[allAfrica] Cape Town -- South Sudan on Monday swore in hundreds of lawmakers to a newly created national parliament, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.

[allAfrica] As of August 2, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 6,746,085 while over 46,413,600 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Nation] Kenya will soon ban fish imports from China, the National Assembly's Committee on Agriculture has confirmed.

[Nairobi News] Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NWSC) boss Nahashon Muguna and his Athi Water Works Development Agency counterpart Michael Thuita risk arrest if they do not fix dysfunctional sewer lines in the city.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Cases involving threats to share private pictures have been increasing around the world in recent years, mainly affecting women and girls

[This Day] Nigeria has hinted that it would quit the Maritime Organisation for West and Central Africa (MOWCA) over what it termed the disregard for the rules of procedure regarding the eligibility of candidates nominated for the position of the secr...

[East African] Rwanda has lifted a 15-day lockdown effective August 1 and reimposed strict guidelines to contain Covid-19 infections that have been on the rise since June.

[New Times] EVER SINCE NEW MUSIC GENRES such as R&B, pop and Afro Beat were introduced in Rwanda, Rwandan artistes have made a huge impact on music and have created a fortune for themselves.

[East African] Learning institutions in Rwanda reopened Monday for the third term after the government lifted the 15-day lockdown on the capital Kigali and eight other districts.

[UN News] Capping years of deliberations, the UN General Assembly on Monday established a new platform to improve the lives of Afro-descendants, who have for centuries suffered the ills of racism, racial discrimination and the legacy of enslavement a...

[Agenzia Fides] Tombura -- The situation of 15,000 internally displaced persons in Tombura alone is becoming more serious every day, said Kia Moses, representative of the Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CODEP) who, along with other r...

[VOA] Bor, South Sudan -- Authorities in Unity state say at least seven people are reported dead after floods submerged several homes in Mayendit County in recent days. The floods have also displaced about 400 families, officials say.

[Nation] A two-year-old child from Kwale County succumbed to the Covid-19 delta variant as health authorities in the Coast region remain alert over a surge of the lethal Indian virus.

[HRW] Implement Motlanthe Commission's Recommendations; Investigate Security Forces

[DW] Two weeks after several South African provinces were hit by a wave of deadly violence, the process of rebuilding their destroyed infrastructure and reopening the scores of looted shops has yet to begin.

[The Conversation Africa] When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2019, I congratulated him in a public US and Africa dialogue forum. I thought he deserved the prize, given what he had done. In particular he sho...

[The Conversation Africa] Over a year into the pandemic, questions around immune responses after COVID continue to confound.

[Premium Times] All data indicate that Nigeria is no doubt in the third wave of resurgence of the SARS-COV-2 infection.

[The Conversation Africa] After years of pressure, Germany recently announced that an agreement had been reached to return hundreds of priceless artefacts and artworks that had been looted from Nigeria in colonial times and were on display in German ...

[spotlight] Troubles regarding the placement of community service doctors have made headlines once again this year, as it seems to do most years. The structural roots of these problems are long-standing and complex.

[Namibian] THE country's commercial and communal food production systems are increasingly threatened by climate change, a government analysis has revealed.

[RFI] Two parliament members in Tunisia have been placed in provisional detention, according to a statement from an opposition party. Late last week, an independent MP, was detained after he criticised the president's decision to suspend parliament a...

[WFP] To mark World Breastfeeding Week we pay homage to the people who step up daily to help vulnerable mothers and babies

[Radio Dabanga] El Fula -- Yesterday, a Misseriya tribesman was killed and two soldiers were injured in the northern part of West Kordofan. This is the latest incident of the tribal violence that erupted between Misseriya clans in the area last week,...

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- Following recent calls from African leaders to manufacturers and rich countries to ensure equity in distribution of the desperately needed COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa Region Office ...

[ISS] On 17 December 2010 a young Tunisian, Mohamed Bouazizi, immolated himself as a sign of protest in the small town of Sidi Bouzid. This dramatic, isolated act led to mass protests across Tunisia and much of North Africa, Yemen and Syria, eventual...

[New Frame] With their businesses hit during the recent unrest, Somalis from Mayfair helped each other evacuate workers and stock from some of the worst-hit areas. Now they have to rebuild.

[This Day] The federal government has warned that House Officers on mandatory two-year housemanship training that embark on strike would be made to repeat the posting without remuneration. This was contained in a statement signed by Registrar, Medica...

[This Day] The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday dispelled speculations that it was planning to convert the foreign exchange (FX) in domiciliary accounts of bank customers into naira.

[Premium Times] "My ambition is to become a health information manager and ensure Marte gets adequate clinics," says one of the displaced persons