[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Thousands of prisoners taken by Tigrayan forces have been paraded through the recaptured regional capital, Mekelle, in an apparent breach of the principles of international law governing the treatment of prisoners-of-war.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of July 5 confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 5,665,391 while over 35,094,444 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[RFI] An international arrest warrant has been issued for the son of Mali's former president over the disappearance of an investigative journalist in Bamako in 2016.

[This Day] Abuja -- About 400,000 barrels of crude oil is lost daily to theft, according to data from the federal government.

[Daily Trust] The management of Asokoro District Hospital has announced that it would dispose 39 unclaimed corpses which have been in its custody between 2019 and 2021 if their relatives failed to show up within seven days.

[New Times] Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) has launched a crackdown on the corruption that has for years been reported in Rwandan football.

[The Conversation Africa] Angola has a unique electoral system. Its main peculiarity is that it involves voters electing the president, deputy president and members of parliament simultaneously with a single mark on a single ballot paper.

[The Conversation Africa] Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is under-performing, leaving 30% of people in the region food insecure. Food insecurity means that not all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, saf...

[Nation] Ethiopia on Monday announced plans to cut the number of embassies it has in other countries by at least half in a bid to save costs.

[Nation] The 2013 World 800m champion Eunice Sum has replaced 2016 Olympic javelin silver medallist Julius Yego as the athletics team captain for the Tokyo Olympic Games.

[Nation] Brigadier General Odowa Yusuf Raghe, the commander of the Somali National Army (SNA), stated on Sunday that a senior al-Shabaab operative was killed in a military operation.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Reports are surfacing to the arbitrary arrest and rounding up of ethnic Tigrayans residing in Addis Abeba by police along with non-uniformed security forces. Addis Standard received reports indicating that these arrest...

[VOA] Hwange, Zimbabwe -- Conservationists in Zimbabwe are trying to rally opposition to a Chinese coal mining project planned in a district within the country's biggest national park. Critics say locals and wildlife will be affected and are urging a...

[Premium Times] Section 9(A) of the newly passed bill states: "As from the commencement of this law, the police shall refrain from parading any suspect before the media."

[Premium Times] The governors, instead, supported five per cent share to the communities.

[Nigeria Health Watch] "Nobody can convince me to take the COVID-19 vaccine. I don't trust the government to give me anything that is free and good for me. Nothing is free in Nigeria. I know they want to insert a microchip in us so that they can cont...

[Daily Trust] There will be no hiding place for foreign nationals and their collaborators who want to turn the country into a dumping ground for substandard products, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, has said.

[Daily Trust] Some of the parents of Bethel Baptist High School, Kujama, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, said over 100 students were abducted by bandits.

[This Day] Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lawyer representing the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has raised the alarm over his deteriorating health condition due to his solitary confinement and ment...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Federal high court Lideta branch anti- terrorism and constitutional 2nd bench today arrived at guilty verdict on the three defendants accused of having involvement in the assasination of Hachalu Hundesa.

[ISS] Despite some delays, 21 June saw Ethiopia hold its sixth national elections since the downfall of the Derg regime and the reconfiguration of the state along ethno-regional lines in 1991. Although the 2005 polls had an element of competitiveness...

[WHO] The World Health Organization announced multiple commitments to drive change for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity at the Generation Equality Forum, held last week in Paris. The WHO commitments focuse...

[RFI] France is to resume joint operations with the Malian Armed Forces, after suspending them early last month following Mali's second coup in less than a year. Lemine Ould Salem, a journalist specialising in the Sahel, says the French president's d...

[RFI] Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio rolled out a number of new nationwide measures, including a curfew that begins on Monday at 11PM to stem the increasing number of cases of Covid-19 in the country.

[spotlight] Dr Yakub Essack's phone is on silent - a luxury for the Gauteng GP. Ever since the third wave of Coronavirus smashed into Gauteng this winter, the phone has been a permanently bleeping fixture in his hand.

[SALC] On Friday, 2 July 2021, the Southern Africa Litigation Centre supported the filing of an urgent application in the High Court of Eswatini before Honourable Justice Qinisile M. Mabuza (Melusi Simelane v MTN Eswatini, Eswatini Mobile and others)...

[East African] Somalia is halving the registration fees for women candidates to encourage more participation in the upcoming elections.

[Capital FM] A plan by the European Union not to recognize Covid-19 vaccines manufactured outside the block could set back global efforts to contain the pandemic. The intended vaccines passport by the EU risks leaving out travelers from developing co...

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has expressed his party's readiness to form a strong government, if declared winner of the 6th General Election by the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia.

[Daily Maverick] Opposition gatecrashes SADC meeting with Eswatini ministers aimed at defusing crisis in the kingdom.