[allAfrica] As of December 2, 2021, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,666,255 while over 149,172,177 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[RFI] Burkina Faso's government says it has killed dozens of "terrorists" and arrested hundreds of suspects in joint operations along its borders with neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Togo.

[DW] Uganda has deployed soldiers into the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of a joint operation with the Congolese military. The troop movement followed bombardments against posts held by the Islamist ADF.

[East African] Prominent former world leaders, commonly known as the 'Elders', want African leaders to take urgent leading role to help end the Ethiopian conflict.

[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced by-elections will be held in March next year.

[Ghanaian Times] The drama surrounding the approval or otherwise of the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of Government took a new turn yesterday as Parliament descended into chaos, forcing the First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu, to susp...

[New Zimbabwe] The government has urged Zimbabweans living in neighbouring South Africa to adhere to that country's administration's decisions of not extending their Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) beyond 2022.

[New Dawn] Liberia: The Ministry of Health is expected to conduct a mass vaccination exercise in six counties here.

[New Times] Persons with disabilities have expressed their concerns and challenges that limit them to accessing financial services like loans, effective customer care and information on financial products among others.

[New Times] As football continues to grow all over the world with clubs across the globe hunting for the next biggest star to groom, foreign teams are extending their tentacles to the African continent to form partnerships with local academies.

[Nyasa Times] The Ministry of Trade has announced that it has started issuing Maize Export Licences with immediate effect.

[The Conversation Africa] There have been tremendous gains towards reaching the United Nations 90-90-90 targets to end HIV as a public health threat. The aim was that, by 2020, 90% of people with HIV would know their status, 90% of those would be on ...

[East African] Somali President Mohamed Farmaajo has visited strong ally Qatar even as the election programme back home faces another possibility of stalling.

[World Bank] World Bank Urges a More Gender Inclusive Recovery with Women at the Center

[Radio Dabanga] Washington -- Former senior US diplomat Susan D. Page, the former State Department Senior Advisor on Sudan, Prof Charlie Snyder, the former USAID Senior Policy Advisor on Sudan and South Sudan, Dr Brian D'Silva, and Amir Idris, profes...

[VOA] United Nations -- U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that southern African nations that first detected the omicron COVID-19 variant are being collectively punished with travel restrictions, and he urged "common sense" to res...

[VOA] Washington -- Armed with placards that read "Stop BBC," "Stop CNN" and "Stop FAKE news on Ethiopia," supporters of Ethiopia's government are protesting in cities across the world.

[VOA] Johannesburg -- Vaccine-short Africa is hopeful of getting more COVID-19 doses, as a South African pharmaceutical firm is close to being the first in Africa to distribute them for sale across the continent.

[UN News] Agreement by countries to launch a process to develop a new global accord on pandemic prevention and response is cause for hope, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in Geneva.

[UN News] Concluding a four-day to visit Burkina Faso, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday that the country faces "a multitude of challenges with severe impacts on a wide range of human rights of its people".

[East African] Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused the United Kingdom of interfering in his country's internal affairs after London voiced concern over human rights violations and persecution of government critics in the southern Africa...

[UN News] For two decades, the African Union (AU) has been "a gold standard of regional co-operation", Secretary-General António Guterres told the fifth UN-AU Annual Conference on Wednesday in New York.

[Nation] The Sudanese military has again accused Ethiopian forces of threatening its soldiers and civilians near a tense disputed border section as a decades-long tiff between them threatens to escalate.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Durban -- Widespread poverty, lack of irrigation, deforestation and COVID-19 restrictions are having a bigger effect than global warming, scientists say

[DW] The Ethiopian prime minister's office announced recent territorial gains by the army. Government forces said they had recaptured the UNESCO World Heritage site Lalibela.

[DW] The international community should focus more on Africa's children's situation, says the 2021 Right Livelihood Laureate from Cameroon. Wandou also warns the Boko Haram crisis' impact in the region has been underreported.

[African Arguments] It is not news that Facebook - now Meta - can and does spread disinformation and hate speech, exacerbating division, discord and violence, and that extreme content is not a glitch, but rather integral to its algorithm-driven engag...

[Nigeria Health Watch] On the 1st of December every year, the world commemorates World AIDS Day, a day set aside to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS pandemic, sharing progress and successes as well as identifying challenges in tackling the virus gl...

[Daily Trust] President Muhammadu Buhari made reference to COVID-19 during his meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa, his South African counterpart, on Wednesday.

[Daily Trust] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed three cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in Nigeria.