[allAfrica] As of March 27, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 4,164,880 while over 6,230,004 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Only a fifth of global climate finance contributions have so far gone towards adaptation, with most support focused on cutting greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries.

[DW] As militants launched an attack on Mozambique's Palma, workers are seeking refuge at the Amarula hotel. An operation is underway to rescue the workers, said the government.

[CFR] The deterioration of Kenya's economic prospects during COVID-19 has intensified backlash to its participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The COVID-19-induced economic slowdown has accelerated a reckoning with the underlying frag...

[Times of Zambia] University of Lusaka (UNILUS) has banned students from wearing inappropriate outfits while attending classes or engaging in other academic pursuits on or off campus, sparking uproar on social media platforms.

[RFI] Eritrea will pull its troops out of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday, suggesting a potential breakthrough in the drawn-out conflict that has seen atrocities committed against civilians.

[Swazi Media] Nearly 60,000 people in Swaziland (eSwatini) face starvation or death without immediate action, Save The Children reported.

[spotlight] It is a hundred years since the BCG (Bacille Calmette-Guerin) vaccine, the only registered vaccine proven to offer some protection against tuberculosis , was first used in people. A relative shortage of public funding and little interest ...

[263Chat] The government has ordered touts out of public spaces following a recent video of an elderly woman being harassed at a bus terminus went viral on social media.

[Nyasa Times] Parents and guardians wants swift government intervention to avert another strike in public schools.

[Monitor] Government has confirmed that Uganda has registered Covid-19 cases with the South African strain B1 351 and Nigerian variant B.1.525.

[Citizen] Chato -- Former President John Magufuli will be buried today in his hometown of Chato in Geita Region.

[Nation] Somali immigrants living in Nairobi and people suspected of funding terrorism could be deported or have their properties requisitioned in the coming days as Kenya continues to flex its muscles amid deteriorating relations between it and Soma...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Canada extended the freeze on assets linked to some family members of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to five more years from March 24, 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Ab...

[Nyasa Times] A court in Nkhata Bay has found two people guilty of gruesome murder of a person with albinism.

[The Herald] The Indian Government has announced that its donation of Covid-19 vaccines to Zimbabwe's is arriving in the country on Monday.

[The Herald] Victoria Falls Reporter

[U.S. House] Washington, DC -- Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted unanimously to send House Resolution 245 to the House Floor. The resolution calls for renewed, decisive, and robust international collaboration and coordination to fight ...

[CFA] Washington, DC -- The Constituency for Africa (CFA), a Washington, DC based education and advocacy organization, organized a virtual forum on Thursday, March 18th, focused on developments in the Sudan following the overthrown of longtime dictat...

[Daily Maverick] To vaccinate the whole South African population by the end of 2021, we need to vaccinate about 142,000 people daily. This is only possible if we establish vaccination centres across the country and allow the private sector to manage ...

[Daily Maverick] This week, an investigation revealed the reasons behind the Eastern Cape's high Covid-19 fatality rate. Meanwhile, the province's hospitals are struggling through a dangerous staff shortage. Military healthcare workers have still not...

[CFR] Nigerian lawmakers are seeking passage of a Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) that would reorganize the oil industry. Since the establishment of civilian government in 1999 after a generation of military rule, repeated attempts at passing a PIB hav...

[CFR] On March 17, around one hundred assailants, traveling on motorcycles and pickup trucks, killed thirty-three soldiers and wounded an additional fourteen in an attack near Tessit in central Mali. Peacekeepers operating under the UN Multidimension...

[New Era] The Windhoek High Court is today expected to grant a final order for Air Namibia's liquidation after the embattled national airline was placed under provisional liquidation in late February.

[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum / Omdurman -- Yesterday, the Sudanese Interior Ministry distanced itself from remarks by the Director of Khartoum State Police, Lt Gen Issa Adam Ismail, calling for the Public Order Law to be reinstated "to combat crime".

[Times of Zambia] Cabinet has approved the Coronavirus (COVID-19) COVAX vaccine procured by United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) under the World Health Organisation (WHO) and targets to voluntarily vaccinate 3.7 million Zambians aged...

[Daily Maverick] Contributing to astronomy's 'sharpest photography', local brainpower helps take us closer to some of the most mesmerising objects in the universe.

[New Zimbabwe] Murewa -- The family of murdered Tapiwa Makore have rejected a state assisted funeral to bury the remains of their departed son who died in September last year.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered his entire Cabinet and members of the Executive to lead by example and get vaccinated against Coronavirus.

[Nation] More than 114,000 people living with HIV in Homa Bay County are facing an uncertain future following delays in delivery of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, which threatens to wipe out the recent gains in suppressing the deadly infection in the de...