[allAfrica] As of January 28, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  10,669,963 while over  210,635,964 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] A Harm Reduction Exchange webinar was held online on January 20th, 2022. In collaboration with Integra Africa (Brand and Strategy consulting company) and Philip Morris International.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- A bilateral meeting between Home Affairs Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has given new focus to the management of refugees and asylum seekers in the country. The sessi...

[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- China intends to establish a base at Bata, a port on the Atlantic coast of Equatorial Guinea, the Wall Street Journal reported in December, citing classified American intelligence reports and unnamed U.S. officials.

[Premium Times] The Borno government said that though the international laws regulating the operations of the UN system exempt them from paying tax as entities, it does not apply to their workers.

[The Herald] INVICTUS Energy, the Australian firm searching for oil and gas in Muzarabani, says it has started several initiatives that are already positively impacting the local communities and may transform the area entirely in the future.

[DW] The West African country's new military leader has said constitutional order will return "when the conditions are right." The junta has also pledged to bring security to Burkina Faso.

[New Times] The government has relaxed measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic by allowing movement of people across the country to go on until midnight from 10pm.

[VOA] Isiolo, Kenya -- Kenya's nomadic herders are among those suffering the most from recurring drought that kills the livestock on which they depend. To make them less dependent on rain, aid programs are teaching herders how to farm fish and keep b...

[VOA] Washington -- Reports that Russia is connected to this week's coup in Burkina Faso have made their way to the Pentagon, though U.S. defense officials decline to say whether the allegations have merit.

[UN News] "Needs are growing faster than generosity" in the central Sahel, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs told a group of senior officials on Thursday, meeting to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation across the vast Afri...

[UN News] Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions - "hunger hotspots", where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access, are putting millions of lives at risk, UN agencies hig...

[UN News] UN teams are on the ground in Mozambique assisting thousands of people affected by Tropical Storm Ana, which made landfall in central and northern regions of the country earlier this week.

[RFI] It's quite rare for one of the central tenets of Christian evangelism to entwine with the Africa Cup of Nations. But at the end of nearly three hours of toil, sweat and matyrdom, they fuse: Jesus saves.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- About three million people are facing hunger in Kenya, according to the 2021 Global Hunger Index, a peer-reviewed annual report, jointly published by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe.

[DW] Danish troops are set to leave Mali after the military government made several calls for their "immediate withdrawal." It marks a further deterioration in Mali's relationship with the EU.

[DW] Ethiopia's Tigray conflict erupted in November 2020 and later spread to neighboring regions. Yet, covering the war is a huge challenge, with press freedom severely constrained and journalists facing intense pressure.

[Leadership] Over 50,700 Nigerians have signed a petition calling for an end to International English Language Tests (IELTS).

[ISS] The country could be on the cusp of major political change - but the ANC is likely to remain dominant.

[Namibian] Namibia's presidential jet aircraft was used to fly former Cabinet members Bernhard Esau and Sacky Shanghala to Angola for the signing of an agreement to set up a fisheries scheme that ended up turning into the Fishrot fraud and corruption...

[Premium Times] The authorities said flight arrivals can resume from countries like Botswana, Congo Republic, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Namibia.

[New Era] The Nama and Ovaherero representatives yesterday petitioned Germany's new foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, calling her to restart what they termed as "failed German-Namibia intergovernmental negotiations on the genocide of their ancestor...

[The Herald] A bridge was swept away while a number of houses collapsed and roads damaged mainly in Manicaland due to heavy rains caused by the overland Tropical Depression Ana.

[New Zimbabwe] A Fastjet official has confirmed that one of its planes was Wednesday morning forced to make an emergency u-turn to Harare after failing to land at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo due to power cuts.

[New Era] A substantial number of legal practitioners have advised their clients not to approach the courts due to the high legal costs, despite having trust in the country's judicial system.

[Namibian] FORMER United and junior national team netball star Enrica Farmer (formerly De Klerk) was born at Keetmanshoop and impressed while playing both as goal attacker and shooter for club and country.

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[The Herald] The net worth of Zimbabwe's telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, who has recently been appointed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation board, has surged 125 percent to US$2.7 billion (R41.3 billion), Forbes said in a new report on Africa'...