[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Thandi Modise, Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele, and Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Thabang Makwetla were held hostage by disgruntled military veterans w...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- A new analysis of online content in six African nations referring to Covid-19 vaccines has revealed that posts reflecting distrust of, or hesitancy over, vaccinations are dominating social media.

[The Conversation Africa] The honeybee may be the best-known pollinator of plants, but there are thousands of pollinator species, including other bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies and even some birds and mammals. Pollinators help to produce fo...

[UN News] Deaths from tuberculosis - one of the top infectious killers in the world - have increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

[The New Humanitarian] Malakal, South Sudan -- 'Thinking along ethnic lines is not helpful. If we want to feed our families, we need to stay together.'

[Nation] US President Joe Biden on Thursday asked Kenya to play a central role in securing the Horn region, even as he pledged to donate a further 17 million doses of J&J Covid-19 jabs to the African Union.

[Nation] Emmanuel Rotich, the husband of slain Kenyan long distance athlete Agnes Tirop, has been arrested in Mombasa, Nation Sport can confirm.

[Premium Times] Allocation for the meals of Mr Buhari and Mr Osinbajo's office has been pegged at N457 million in the proposed 2022 budget.

[Stop TB Partnership] The Stop TB Partnership notes with concern the data released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the 2021 Global Tuberculosis Report, which features data on disease trends and the response to the epidemic fro...

[Nairobi News] The High Court has declared the Huduma Namba rollout illegal on grounds of conflicting with the Data Protection Act, 2019.

[Nation] Guinea's strongman Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power last month, has sacked 42 generals and admirals in an apparent purge of the military top brass.

[Nairobi News] The government appeared to have bowed to pressure to reduce the price of petrol.

[Nation] Pro-democracy protests by Eswatini schoolchildren intensified this week, with reports emerging that learners were shot at by the military and police.

[The Conversation Africa] Globally more than 400,000 people die of malaria annually. Africa carries a disproportionate burden of the disease. In 2019, 94% of deaths and cases were recorded in the region.

[DW] Military attacks are once again punctuating the ongoing crisis in Ethiopia. But government officials have not acknowledged a fresh offensive, which Tigray forces say began last week.

[The Conversation Africa] Today's global energy inequities are staggering.

[African Arguments] The West African bloc and the African Union are suffering from a credibility problem, but they are not irredeemable.

[Premium Times] "I can authoritatively confirm to you that Abu Musab is dead. As simple as that. He is dead and remains dead."

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] From renting tractors to monitoring crops by satellite, a slew of agri-tech innovations have emerged over the last decade to serve Africa's long-neglected small-scale farmers

[allAfrica] As of October 14, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,409,152 while over  110,520,032 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[The Conversation Africa] "People aren't born white, they become white." This realisation dawned on the former French footballer, World Cup winner and anti-racism activist Lilian Thuram while he was engaged in talks with the white French organisers o...

[Nation] A top Kenyan scientist who participated in a ground-breaking medical research is confident of a malaria-free future after the World Health Organization (WHO) approved the first vaccine for children.

[Nation] As political formations for the 2022 elections take shape, the issue of gender equality in contest tickets has gained greater significance.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- The Uganda Alcohol Industry Association has launched an industry report that sheds light on the trade and consumption of Illicit alcohol in Uganda.

[ISS] Despite unease on both sides, each country could gain from the ruling if they were willing to restore relations.

[VOA] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- The Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou returns to Burkina Faso this weekend after being canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[Premium Times] The government says public and private channels should comply.

[Premium Times] The surrendered terrorists comprise 3,243 males, 3,868 females and 6,234 children.

[New Era] Namibia's total debt as a percentage of gross domestic debt (GDP) has breached the Southern African Development Community (SADC) benchmark of 60%.

[The Herald] A South African tourist was yesterday trampled to death by an elephant while taking an unguided tour in the Mana Pools National Park.