[allAfrica] As of November 30, 2021, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,644,490 while over  145,314,195 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Geneva -- The World Health Organization says that South Africa and Botswana should be thanked for detecting, sequencing, and reporting the new Covid-19 variant, known as Omicron and not penalized.

[allAfrica] Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija, an African Union vaccine expert, has slammed a decision by Western governments to ban African travelers following the emergence of the Omicron Covid-19 variant. In a televised interview on BBC, Olatunbosun-...

[allAfrica] As of November 29, 2021, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,638,733 while over 145,314,195 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[VOA] Gaborone, Botswana -- Botswana's government has lost a bid to overturn a 2019 court ruling that decriminalized same-sex relations. Human rights groups have welcomed the decision, saying it opens the door to challenge what they say are other dis...

[RFI] Hours after news about Covid-19 Omicron mutation hit the headlines, the World Trade Organization (WTO) announced it was postponing a crucial meeting set for 30th of November in Switzerland. WTO members were to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic.

[New Zimbabwe] South African opposition Action South Africa party leader Herman Mashaba has urged the neighbouring country's government to impose economic sanctions on Zimbabwean government and Zanu PF officials and freeze their assets saying this wo...

[The Herald] PROMINENT Banker Mr Douglas Munatsi (51) died early yesterday in a mysterious fire that authorities say is now under investigation.

[The Herald] SUSPENDED Harare mayor Jacob Mafume plans to ask the courts to drop charges of attempting to defeat the course of justice, in which he is accused of attempting to interfere with a witness in the trial on the more serious charge of illega...

[Nyasa Times] Presidential taskforce on CoVID-19 has endorsed use of Pfeizer-BioNTech vaccine that covers for people as young as 12 years old and above.

[New Times] Rwanda will, effective Tuesday November 30, gradually roll out Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to elderly citizens aged 50 and above, the Ministry of Health announced om Monday.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- State Minister of Education Dr. Samuel Kifle said more than 1.2 million students were out of school due to the ongoing war in northern Ethiopia.

[VOA] Kampala, Uganda -- Ugandan officials are rejecting reports that China could take control of the country's only international airport because of a failure to honor a loan agreement. China's embassy in Uganda also dismissed the report. But analys...

[HRW] November 30 -- One Year On, Beatings, Teargassing, Shootings Go Unpunished

[UN News] Unless leaders tackle stark inequalities, the world could face 7.7 million AIDS-related deaths over the next 10 years, the Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) warned on Monday in a new report.

[UN News] The emergence of the threatening new Omicron variant shows how important it is for the world to end the current "cycle of panic and neglect" over the COVID-19 pandemic, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday.

[WHO] Five million lives worldwide have already been lost to COVID, and WHO and ACT-Accelerator grimly predict another 5 million more lives will be lost in months to come. Alarmingly also, COVID cases will swell from the 260 million deaths confirmed ...

[RFI] Senegal's Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall says she hopes China will lend support in the fight against insecurity in the Sahel region at opening of a China-Africa summit in Dakar.

[DW] Millions of domestic workers in Africa continue to work under appalling conditions with very little pay. Trade unionists are now calling for integrating them into the formal sector.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Elburgon, Kenya -- A growing number of bereaved Kenyan families are sounding the alarm over the sudden deaths of female relatives working in Saudi Arabia

[The New Humanitarian] Johannesburg -- 'We will continue to be vulnerable to new variants and will continue to suffer new waves of infection.'

[DW] As Gambians prepare to head to the polls, the youth are bitterly divided on whether President Adama Barrow should be running in the first place.

[Daily Trust] The federal government on Monday said it will review the nation's travel and other protocols to curtail the entry or spread of the new Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus in the country.

[African Arguments] South Africa's openness helps the world's pandemic response. The Global North's rejection of WHO advice in imposing travel bans endangers it.

[Citizen] East Africa's top retail banks booked more than $125 million of bad loans in the nine months to September this year, as borrowers struggled to repay their loans following the expiry of a 12-month loan repayment relief programme for customer...

[Premium Times] The government will effectively be suspending one subsidy only to pay another, and there is no guarantee it will deliver on its promise.

[The Conversation Africa] In the last 20 years or so Africa has been an intermittent strategic interest for the US. Successive US presidents have attached contrasting levels of importance to the continent. This has been clear from their policies and ...

[ISS] The collapse of the country's once booming sugar industry has created a thriving illicit cross-border trade.

[The Conversation Africa] Wetlands are essential to the health of the planet. The plants that grow in and around the water store carbon, and wetland ecosystems support biodiversity and provide clean water and food.

[The Sentry] Payoffs Through "Piggy Bank" for Ex-President's Inner Circle Cleared Path for Multibillion-Dollar Mining