors to the country.

[New Zimbabwe] ZIMBABWE needs to sustain productivity growth rates of between eight to nine percent annually for the next seven years if the upper- middle income economy (UMIC) status enshrined under Vision 2030 is to be achieved, the Country Economi...

[Govt of SA] Proposed closure of Numbi Gate: Minister of Tourism Lindiwe Sisulu sets the record straight

[New Zimbabwe] Politician-cum-lawyer, Tendai Biti has implicated controversial businessman Ken Sharpe in what he said was the greatest land heist in the history of post- independent Zimbabwe.