[allAfrica] As of April 23, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  4,474,055 while over 10,600,820 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- On April 22, the Black Farmers Association of South Africa (BFASA) is protesting against the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA)'s role in the monopolization of the Cannabis Industry. This is not the...

[allAfrica] While humanity is scrambling to prevent the cascading effects of climate change, a new global plan to turn 30% of the earth into environmental sanctuaries by 2030 is not the solution, according to Survival International.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Black farmers are taking on the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) over the exclusion of indigenous people in the handing out of cannabis licenses.

[VOA] As the conflict in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region enters its sixth month, the U.N. Security Council broke its silence Thursday to call for scaled-up humanitarian access and "a restoration of normalcy."

[VOA] France's foreign minister is defending the takeover of Chad's government by a transitional military council.

[New Zimbabwe] Local anti-corruption body, Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) has accused doctors employed in public hospitals of making unnecessary and illegal referrals to woe desperate patients to their private surgeries.

[AI London] Said Djabelkheir sentenced for three posts on Facebook questioning authenticity of certain aspects of Islamic belief Scholar has been target of death threats dating back more than ten years 'Algerian courts have no business judging peopl...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Addis Ababa -- With school closures, income losses and deepening poverty, children across Africa have been forced into work - in gold mines, cocoa farms and hawking on the streets

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Johannesburg -- Through digitising and worldwide donations, the University of Cape Town plans to preserve African history lost to fire

[Nation] A rebel group that the army accused of killing Chadian president, Idriss Deby Itno said it had given the late president's family until Thursday midnight to bury him.

[DW] Deby was a strongman, hailed by his allies but despised by his people. Experts say his death leaves behind a country torn apart, a region plagued by extremist groups and his Western allies unsure of how to proceed.

[DW] Libya has a new national unity government that promises free elections by year's end. But the roadblocks it faces are immense. DW's Conflict Zone confronts the country's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Tamim Baiou.

[Leadership] The United States, in its latest travel advisories, has directed its citizens to avoid 14 States in Nigeria, bedeviled with terrorism, banditry and kidnapping.

[Daily Trust] Nigeria has overtaken the Democratic Republic of Congo with 25 percent of people without access to electricity, making it the highest country globally with citizens that lack access to power.

[Premium Times] Mr Deby was a key ally in Nigeria's decade-long fight against Boko Haram.

[Premium Times] "There's not much constitutional democracy in Chad. They just paid lip service to democracy but what they had effectively in place was a military regime."

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- The Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) have said a tropical cyclone "Jobo" which has appeared in the Indian ocean, may impact the country's weather systems causing strong winds and waves especially in the coastal belt of ...

[African Arguments] People along the route of the proposed 1,443 km oil pipeline talk of confusion, uncertainty and lives on hold.

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[VOA] Paris -- Few countries are feeling the loss of Chad's President Idriss Deby more keenly than former colonial power France. Paris has long seen Deby as a key ally in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel. Now some observers say his death brin...

[Premium Times] Governor Bello Matawalle has expressed his sadness over the unfortunate incidents.

[New Zimbabwe] Incarcerated Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe is reported to have fallen ill at the Chikurubi Female Prison where she has been detained for over 45 days without trial and was Wednesday night rushed to hospital for treatment.

[WFP] Pemba, Cabo Delgado -- Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province is in the grips of a spiralling crisis as thousands of people flee their homes amidst violence, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

[ISS] The five-day terror attack on the coastal town of Palma last month once again stressed the severity of the conflict in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province. In its fourth year, the insurgency shows no signs of dissipating and exposes Mozambique's...

[Vanguard] Nigeria has the unenviable record of having the highest number of out-of-school children, OSC, in the world, it is currently put at over 15 million.

[IPS] New York -- Today marks Earth Day and all around the globe, advocates and activists, concerned citizens and the like will gather to raise awareness about the climate crisis.

[Nairobi News] The government has raised concerns over increasing cases of gender-based violence in the Country.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The Watergate complex wants to combat nationwide blackouts using energy from solar cells leased through an online platform

[Daily Maverick] President Cyril Ramaphosa's election announcement has fired the starting gun on several processes that may lead to important changes within our society - and the power balance in the ANC itself.