[GroundUp] Up to 750,000 learners have dropped out of school during the Covid-19 pandemic according to the latest NIDS-CRAM findings, about three times the pre-pandemic level.

[East African] South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has said that seven years ago opposition leaders in Juba deceived the Kenyan government when it offered them political refuge after the country plunged into war.

[Premium Times] Polling units have been said to be central to the electoral process as they are the location where electorates exercise their voting rights.

[VOA] Kampala, Uganda -- Edward Bindhe was diagnosed in early June with COVID-19. Upon consultation with a doctor, he bought drugs off the shelf and stocked up on local herbs.

[VOA] UNICEF said Thursday it has signed a deal to provide up to 220 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to African Union member states by the end of 2022.

[AI London] One person dying from virus every 11 seconds, with poorer countries bearing brunt Nine new vaccine billionaires have profited from pandemic yet vast swathes of world have no access to jab 'Equal access to vaccines shouldn't be based on w...

[East African] A Zimbabwean top military official, Lieutenant-General Edzai Absalom Chakanyuka Chimonyo has died.

[ISS] Uncontrolled artisanal gold mining in Kayes is damaging the environment and fuelling trafficking and local conflicts.

[This Day] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has detected a confirmed case with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, also known as lineage B.1.617.2 in Nigeria.

[Premium Times] "The bandits broke walls to gain access to houses. They kidnapped tenants and house owners," Eunice Kasu, a resident, told Premium Times

[Premium Times] Earlier in June, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said a total of 289 Nigerians have died from the disease between January and June, 2021.

[This Day] The Federal Government has asked Germany to ensure a full and unconditional return of the 1,130 Benin artefacts that were looted from the country in the 19th century and domiciled in German museums.

[VOA] The foreign ministers of Egypt and Sudan appealed to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to intervene in their dispute with Ethiopia over the operation of a mega dam on the Nile River.

[spotlight] Thousands of healthcare contract workers in the Eastern Cape Department of Health face an uncertain future over the continued extension of their contracts. This follows two conflicting decisions on ending contracts of workers roped in Feb...

[FAO] New skills offer a way forward for people displaced by conflict and climate change

[New Zimbabwe] VICE President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga has dismissed a petition by pharmacists who were seeking to have the Public Health Act amended, and include them into the ministry's top administrative posts.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Developing countries need clarity and confidence now that the $100 billion a year pledged to help them tackle climate change will be delivered

[IPS] Bratislava -- Wildlife and environmental campaigners have called for international action as concerns grow over a project to create a massive oilfield in one of Africa's last wildernesses.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Women risk being overlooked in coronavirus responses with more than 10% of official taskforces made up entirely of men, finds U.N. analysis

[DW] South Sudan's ten years as an independent country have been marked by pervasive insecurity, a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and endemic corruption.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The country is curbing encroachment by paying farmers to grow trees for firewood and timber, but environmentalists say outside of plantations, the forest is still shrinking

[Daily Trust] She was the last Chibok girl to escape Boko Haram captivity in 2014; now the first to graduate with a degree in accounting from the American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State.

[Vanguard] Multi award-winning Nigerian entrepreneur, author and coach, Melody Fidel have partnered with an African University, Leadpreneur Academy based in Benin Republic to offer 100 percent tuition-free scholarship to Nigerians.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- For the second day, the Bushrod Island Power Station of the Liberia Electricity Corporation was a no-go-zone for senior staffers, following a protest by aggrieved workers that led to shutting down of the power grid and l...

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Nancy Dogbo commonly referred to as 'Kokoyah Queen' has gone down in the history as Liberia's first female serjeant-at-arms at the Legislature has worked for the past eight years in the human resource department.

[Premium Times] The German Minister of State for Culture says the 1,130 artefacts would be returned to Nigeria from the beginning of 2022.

[New Zimbabwe] Transport minister Felix Mhona has announced a new six-member interim board to the run affairs of the troubled national carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) following the unceremonious departure of administrator, Reggie Saruchera.

[Premium Times] The Egba women of Nigeria are keeping the craft of Adire making alive, and in doing so, earn modest forex for Nigeria.

[SAnews.gov.za] A criminal case has been opened after a camera SD card containing images of the former President Jacob Zuma being admitted at the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal was stolen.

[New Zimbabwe] Gukurahundi victims are concerned that perpetrators of the early 1980s human rights atrocities are dying without facing justice for the heinous crimes they committed during Zimbabwe's darkest hour.