[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of June 23, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 5,248,147 while over 31,155,299 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[The Herald] Fungi Kwaramba -- Recently in Maputo, Mozambique

[Namibian] NAMIBIA's senior men's tennis team got off to a great start at the Davis Cup Africa Group IV tournament in Brazzaville, Congo this week, when they won their opening two ties.

[HRW] Nairobi -- Investigate, End Excessive Force Against Protesters

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Demola Adeleye and his family were sleeping in their three-bedroom bungalow when they were awoken by the sound of bulldozers demolishing the homes around them.

[Premium Times] The report, which tracked the human rights performance of most countries, stated that Nigeria's mismanagement of resources is largely responsible for the country's rarely improving human rights crises.

[This Day] The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has called for lower trade costs to boost Africa's economic recovery.

[This Day] Abuja -- The federal government has said Nigeria currently ranks highest in rate of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) in the whole world ahead of Democratic Republic of Congo and India.

[VOA] Mogadishu, Somalia -- With the Olympics in Tokyo now just a month away, Somalia is set to send its first female taekwondo athlete to the games in Japan.

[Nation] With a fledgling air quality monitoring system and a rising death toll related to pollution, now African scientists have embarked on a research assessment to save the continent from more air-borne troubles in future.

[The Conversation Africa] African forest elephants roam the dense rainforests of West and Central Africa where they subsist largely on a diet of fruit. They shape forests by dispersing fruit and seeds, browsing, and creating an extensive trail networ...

[Nation] More than 50 people including civilians have reportedly been killed after Ethiopian forces bombed a busy market at a town in the war-torn northern region of Tigray.

[UN News] Defense forces, soldiers from nearby countries and other security personnel have been fighting an "asymmetric war" against armed groups, sparking an "unprecedented humanitarian crisis", the top UN official in the country told the Security C...

[Botswana Daily News] Maputo -- SADC double troika members have approved deployment of a SADC standby force to Mozambique during a summit held in Maputo today.

[VOA] Yaoundé -- Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says tens of thousands of people in Cameroon's western regions have been deprived of lifesaving healthcare since December, when authorities stopped their services. Cameroon accused the aid g...

[VOA] Addis Ababa -- Long before sunrise on June 21, 2021, Ethiopians in the capital queued to vote in the country's first election in six years. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said it would be the country's "first attempt at a free and fair election."

[The Conversation Africa] Following a maritime boundary dispute, Somalia instituted proceedings against Kenya at the International Court of Justice in August 2014. The two east African neighbours dispute 160 000 square kilometres of territory in the ...

[African Arguments] The Somali National Army's recent infighting along clan lines exposed its ongoing fragility. But integration is possible.

[ISS] Without a single prosecution, the illegal trade in artefacts is causing a catastrophic loss for the country.

[SADC] Maputo -- 1. The Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was held at Joaquim Chissano International Conference Centre in Maputo, Republic of Mozambique, on the 23rd June 20...

[Nation] An election observer mission from the African Union (AU) has endorsed the Ethiopian poll as credible, despite security challenges faced in the country including in the northern Tigray region.

[Nation] Almost half of the girls who sat Kenya Certificate of Primary Education in 2020 failed to report to school on the resumption of learning last January.

[The Conversation Africa] North central Nigeria, known as the Middle Belt, is home to the country's capital city Abuja and six other states - Benue, Plateau, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger and Kwara.

[Namibian] PRESIDENT Hage Geingob says Namibia was never expecting to be in the situation it is now experiencing due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

[Namibian] The chief executive officer (CEO) of the Icelandic fishing giant Samherji yesterday issued an apology for the company's conduct in Namibia between 2014 and 2019.

[Daily News] IT must be hurting Simba a great deal after witnessing Kaizer Chiefs' success last week in the first leg of their semifinal against Morocco's Wydad Casablanca when they edged out their hosts by one goal to nil.

[Nation] Following street protests in Mogadishu and elsewhere in Somalia by mothers of army trainees supposedly in Eritrea, as well as criticism from other entities, Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has created a panel to investigate the c...

[Nation] Cameroon has secured a $192.2 million loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to build what officials describe as "a road for peace" in the troubled Anglophone region.

[Nation] Kenya will begin implementing a key trade deal with the European Union (EU), after partners in the East African region allowed Nairobi to go first.

[Nation] The putrid stench of waste water hits you as you approach Kaptimbor street in Kabarnet town, Baringo County.