[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of June 29, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 5,437,405 while over 32,500,561 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- South Africa's top court gave the country's former president, Jacob Zuma, a verbal tongue-lashing on Tuesday for his defiance of the law and ordered him to report to police within five days to serve a 15-month prison sentence...

[Swazi Media] A curfew has been imposed across Swaziland (eSwatini) as pro-democracy protests intensify and unconfirmed reports say absolute monarch King Mswati III has fled the kingdom.

[Daily Trust] Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been arrested.

[New Zimbabwe] INFORMAL traders at Tichagarika shopping centre and Glen View 8 home industries complex in Harare have equated the government's decision Tuesday to demolish their market stalls to death sentences as vending was their only source of sur...

[Seychelles News Agency] The ability of the Seychelles Coast Guard to combat maritime crimes has been given an added boost after a fast patrol vessel given by the Indian government was put into operation on Tuesday.

[Premium Times] BUA's Abdul Samad Rabiu is appointed inaugural president of the France-Nigeria Business Council.

[Nairobi News] Investigations into the murder of Ugandan cabinet minister Katumba Wamala's daughter and driver appeared to take a complicated twist after theieves reportedly stole CCTV cameras believed to have captured the assailants.

[spotlight] Ventilation plays an important role in preventing the transmission of airborne disease but currently, ventilation standards for buildings are focused on preventing odours in spaces, instead of preventing disease transmission. Both Tubercu...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- More than 128 countries have committed to compete in the World Athletics Under-20 Championships to take place in Nairobi from August 17-22, Local Organizing Committee (LOC) boss Myke Rabar confirmed.

[Vanguard] French President Emmanuel Macron has inaugurated the France-Nigeria Business Council.

[ISS] For those living in Boko Haram-affected areas of the Lake Chad Basin region, the risk of COVID-19 is high. The long-standing humanitarian crisis, unequal access to vaccines, the emergence of COVID-19 variants, vaccine hesitancy and the risk of ...

[African Arguments] The recent murder of three chiefs highlights traditional leaders' role in the Anglophone crisis and suggests the conflict is far from over.

[Nyasa Times] Minister of Education, Agnes Nyalonje, was sent out of the Malawi Parliament on Tuesday morning for not wearing a school uniform as all other female legislators had done.

[East African] A South Sudanese clearing company is seeking to challenge termination of its operations at the Port of Mombasa by two South Sudan government agencies.

[Nation] The Covid-19 pandemic has seen the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) release their lending purse strings for Kenya in a trend that has seen Kenya net nearly Sh500 billion in a year.

[Nation] Kenya will have vaccinated its entire adults population of 26 million by 2022, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on Tuesday in a national address on the Covid-19 pandemic.

[Nation] The wealth of top State officials -- including the President and his deputy -- will be made public if MPs accept a fresh bid to change the law on lifestyle audits.

[Nation] Mr Patel Mansukh Shantilal, the owner of Patel Dam in Solai, Nakuru County, which burst in 2018 killing at least 48 people, has died at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi.

[Nation] Somalia's much-delayed presidential election will be held on October 10, according to a new timetable announced by Prime Minister Hussein Roble's organising team.

[New Times] Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA) is set to embark on a new building code that should be implemented while constructing houses destroyed by earthquakes and tremors resulting from Nyiragongo volcanic eruption in late May 2021.

[The Conversation Africa] As an academic working at a university in Kenya, I've witnessed at first hand the massive disruptions to learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation is not unique to Kenya. Universities in neighbouring Uganda, Rw...

[VOA] Nairobi -- A global development organization says women run more online businesses in Africa, but face greater challenges than online firms led by men.

[VOA] The African wild dog, or African painted dog, is one of the world's most endangered mammals, with fewer than 7,000 remaining, mostly because of human-wildlife conflict.

[Vanguard] Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, gave reasons why he abandoned his trial and escaped out of the country in 2017.

[Premium Times] Britain's foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, made the announcement on Monday at a meeting of the Global Coalition against Daesh in Rome.

[VOA] Abuja -- A 13-minute-long video shows fighters from both factions chanting in solidarity. Soon afterward, the Boko Haram fighters pledge their support for the newly appointed Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) commander, known as "Khal...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] World's first index ranking the largest 35 fashion retailers causes concern amongst campaigners as companies average a score of 29 out of 100

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] LGBT+ Rwandans say they are often fired, evicted, labelled as satanic, or ostracised by family and friends if they come out, with violent threats forcing some to flee the country

[The Conversation Africa] A cocoa pricing agreement designed to protect farmers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana from destitution is being circumvented by multinationals, the main buyers of cocoa beans.