[allAfrica] Lagos -- Now that COVID-19 vaccines are available, the richest countries in the world have effectively bought them up. African leaders have let them.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- It is another sad day for the people of Mzansi as the country lost Setswana contemporary musician icon Kori Moraba to Covid-19 related complications as well as an award-winning author and former food editor at True Love magaz...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Sudan fails to attend planned virtual meeting of Ministers of Water Affairs of Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan scheduled for January 04, Ethiopia's Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy said.

[The Herald] Thousands of Zimbabweans and South Africans left the country yesterday through Beitbridge Border Post in a last-minute rush to beat the suspension of general travel, which went into effect by midnight.

[DW] After four years of civil war in Anglophone Cameroon, state and rebel forces have refused to engage in serious dialoge while citizens and children suffer in crossfire. DW's Adrian Kriesch reports from western Cameroon.

[DW] Attacks have been rocking Niger ahead of February's presidential election runoff. Jihadis, ethnical disputes and the fight for resources are the key issues the next president will need to address, experts say.

[Nairobi News] Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has announced that the newly introduced Digital Service Tax (DST) came into effect on January 1.

[New Zimbabwe] The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)-Zimbabwe has written to Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga to urge police restraint when dealing with journalists who would be pursuing their duties during a new 30-day national loc...

[This Day] The federal government yesterday squared up to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and some human rights groups, notably Amnesty International, accusing them of frustrating efforts to tackle the nation's security challenges.

[Ghanaian Times] The Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kyerematen and the UK Secretary of State for International Trade, Elizabeth Mary Truss, on the eve of New Year reached a consensus on the agreement through a video conference which would see exis...

[SPS] Pretoria (South Africa) -- Former South African Ambassador to Cuba and Chief of Staff in the office of ANC Secretary General, Phatse Justice Piitso, adressed an Open Letter to Joe Biden, Friday 1 January, calling on the US President elect to se...

[Nyasa Times] US pop star Madonna is facing criticisms in social media platforms after she sat on tables and danced when she went to meet President Lazarus Chakwera last week with some critics saying she was spreading the virtues of Kabbalah sect of ...

[Nation] For years, residents of West Pokot have known Kamatira Forest as the dumping site for bodies of people who have been killed outside the county.

[Premium Times] Before Monday, the last highest figure was the 1,145 cases recorded on December 12, 2020.

[Daily Trust] At least 67 per cent of the $31.985 billion (N12.193 trillion) outstanding external debt of Nigeria is for loans taken as Eurobond, a commercial loan, and from the International Development Association (IDA) as of September 2020.

[This Day] Nigeria has once more missed the target it voluntary set to end gas flaring in 2020, THISDAY's investigation has revealed.

[Premium Times] The minister says a number of platforms the country had been expecting to pep up the battle against terrorists and bandits would arrive in the new year.

[SAnews.gov.za] The price of petrol is set to increase by between 40 and 43 cents a litre this week.

[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- A highly infectious new strain of coronavirus 501V2 has been detected in Botswana.

[New Zimbabwe] NEWZIMBABWE.COM journalist Costa Nkomo, reported missing over the past three days, has been found in good health.

[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Edwin Dikoloti has, on January 3, announced the extension of curfew from January 4 to January 31.

[Monitor] The NRM presidential candidate President Yoweri Museveni today starts his final campaign leg as he returns to some districts where he's already campaigned.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Insurgents reached the gates of the Afungi LNG project on Friday 1 January. After a series of ever closer attacks, Total evacuated most of its staff from Afungi and Palma last week. Fighting continued yesterday...

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Cyclone Chalane passed across Mozambique in just one day, 30 December, making landfall in Muanza, north of Beira, passing over Chimoio, and on to Zimbabwe. The storm killed seven people and affected 5,400 famil...

[The Herald] Strict control of people's movements will be enforced as Zimbabwe returns to Level Four lockdown from today, with the Government seeing the 30-day tightening of the lockdown as the best way to rein in the spike in infections threatening ...

[The Herald] Government yesterday sent condolences to the Dikinya family after Mr Roy George Tinashe Dikinya slipped and fell into Victoria Falls gorge on New Year's Day.

[The Herald] Tensions continue to mount in MDC-Alliance amid revelations that six Chinhoyi councillors who survived last year's purges by MDC-T now led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora are squabbling over the recently held mayoral election in which at least on...

[The Herald] Police have suspended four officers for failing to enforce national lockdown regulations on New Year's eve, resulting in a Harare-based disc jockey, DJ Fantan, hosting a musical show attended by hundreds of people at Matapi Flats in Mbar...

[Nation] March 2021 will mark nine years since Kenya made the big announcement that oil had been discovered in Turkana.

[The Herald] Real Betis Zimbabwe Academy players have been presented with an early opportunity to prove their mettle before some top Spanish teams when they tour the European nation in March. The academy, the first in Africa, was launched late last y...