[allAfrica] As of September 24, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,211,300 while over  86,011,313 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] As of September 23, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,196,254 while over 83,245,773 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[VOA] Mogadishu -- Somalia's National Theater in Mogadishu held a landmark event Wednesday night, screening movies for the first time in three decades.

[Nation] MPs are now pushing to have Kenya Power board members sent home over procurement fights with the management as problems at the country's sole electricity distributor soar.

[Unicef] Geneva/New York/Oslo -- A joint statement from COVAX partners -- CEPI  Gavi  Unicef  WHO

[The Conversation Africa] Ghana's Third Republic lasted for just two years - from September 24, 1979 to December 31, 1981. Jerry Rawlings book-ended these two events. In 1979 he stepped aside following an election narrowly won by Dr. Hilla Limann. Ra...

[The Conversation Africa] Setting global health targets, which is often done by multinational organisations, such as the United Nations or World Health Organisation (WHO), is commonly used to improve health outcomes. For example, the United Nations t...

[Premium Times] Bandits on 5 July invaded Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna and kidnapped over 100 students.

[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville -- COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa must rise by over seven times from around 20 million per month to 150 million each month on average if the continent is to fully vaccinate 70% of its people by September 2022.

[allAfrica] At the end of a two-day visit to the Sahel, France's defence minister warned Mali against hiring paramilitaries from Russian private-security firm Wagner, RFI reports.

[East African] Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila could be in trouble after victims of his alleged misdeeds lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing him of killing or torturing their relatives.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Anyone visiting the United States of America (USA) from November must have been vaccinated to be granted access.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The US Embassy in Kenya has introduced a waiver for need of interviews for eligible applicants whose visa have expired within a year.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- Tanzania and Uganda's private sector partnership have agreed on four issues that need addressing if local businesses in the two countries are to benefit from the $3.5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) from Hoi...

[Greenpeace] Kinshasa, 23 September, 2021 --  As international donors prepare to announce a purported 1 USD billion forest protection agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the DRC government is planning to lift a moratorium on new logging...

[Premium Times] Mr Malami says the federal government had also succeeded in identifying and detaining "high profile individuals" responsible for funding terrorists' activities in the country.

[RFI] Algeria has closed its airspace to all Moroccan planes due to "provocations and hostile practices" by its neighbour, in the latest dispute between the countries at odds mainly over Western Sahara.

[Nation] Kenya is on high alert ahead of next month's judgment on the Indian Ocean boundary dispute with Somalia, which is expected within government circles to be adverse.

[Premium Times] This first of a two-part series captures how the federal government's failure to fund the #EndSARS panel in Abuja has dashed the hopes of over 300 victims and relatives of victims of police brutality.

[This Day] Abuja -- Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun has said the bilateral relations and trade between China and Nigeria would soon reach a new higher level.

[The Exchange] Nothing should ever be taken at face value... more so if what is being presented is economic statistics and data. Objectivity is essential in dealing with any kind of economic analysis to get the most accurate and truthful picture of a...

[JusticeInfo.net] A former army captain who deserted to form a militia in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was sentenced on September 21 to life in prison. Chance Mihonya was found guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes and environment...

[HRW] Item 4 Enhanced Interactive Dialogue with the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan

[VOA] Dakar -- Former Chadian president Hissene Habre was ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars to victims of human rights abuses after his conviction by a special court in 2017. But by the time he died in August, Habre's victims had still not r...

[VOA] Kampala -- Uganda is scaling up coronavirus vaccinations with the arrival of another 1.6 million doses from the United States. But with many Ugandans still reluctant to get the shot, the Ministry of Health has taken the unusual move of reaching...

[VOA] Geneva -- The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan warned that the country is suffering a human rights crisis of epic proportions, enmeshing its population in a cycle of violence, abuse and poverty. The report was submitted to the U.N...

[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon's military says separatist fighters have, for the first time, used anti-tank rockets smuggled from Nigeria to attack army convoys.

[African Arguments] Environmental degradation is a key driver of insecurity. To achieve peace, we must protect the planet and finance these efforts accordingly.

[New Times] Rwanda has won the hosting rights for the 2025 UCI Road World Cycling Championships, becoming the first African country to organise the world's biggest cycling event since its inception in 1921.

[Capital FM] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to make a ruling on the longstanding maritime dispute between Kenya and Somalia, a development that is expected to have far-reaching ramifications on the use of Indian Ocean waters claimed ...