[allAfrica] As of August 29, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 7,723,439 while over 63,371,434 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[New Zimbabwe] A 99-year lease offer letter that was issued and signed by the minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Anxious Masuka to a fugitive who skipped the country 14 years ago has removed the lid on massive cor...

[Premium Times] Although the infection rates amongst women increased between 2016-2019, the use of antiretroviral treatment by them declined.

[DW] Many African heads of state saw German Chancellor Angela Merkel off at the Compact with Africa summit in Berlin. Merkel once more underlined Africa's potential -- and what needs to be done to use it.

[East African] Amid funding challenges, the African Union (AU) will deploy a reconfigured force of the continental body's peacekeeping outfit in Somalia for a proposed five-year period after the expiry of the current mandate at the end of this year.

[RFI] It took elephants in Kenya's Tsavo Conservation Area just three months to learn where to find underpasses built beneath a controversial new railway line that splits their territory in two, a new study shows.

[East African] Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam is humming along nicely, in harmony with the hustle and bustle of residents and visitors battling in their daily struggles. It all seems ordinary but, again, it isn't. Watching the ebb and fl...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Speaking at the UNSC open briefing on Tigray held on August 26, SC member states commonly known as A-3+1 said Ethiopia's incoming parliament "should prepare to lift" terrorist designation of "armed actors" to allow for...

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- Tanzania has expressed dismay at the Danish government's decision to close its embassy in Tanzania by 2024.

[RFI] The Gambia has formally blocked flights returning migrants deported from the European Union. Banjul argues that the country cannot reintegrate them.

[New Zimbabwe] Warriors' legend George Shaya was laid to rest at Warren Hills Cemetery in Harare on Saturday amid emotional scenes as the Zimbabwean football family bid farewell to the country's greatest footballer of all time.

[Premium Times] His nephew, Uwaifo Peter The Rock, broke the news on Facebook Saturday evening.

[VOA] Gabarone, Botswana -- The Botswana government has sought to assure thousands of undocumented immigrants they will not be left out of the country's COVID-19 vaccination program.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) strongly criticized the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission(EHRC) and accused it of omitting the atrocities it said were committed by the Amhara militias and government forces on Oromo ci...

[New Frame] Far from being the magical solution to Africa's lacklustre football competitions, the proposed new league appears to be a case of CAF wanting to sweep its own inefficiency under the carpet.

[Nation] Nigerian music maestro, guitarist and professor of music Victor Uwaifo has died aged 80.

[New Zimbabwe] A HUMAN rights lawyer, representing unvaccinated church congregants across the country, has filed an urgent High Court chamber application seeking to nullify the government ban on unjabbed worshippers from attending sit-in sermons.

[New Zimbabwe] TRADE promotion agency, Zimtrade has urged local farmers to tap into the US$1,7 million Bambara nuts (nyimo/indlubu) export market covering countries like the USA, UK and the Netherlands among others.

[Monitor] The second suspect in the company of an alleged suicide bomber that targeted mourners at the burial of late deputy Inspector General of Police, Gen Paul Lokech, at his home in Pader District, is still missing.

[Nation] So, as the Daily Nation front page proclaimed on Wednesday, the gloves are off and the battle between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto is now bare-knuckle after the former finally directly asked Dr Ruto to do the honourab...

[Vanguard] Legendary singer and guitarist, Sir Victor Uwaifo, is dead. 'Guitar Boy', as he was popularly called, died six months after celebrating his 80th birthday in March.

[Daily Trust] The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, served as the director-general of the Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation for the two successful presidential campaigns of President Muhammadu Buhri in 2015 and 2019. In this interview w...

[Daily Trust] A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Moghalu, recently said the federal government borrowed N15 trillion from the CBN.

[This Day] Victor Olaotan, the Nollywood thespian who played the enigmatic Fred Ade-Williams in the pioneering seasons of the longest-running TV drama series Tinsel died on Thursday, August 26. The actor who was involved in a ghastly accident while d...

[Leadership] The federal government through the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development is set to begin the repatriation of 322,000 Nigerian refugees from Niger, Cameroon and Chad.

[Premium Times] But despite the allocation of N1.89 billion between 2015 -2021 for the completion of the model school project by the state government, no appreciable work was done in the school within the period.

[Daily Maverick] The bid to liquidate the Gupta-owned Oakbay Investments has reignited, and this time a former business associate - who is already engaged in a R1-billion war with them in Bermuda - wants in on the fight.

[SAPS] Females from Free State engaged in August Women's Month operations and activities aimed at addressing issues pertaining to Gender Based Violence. The operations which were focused at Thabo Mofutsanyana District after it was identified as the D...

[Egypt Online] Egypt and Qatar on Saturday 28/08/2021 agreed on continuing consultations and working on reinforcing cooperation in the coming period.

[Egypt Online] Egypt looks forward to furthering political coordination with France regarding regional and international issues of mutual concern, especially sustainable development and regional peace and security, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said...