[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] The Federal Government in Addis Ababa and Tigrayan authorities have agreed on a ceasefire.

[Scrolla] Gauteng police have confirmed that bodies of 19 suspected illegal miners have been discovered in Krugersdorp.

[The Conversation Africa] Lesotho's 2022 general election, its tenth since its independence from Britain in 1966, was unique in more ways than one.

[The Conversation Africa] If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a "planet killer" asteroid named 2022 AP7.

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- The closure of camps for people displaced by Islamist militants in Nigeria's Borno state has pushed more than 200,000 people into extreme poverty, a rights group says.

[VOA] Wajir, Kenya -- A Kenyan official says suspected al-Shabab militants have carjacked an ambulance in the country's northeast and abducted four people - the driver, two paramedics, and a patient - and taken them toward the border with Somalia.

[VOA] Lusaka, Zambia -- Police in Zambia have arrested an opposition leader on charges of libel and hate speech after she criticized President Hakainde Hichilema's media director.

[VOA] Dar es Salaam -- Tanzania's army has deployed hundreds of troops to help firefighters who have been battling a blaze on Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, for almost two weeks.

[The New Humanitarian] Calabar, Nigeria -- There's going to be millions of people facing hunger in the Niger Delta by next year.'

[Africa Renewal] It unconscionable to arm-twist the entire continent into accepting an unrealistic "only renewables from now on" argument

[IPS] Bratislava -- As a new report lays bare the massive financial costs to developing states of illegal fishing, campaigners are hoping that drawing attention to the practice's devastating economic effects will help push governments to greater acti...

[IPS] Urbana, Illinois, USA -- The statistics are stark. The crisis is unprecedented. Yet again, according to the United Nations, famine looms in Somalia, with hundreds of thousands already facing starvation. In addition, droughts, and catastrophic h...

[The Conversation Africa] The main combatants in the two-year Ethiopia-Tigray war have announced a dramatic pause in hostilities. What started on November 3 2020 as a swift armed mission by Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed to bring the rebellious ...

[The Conversation Africa] Since the first case of the current Ebola outbreak in Uganda was confirmed in mid-September, the number of cases has topped 127 across seven districts, including 17 in the capital city Kampala.

[DW] Kenya says it is deploying troops to fight an insurgency in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The announcement comes as tensions flare over alleged support for the militants from neighboring Rwanda.

[The Exchange] With the realities of food security and a burgeoning population, there is an urgent need for a more realistic approach to the discussion on the adoption of GMOs in Africa.

[African Arguments] Educators during the country's post-independence golden age wanted for nothing. Today's teachers say they barely scrape by.

[Scrolla] An outbreak of cholera in Malawi got dramatically worse during October, rising from 110 cases at the beginning of the month to 183 at the start of November.

[Legalbrief] A decision by the constitutional division of Lesotho's High Court has found controversial provisions in that country's sexual offences law, unconstitutional. In particular, the court held that stipulating the death penalty for a convicte...

[Addis Standard] Addis Ababa -- A new report by the UN said that at least nine people have died following the latest cholera outbreak across five districts in Oromia and Somali regional state, with over 330 cases reported as of 31 October.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Power outages have been reported in Nairobi, Mt Kenya and Coast areas, affecting thousands of businesses.

[HRW] Beirut -- Egypt To Host Amid Intensifying Abuses; Allow Full Civil Society Participation

[HRW] Nairobi -- 35 Years On, Strengthen Its Independence, Civil Society Role

[GroundUp] Illegal dump hasn't been cleared since March

[allAfrica] An agreement to end the fighting in northern parts of Ethiopia was announced at a press conference in Pretoria by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who has been mediating peace talks on behalf of the African Union. The full agr...

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Students at the University of Malawi are protesting over the school's decision to have only one semester per year, doubling the length of time needed for a degree. The school closed Wednesday after students blocked roads to ...

[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Activists in Cameroon say there has been a 60% increase in people applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery, also known as the Green Card Lottery. Thousands of people have been lining up at internet cafes to apply for th...

[Nigeria Health Watch] Media reports have been filled with reports of flooding in several states in Nigeria in the last few months. Thousands of hectares of farmland has been destroyed by floodwater, and the president of the All Farmers Association o...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Olusegun Obasanjo, the High Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, announced that AU-led peace talks in South Africa has resulted in agreement of cessation of hostilities between the federal...