[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of September 14, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,056,189 while over 77,904,635 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[New Zimbabwe] In an effort to address rampant substance abuse among the youth in the country, the government Tuesday approved a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral approach in order to arrest the situation under Operation Clean up Harare Ghetto.

[HRW] Nairobi -- Release Everyone Arbitrarily Detained

[New Zimbabwe] HUNDREDS of students at Harare Polytechnic College were left stranded after authorities at the institution barred them from entering its premises for failing to produce Covid-19 vaccination cards.

[New Zimbabwe] The High Court Application by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) for an order blocking companies from forcing their employees to undergo mandatory Covid-19 vaccination has been struck off the urgent cases roll.

[263Chat] The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Harare has condemned the Israeli's occupation authority's acts of collective punishment through brutal raids and attacks towards Palestinian detainees and their family members.

[The Herald] ZANU PF is poised to win the 2023 elections resoundingly after attracting millions of new members in little over a year due to people-oriented policies and development projects.

[The Herald] Senior Reporter

[Nation] Data collected and analysed by the Ministry of Health paints a worrying picture on the rate of Covid-19 infection and deaths among health care workers in the country.

[This Day] In an effort to rekindle the hope of returned male victims of human trafficking in Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation, Patriotic Citizen Initiatives, PCI has opened a shelter that will receive, relieve and empower returnees.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Yesterday, Agency for Civil Society Organizations (ACSO) said it will take punitive measures against aid agencies suspected of working on issues outside of the purpose for which they were established that threaten Ethi...

[VOA] Kampala -- Ugandan prosecutors have dropped money laundering charges against human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo. Police arrested Opiyo in December, along with three other lawyers and an opposition party official, as they collected evidence abou...

[VOA] Washington/Mogadishu -- An explosion from suicide bombing has killed at least 11 people Tuesday in the Somali capital, witnesses and officials said.

[VOA] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Somalia's president is forming a committee to investigate the case of a missing spy, declared dead by the country's National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), though the time and circumstances of her demise remain u...

[HRW] Bangui -- Special Criminal Court Charges Sanctioned Commander

[UN News] More than 5.7 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally, but only 2% of them in Africa, said World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday.

[RFI] Industry giant British American Tobacco (BAT) has doled out payments to dozens of individuals and conducted 'potentially unlawful surveillance' to tighten its market grip on the African continent, according to two reports published today, Tuesd...

[RFI] The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has reported that at least 480 civilians were killed in jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso between May and August this year. There is also concern for thousands of other people displaced due to the conflict.

[HRW] Effective Law Enforcement, Access to Shelter, Financial Support Are Critical

[DW] Thousands of people have died and tens of thousands have fled their homes in Niger's Tillaberi region, which is being ravaged by terrorist attacks. Now, the attackers are increasingly targeting children.

[Vanguard] As President Muhammadu Buhari presents the Senate with another request for the consideration and subsequent approval of a fresh external borrowing to the tune of $4.054 billion, Nigeria's external loan stock is set to reach an all-time hig...

[This Day] Six Nigerians have been named by the United Arab Emirates as financiers of terrorism including Boko Haram and other criminal activities.

[The Conversation Africa] The Sahel stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. It encompasses a dozen of countries including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.

[The Conversation Africa] In July, the United Nations sounded alarms with its 2020 hunger report, which documented a 25% increase from 2019 to 2020 in the number of severely undernourished people in the world. Sub-Saharan Africa saw a similar spike w...

[Chatham House] For the first time since the Arab Spring an Islamist party has been removed from power through the electoral process as Morocco's voters dismiss the ruling PJD.

[ISS] Sustained military support to policing is an option, but the armed forces are wholly unprepared for such a role.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Young people's feelings of anger, fear and powerlessness arise less from environmental damage than from the unwillingness of adults to stop it, a Lancet study finds

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Until now, Mukuru residents have had no option but to buy polluted water from informal vendors charging exorbitant prices

[New Era] The newly elected leadership of the umbrella organisation for persons with disabilities promised to tackle inequality in the basic education sector.

[New Zimbabwe] The family of late former president Robert Mugabe has filed an appeal against the ruling by a Chinhoyi magistrate dismissing the application to nullify an order by a traditional court to exhume his remains and rebury them at the Nation...