[Premium Times] Mr Buhari is due back in Nigeria in the second week of July, his office said.

[IPS] Washington DC -- In the race between infection and injection, injection has lost. Public health experts estimate that approximately 70% of the world's 7.9 billion people must be fully vaccinated to end the COVID-19 pandemic. As of June 21, 2021...

[Crisis Group] In mid-December, Sudanese troops moved into al-Fashaga, an agricultural area on the frontier with Ethiopia, expelling Ethiopian farmers and building fortifications. Fighting threatens to escalate. With assistance from outside mediators...

[This Day] An Italian appeals court yesterday overturned jail sentences handed down to a Nigerian, Mr. Emeka Obi, and an Italian, Mr. Gianluca Di Nardo, for their alleged role in the corruption trial case involving Eni and Shell over Nigeria's Oil Pr...

[This Day] Team Nigeria's women 4x400m relay team will be among the 16 nations that will file out for the event at the delayed 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo, Japan after the team scorched to a 3:26.84 African lead yesterday at the Lagos Open Athletics...

[Nation] Ten Kenya Air Force personnel have died while 13 others sustained injuries after the military aircraft they were in crash landed in Oltepesi, Kajiado West, during training.

[Nairobi News] Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has appointed his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba the commander of land forces in the army.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Several civilians were killed and injured in an aerial strike at an open market in the Tigray region on June 22, 2021. Togogua market in Dogu'a Tembien woreda is located some 25 km west of Tigray's capital Mekelle. Sou...

[VOA] Harare, Zimbabwe -- Amnesty International and 27 groups in southern Africa are calling for a faster pace of vaccinations as a new wave of coronavirus infections sweeps through the region.

[RFI] UN diplomats have accused Russian armed forces and paramilitaries of human rights violations and hampering UN peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic.

[Africa Renewal] Brazzaville -- The COVID-19 upsurge comes as the vaccine supply crunch persists.

[DW] As vote counting continues in Ethiopia, there's growing condemnation of a military airstrike on a marketplace in war-torn Tigray. The EU is demanding an independent probe and aid workers are calling for more protection.

[Daily Trust] A Twitter user has claimed Nigeria does not have the cold chain and distribution system for COVID-19 vaccines.

[ISS] As Nigeria's Twitter ban shows, online platforms are the new battleground between governments and their critics.

[AIM] London -- The European Union will next month consider sending military personnel to Mozambique to give support and training.

[The Conversation Africa] In early June, the Nigerian government announced that it had banned the use of Twitter in the country. This followed the media platform's decision to delete a tweet by the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, on the grounds...

[The Conversation Africa] Palm oil is everywhere today: in food, soap, lipstick, even newspaper ink. It's been called the world's most hated crop because of its association with deforestation in Southeast Asia. But despite boycott campaigns, the worl...

[Nation] Court of Appeal president Justice Daniel Musinga has appointed a seven-judge bench to hear and determine five appeals filed against a High Court ruling that blocked a plan to change the Constitution.

[RFI] Libya's transitional government renewed its commitment to holding elections in December at a UN-sponsored conference in Berlin, where Russia and Turkey reached a tentative plan to start withdrawing their foreign mercenaries from Libya.

[Daily Maverick] Concerns are increasing about the links between the industrial model of livestock agriculture, which whilst they may deliver "cheaper food" have an unfortunate tendency to add to the environmental and public health bill. The eggs you...

[263Chat] A top Chinese bank with a global portfolio including fossil fuel extraction, has tentatively agreed to stop financing the controversial Sengwa coal project in Gokwe after bowing to civic pressure.

[SAnews.gov.za] Efforts to suppress raging wildfires in the Coldstream and Koomansbos areas of Tsitsikamma, Eastern Cape where just over 2 400 hectares of commercial plantations and natural veld have been destroyed, are in full swing.

[Nation] President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee has taken the first step within party structures in its bid to forge a coalition with Mr Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).

[Nation] The government is still in the dark on how soon it can guarantee Nairobians enough water for domestic use.

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[Nyasa Times] Ntchisi has registered a remarkable 396 teenage pregnancies in the past six months, the district's Youth Friendly Health Services (YFHS) Coordinator, Thokozani Kaledzera, has disclosed.

[Daily Trust] We have no secessionist agenda--Ijaw

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[The Herald] Police have appealed to anyone with information which might lead to the arrest of a self-styled prophet only identified as Madzibaba Tichaona, who is accused of drugging a 26-year-old Harare woman before raping her several times over the...