[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of September 28, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,245,763 while over 86,505,912 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Welcome to allAfrica's Silencing The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. I'm Mantsadi Sepheka from allAfrica. And today our focus is South Sudan.Africa's youngest independent state has been plagued by chronic ins...

[allAfrica] My name is Nandege and I am a peacemaker. I come from the village of Homiri in Chukudum county, South Sudan, where most of the population of some 150,000 people are subsistence farmers, just like my mother. When I was 24, I brokered peace...

[RFI] Investments of some $280 billion will be needed to combat the effects of climate change in 35 cities in South Africa, Kenya and Ethiopia by 2050, new research shows.

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's daily rate of new infections has been on a steady decline for some time. But, truth be told, a fourth wave is probably just on the horizon - and a fifth, and a sixth, and a seventh. This is true of every count...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Kenyan footballer Victor Wanyama announced his retirement from international soccer, with these words on Twitter:

[Daily News] President Samia Suluhu Hassan has pledged to build 15,000 classrooms countrywide in efforts to ensure that more children are going to school.

[Monitor] Police have said Kawempe North MP Muhammad Ssegirinya is being detained at Special Investigations Division in Kireka on fresh charges of treason and incitement to violence.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Harambee Stars great Victor Wanyama, the first Kenyan to play in the English Premier League (EPL) made a shocking announcement of retiring from international football MONDAY, after a 14 years stint.

[Monitor] Supporters of the Opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party in the US yesterday staged a peaceful demonstration outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, asking the international community to spotlight the excesses of Presid...

[The Conversation Africa] The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated counter-measures continue to shed light on the social and economic challenges facing African countries. Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa countries is expected to decline, putting...

[Monitor] What started as row at a run-off the mill Information Technology firm, Zeenode Ltd, has morphed into a protracted legal battle over intellectual property rights, specifically a software that had streamlined university operations.

[VOA] Gaborone, Botswana -- Botswana is set to emerge this week from an 18-month state of emergency that will remove the president's emergency powers and end pandemic restrictions on trade and gatherings. While many shops, bars, and restaurants want ...

[HRW] Nyon -- Sport & Rights Alliance Calls for Protection, Remedy, Governance Reform

[RFI] Mali's Prime Minister Choguel Maiga has defended comments he made before the UN General Assembly on Saturday that France had abandoned his country in mid-flight with the "unilateral" decision to reduce the number of French troops in the country...

[Premium Times] The northern governors condemn the position of their southern counterparts on the two issues

[UN] People across Africa are convening virtually this week to take the pulse of climate action, explore possibilities for action and showcase ambitious solutions. They will spotlight all that can be done in the region to slow rising temperatures and...

[This Day] The Kaduna state government has confirmed the killing of 34 people and destruction of houses by bandits in Madamai community, Kaura Local Government Area of the state.

[The Conversation Africa] The cows kept by small-scale farmers in Africa are notoriously unproductive. The average dairy cow, for example, produces about 540 litres of milk per lactation. By contrast, dairy cows in North America that belong to commer...

[Premium Times] "Nigeria is the only country that has succeeded in having this much recovery in the shortest period of around six years."

[ISS] The country's controversial CAR and Mozambique deployments should be seen as military diplomacy in support of economic ambitions.

[IPS] Hamilton, Ontario, Canada -- In 2020, every human on Earth created an average of at least 1.7 megabytes of data per second, collectively amassing 2.5 quintillion data bytes. Some 90% of the world's total data was created in the last two years a...

[MBC] The State has paraded two witnesses in the NBS Bank Fraud Case involving a businessman Dickson Kachingwe and two others being suspected of stealing K1 billion through dubious transactions.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] La Palma -- Emergency authorities early on Monday ordered people in an area on the eastern shore of La Palma island to lock down as the lava gushing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano approaches the sea.

[RFI] A system of abuse against migrants in Libya, carried out by militias and the government, is fueled by European Union money given to authorities in a country where violence has been normalized after years of instability, according to a new docum...

[HRW] Nairobi -- Rwandan authorities rounded up and arbitrarily detained over a dozen gay and transgender people, sex workers, street children, and others in the months before a planned June 2021 high-profile international conference, Human Rights Wa...

[CAJ News] Tripoli -- A VOTE of no confidence the House of Representatives (HoR) has passed against the Government of National Unity (GNU) has raised international concern and is a major setback towards retaining peace in Libya.

[CFR] Reports of a failed coup attempt in Sudan make clear the fragility of the transitional government, which is riven by civil-military tensions.

[Shabelle] Lamu -- A massive bomb attack was reported in Lamu County near the Somali border targeting a Kenyan military convoy in the latest incident in the porous region.

[CAJ News] The dust has settled on the ethnic clashes that recently left at least 12 people dead in northern Cameroon but humanitarian needs are escalating.