[allAfrica] On the 2nd of November 2021, the Vapour Products Association of South Africa (VPASA) organized a Diginar (digital seminar) with an unequivocal title: WHO's (World Health Organization) Dictatorial Tobacco Control Policies Ahead of COP-9.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Barakat has been chosen as South Africa's official submission for the best international feature category at the 94th Academy Awards that will take place on March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- At least 25 primary school children were killed after their straw-hut classrooms caught fire in Maradi region, Niger on Monday, November 8, 2021.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- More than 130 world leaders who gathered at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, have pledged to co-operate and reverse land degradation and forest loss by 2030 by signing the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use.

[UN News] A year-long conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has reached "disastrous proportions", the UN political chief told the Security Council on Monday, warning of "grave uncertainty" surrounding the future of the country and stability of th...

[Nation] Sarah Mukeli, 80, sits pensively outside Pumwani Highrise Phase 2 flats, staring up at the sky. She was born and bred in Pumwani, which comprises Majengo slum, where she lived until 15 years ago, when she became a beneficiary of the slum upg...

[Nation] The Labour court yesterday halted a decision by the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) Board to lay off over 900 staff and enlist the NYS and Kenya Defence Forces to oversee operations of the agency.

[Nation] Kenyans in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) will receive a stipend of Sh3,000 (per household) and Sh2,000 (per individual) from the government beginning next month, instead of food rations.

[This Day] The federal government yesterday said empowering youths in the country alone might no longer solve the problem of unemployment in the country.

[This Day] Abuja -- The federal government has disclosed that a total of 5,770,899 persons have been vaccinated so far in the country against COVID-19.

[CFR] Sudan's military leaders are prioritizing their own interests over that of their country. International actors should pressure the regime by raising the cost of doing so.

[Daily Maverick] Glasgow -- In an effort to ensure the success of the COP26 climate crisis negotiations and achieve the goal of shifting away from coal, 40 countries and institutions signed a pledge to end coal financing - but South Africa was missin...

[The Conversation Africa] Thirty years ago, ending energy poverty wasn't among the world's development goals. Neither the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development nor the Millennium Development Goals 2000-2015 placed it on the agenda.

[VOA] Blantyre, Malawi -- Malawi's parliament Monday welcomed the country's first ever elected albino lawmaker when it reconvened after months of recess. The presence of Overstone Kondowe in Malawi's national assembly, is seen as a victory for albino...

[AI London] Around 18,000 were robbed of their land The community has been struggling in inadequate resettlement camps Reports of continued killings, shootings and beatings by the Uganda Wildlife Authority

[This Day] The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammed Abubakar, has said the ministry will continue to strategise and collaborate with security agencies, to reduce the illegal importation of rice through land borders.

[RFI] Local resistance committees and the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) have organized a two-day protest to protest against the military coup d'etat carried out last month,

[Premium Times] The NNPC says there is no plan to increase fuel prices and advises customers against panic-buying.

[The Conversation Africa] In 2014, Kenya started to construct a new railway to connect the Mombasa Port with the interior and on to landlocked Uganda and Rwanda. Today the Standard Gauge Railway stops abruptly at Naivasha, 120km northwest of Nairobi....

[ISS] Research suggests that the links are overstated, especially compared to Africa's voting patterns with other council members.

[The Conversation Africa] After years of pressure, western countries are finally returning priceless artefacts and artworks that had been looted from Nigeria during colonial times and were on display in foreign museums.

[The Conversation Africa] South African writer Damon Galgut has won the UK's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, for his work The Promise. It was Galgut's third shortlisting for the career-defining award, which has evaded him until now...

[JusticeInfo.net] For the first time in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai province, a former militia leader was on October 30 convicted of war crimes by Congolese military justice. This took place in one of the villages set on fire in 2017 dur...

[Dalsan Radio] Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble met with the head of United Nations in Somalia, James Swan in the capital Mogadishu.

[East African] Sierra Leone Monday began three days of national mourning for victims of Friday's deadly tanker explosion.

[Nation] Siaya Governor Cornel Rasanga is in the eye of a storm following accusations that he's been influencing the allocation of vast swathes of land at the expansive Yala Swamp to a private developer.

[New Zimbabwe] Victoria Falls -- Elephants have been freely roaming this resort city's streets at night putting the lives of residents in danger as the animals forage for mango fruit trees.

[New Zimbabwe] A fact finding mission parliamentary portfolio committees on higher and tertiary education and women's affairs have brought to the fore the high levels of sexual abuse prevalent in both private and state tertiary institutions perpetrat...

[The Herald] THE Committee of Ministers of Trade (CMT) of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has approved extension of the implementation of the Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) for the period 2020-2030 in line with the revised Regio...

[The Herald] ENERGY and Power Development Minister, Zhemu Soda, has said the Hwange 7 and 8 expansion project is expected to come on-board by July and September 2022 respectively, adding 600MW into the national grid.