[Premium Times] With about 81,640 deaths annually from malaria, Nigeria accounts for over 20 per cent of the 400,000 annual deaths, globally, from the disease.

[Daily News] PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has vowed to continue with efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality in the country. Addressing the National Assembly for the first time in Dodoma on Thursday, the president expressed the government com...

[Ethiopian Herald] Addis Ababa -- The United States Department of State named on Friday a veteran diplomat Jeffrey Feltman as a special envoy to the Horn of Africa.

[Zimbabwe Standard] President Emmerson Mnangagwa is repeating mistakes made by his predecessor Robert Mugabe by seeking to amend the constitution to entrench his rule, political analysts have warned.

[Nation] Nairobi -- The African Union has expressed reservations about the ability of Somalia to hold countrywide election involving all citizens.

[Leadership] Lagos -- With food inflation leaning at a tipping point of 23 per cent amid the recent 18.17per cent inflation figure released by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS), tougher times now await Nigerians, LEADERSHIP Sunday can now revea...

[Premium Times] The army said the second in command in the ESN was among those killed.

[Nation] More than 85 women have told nation.africa their menstrual flow either came way earlier than expected or was yet to show up about three weeks after they received the AstraZeneca jab.

[Reporter] More than 18.4 million voters were registered for the upcoming general elections until April 22, 2021, according to the National Election Board of Ethiopia. The voters have been registered at 41,659 polling stations.

[Premium Times] "Malaria-related absenteeism and productivity losses cost Nigeria, for example, an estimated US$ 1.1 billion every year. "

[Leadership] President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, strongly condemned the killing of three of the students kidnapped at Greenfield University, Kaduna State, describing it as barbaric.

[RFI] Monrovia -- The Liberian government has strongly condemned acts that disrupt regional stability after being informed that at least three Liberian nationals had been shot and killed in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire during an attack on a military b...

[ENA] Voter registration for the 6th General Election has been extended by two weeks, National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) announced today.

[Premium Times] The US government travel advisory identifies some high-risk zones in Nigeria, where kidnapping for ransom, terrorism and other security threats are recurrent.

[Zimbabwe Standard] President Emmerson Mnangagwa is allegedly under pressure from Zanu PF bigwigs to act on his trusted corruption buster Tabani Mpofu whom they accuse of extortion.

[Zimbabwe Standard] Parliament's controversial passing of proposed amendments to the constitution is now being challenged at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on the grounds that the process violated the country's supreme law.

[This Day] The Lagos State Government has disclosed a plan to partner the private sector for a sustainable economy to make the state a model in the world.

[This Day] Despite the nation's rising debt profile, the Senate, last week, approved the federal government's request for another $1.5bn, ?995m external loans, reports Udora Orizu

[This Day] Nigeria bears the main brunt of the deleterious effect of Malaria on the African continent year on year, as you read this piece ten children would have been infected with this disease. One out three Nigerian children that are infected with...

[This Day] In apparent move to strengthen Super Eagles midfield ahead of campaign at the next year's World Cup in Qatar, Head Coach, Gernot Rohr, has admitted he would want Crystal Palace star Eberechi Eze to commit to Nigeria because he is one of th...

[This Day] Ado Ekiti -- The Ekiti State University (EKSU) yesterday proscribed all labour unions within the institution due to continuous protests that disrupted academic and non-academic activities in recent time.

[Leadership] Extortion has returned to the port access roads as the electronic call-up system, also known as ETO, introduced by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to solve the perennial gridlock on the Apapa and Tin-Can Island port has collapsed.

[Leadership] The Senate has commenced amendment to the Electoral Act which may make or mar future elections in Nigeria, writes SUNDAY ISUWA.

[Leadership] Abuja -- The federal government has put all Federal Teaching Hospitals in the country on alert for the resurgence of the deadly Ebola virus in Guinea - Conakry.

[Leadership] Abuja -- The Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara (NMLWS) has condemned the decision by the ruling political party in France-"La Republique en March"(On the move) to, as part of its 5th anniversary commemoration, open a...

[Namibian] SWAPO president Hage Geingob on Saturday justified the recent appointment of young people to parliament.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The joint intelligence and security task force comprised of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), the Federal Police Commission, and Information Network Securi...

[Premium Times] The terrorists are distributing campaign pamphlets in Geidam for recruitment.

[Egypt Online] The Health Ministry said Friday 23/04/2021 that 884 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 220,658.

[Daily News] THE United States has provided US dollars 176 million (equivalent to 408bn/-) to Tanzania in the past four years to support the fight against Malaria in the country.