[allAfrica] Cape Town -- President Joe Biden has struck a new tone in U.S.-Africa relations, recording a video message which promotes a "shared vision" of more trade and investment, peace and security for all Africans, a commitment to democratic inst...

[Daily Trust] The World Health Organisation (WHO) has disqualified Nigeria from the first round of supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

[Premium Times] Cape Verde had in June 2020 detained a Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab, at the request of the United States.

[Nation] The war of words between Deputy President William Ruto and ODM leader Raila Odinga escalated yesterday, with the DP dismissing the ODM boss as visionless and Mr Odinga accusing the second-in-command of politicking instead of building the nat...

[Ethiopian Herald] Minister of Transport disclosed that some three trillion Birr investment is required for the realization of transport sector 10-year development plan.

[Daily Trust] Lagos -- The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has banned Emirates Airlines' operations in Nigeria for violating COVID-19 protocols.

[New Zimbabwe] Victoria Falls -- Zambia's Revenue Authority (ZRA) has announced it will ban exportation of a cocktail of goods including vehicles, household items and groceries through Victoria Falls Border starting on 1 March.

[Daily Trust] The Federal Government is targeting that at least 30 percent of passenger vehicles in Nigeria will be electric cars by 2025.

[New Zimbabwe] MDC ALLIANCE has called on the army to rein in rogue elements within the security sector for terrorising civilians.

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwean information minister Monica Mutsvangwa on Friday called on the corporate sector to provide more personal protective equipment to local journalists, noting that they are part of the frontline workers during the COVID-19 pande...

[Daily Trust] Former Nigerian Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has expressed gratitude to the US for endorsing her as the next director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

[Nairobi News] Tanzania's Wasafi TV, which is owned by renowned singer Diamond Platnumz, will resume broadcasting from March 1, 2021.

[DA] Four months after the Deputy President, David Mabuza, assured South Africans that no farmer will be evicted from their farms under the government's land redistribution programme, Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALR...

[DA] The Democratic Alliance (DA) has today written to Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms. Thandi Modise MP, asking her to instruct the various parliamentary staff members who oversee the payment of entitlements to members of parliament, as well as...

[Leadership] Security agencies have reported that bandits opened fire on commuters along the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari road, the Kaduna state government has said.

[Leadership] Federal Character Commission (FCC) has denied an allegation of secret recruitment and giving waiver to ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) levelled against its chairman, Dr Muheeba Dankaka.

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[Independent (Kampala)] The African Union (AU) will from midday today host its first virtual summit in Addis Ababa at which DRC's Felix Antoine Tshisekedi will take over as chairperson, and elections of the AU Commission (AUC) will be held.

[Vanguard] The Amnesty office has denied the report that the Federal Government seized N26 billion belonging to the Presidential Amnesty Programme, clarifying that the money was mopped up as part of the government's financial process.

[New Zimbabwe] Bulawayo city dam levels have risen from about 29 percent to 53 percent capacity following heavy rains that have been pounding the country since December last year.

[Daily Trust] A former House of Representatives member and former Special Adviser to Governor Ibrahim Shekarau on Economic matters, Dr Abdullahi Maikano Rabiu, has died of COVID-19 complications.

[allAfrica] The transcript of a message from President Biden to participants in the African Union Summit:

[Daily Trust] President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu.

[New Zimbabwe] POLICE and Zanu PF both say they were not aware Bindura North MP Kenneth Musanhi held a rally last week in defiance of government's lockdown measures against gathering.

[Daily Trust] The former senator representing Bayelsa east, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce and other Nigerians have reacted to the purported ban of cryptocurrency trading by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

[Daily Trust] The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja has fixed April 22 to deliver judgment in a case accusing herdsmen of killings and destruction of properties of Nigerians.

[Daily Trust] The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said President Muhammadu Buhari has not contravened any law by reappointing Mr Ahmed Idris as the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF).

[DA] The Democratic Alliance (DA) will this week refer all work performed by the controversial Housing Development Agency (HDA) during the Covid-19 pandemic to Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) for investigation and will writ...

[Leadership] A Chief Magistrates' Court sitting in Kano on Friday ordered the closure of a mosque belong to a popular cleric, Nasir-Kabara'.

[This Day] The Central Bank of Nigeria yesterday directed banks and other financial institutions to immediately close any accounts dealing in cryptocurrency or facilitating payment for crypto currency exchange, with immediate effect.