[RFI] Conservationists and fishermen in Namibia have reduced the accidental deaths of seabirds including endangered albatrosses, from up to 30,000 per year more than a decade ago, to just 215 at the last count: and it's all down to the simplest of bi...

[AIM] Maputo -- Pemba (Mozambique), 15 Jan (AIM) - The northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado is on the verge of serious hunger and a consequent increase in chronic child malnutrition, as food production especially in districts affected by terr...

[Daily Trust] Musu Bakoto Sawo, a Gambian changemaker and tireless women rights advocate, has emerged winner of the 2020 Daily Trust African of the Year award.

[The Herald] Exploration for diamonds in Sese communal lands in Chivi by Murowa Diamond Company is promising, but inconclusive on whether the area has gems that can be commercially exploited.

[New Zimbabwe] Commuters have described as "unsustainably exorbitant" the hiking of public bus fares by the Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (ZUPCO) from $16 to $30 for conventional buses and $32 to $60 for kombis.

[The Herald] The Kwekwe District Civil Protection Unit, which is conducting a search for three artisanal miners who were buried alive following a mineshaft collapse at Yellow Mine in Kwekwe, yesterday clocked four days without success.

[The Herald] Zimbabwe's mineral exports, excluding gold and silver, for the year 2020 surged by 27 percent, earning the country US$2,4 billion, the Minerals and Marketing Authority of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) has said.

[The Herald] Authorities are investigating a case in which 23 Malawian border jumpers disappeared from Beitbridge main police station while awaiting transportation to Harare, pending deportation.

[Daily Maverick] History will judge this South African government and the African Union for their silence in this moment. To continually side with oppressive leaders does not serve the needs of the continent and creates far more adverse prospects for...

[New Zimbabwe] The Bank of Zambia (BoZ) has ordered a top Zimbabwean banker, George Manyere to exit from both controlling shareholding and directorship in the fintech company MyBucks after violating banking rules.

[New Zimbabwe] Some self-exiled former cabinet ministers have called for the immediate resignation from government of Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri after her weekend spat in which she accused China for creating the deadly Covid-19 virus and faili...

[Nyasa Times] After directing that Vice-President Saulos Chilima should lead a ministerial task-team to review Covid-19 guidelines in order to respond effectively to the virus pandemic, President Lazarus Chakwera on Sunday came out with substance ove...

[The Herald] Zimbabwe yesterday commemorated the eighth anniversary of the death of former Vice President John Landa Nkomo.

[The Herald] Former Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, who left Zimbabwe hurriedly in 2017 and faces arrest on various charges on his return, has been accused by veteran modelling instructor Mrs Sipho Mazibuko of raping her 11 years ago when she was p...

[GroundUp] In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many doctors, researchers, journalists and public health officials spent considerable energy describing how the SARS-CoV-2 virus was not "just another flu" but something far more deadly and debil...

[AIM] Maputo -- The dramatic rise in the number of new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease in Mozambique continued on Thursday with 543 new infections diagnosed, the fifth highest daily number on record.

[The Herald] The second wave of Covid-19 has impacted rural communities, which were previously seen as safe havens, with many positive cases and deaths reported since the beginning of the year.

[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwe National Radio Administration (ZINARA), losing millions of dollars annually through revenue leakages by staff at its tollgates, plans to install an Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system at all 31 tollgates.

[The Herald] Government has lined up several irrigation infrastructure projects this year as part of efforts to boost crop production and achieve food security.

[Govt of SA] As of today the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified on South Africa is 1 337 926 with a total of 12 267 new cases identified since the last report.

[Govt of SA] As of today the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified on South Africa is 1 325 659.

[The Herald] Ace Zimbabwean motor racing driver Axcil Jefferies buried himself in glory on Saturday after sweeping to victory in the 2021 Hankook 24H Dubai at Dubai Autodrome in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

[The Herald] "America must learn from Africa's wisdom where a president is sworn in within 48 hours of being elected into power. And, you know, Africans are not stupid, they know that this saves a lot of nonsense from happening. Now look who is havin...

[Daily Maverick] South Africa parrots Zanu-PF's fiction that all Zimbabwe's ills can be blamed on the West, while doing its northern counterpart a favour by absorbing desperately poor refugees from across the Limpopo.

[The Herald] Suspended Harare City Council town clerk Hosiah Chisango is today expected in court for his bail application on charges of criminal abuse of office involving his direct control of the council's security division and appointing a chief se...

[Daily Maverick] The Constitutional Court's recent judgment in Moko provides a glimmer of hope in what might otherwise seem a gloomy picture.

[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- Farmers have been advised to provide their livestock with supplements as the country's soils and grasses are still deficient in minerals even during the wet season.

[Govt of SA] MEC for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs, Mmoloki Cwaile has met with the leaders of COSATU and SAMWU on Friday the 15th to discuss the challenges in municipalities.

[Daily Maverick] Doctors, emergency services workers and hospital staff battled till the early hours of Friday morning to clear floodwater from Tshepong Hospital after a downpour.

[Daily Maverick] Is the final whistle near in the Fifa World Cup 2010 graft scandal in KwaZulu-Natal?