[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The South Africa-based energy and chemical giant says it no longer plans to invest in a planned gas pipeline from Mozambique to South Africa to avoid being locked-in to costly fossil fuel infrastructure in the longterm, accor...

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[African Arguments] Tax simplification would level the playing field between tax authorities and multinationals by relying on easily verifiable standards.

[DW] Former child soldiers are providing new information about the leader of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army. The evasive Kony has been on the run since 2005 when the ICC issued an arrest warrant for him.

[VOA] More than 80% of Somalia's new parliament members were sworn in Thursday, following repeated poll delays and an ongoing feud between the president and the prime minister.

[Daily Trust] On this day, eight years ago, Boko Haram insurgents invaded a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, at dead of night and abducted hundreds of teenage schoolgirls.

[Premium Times] According to a statement Thursday by the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the equipments are to cost Nigeria about $997 million.

[UN News] The UN has allocated $100 million to fight hunger in Africa and the Middle East as the spillover effects of the war in Ukraine threaten to push millions even closer to famine.

[This Day] It has been revealed from behind the scenes in the political circles that Nigerians of different ethnic extraction, political organisations and power brokers among major political parties are now eagerly waiting for former President Goodlu...

[Premium Times] The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, informed of steps being made to fulfil the implementation of 35% Affirmative Action for Women in public offices

[Premium Times] Mr Buhari said the deficiencies in the country's Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism regime (AML/CFT), make it imperative for the passage of both bill.

[SAnews.gov.za] National Disaster Management Centre head, Dr Mmaphaka Tau, has classified this week's KwaZulu-Natal floods as a provincial disaster.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma has assured that the ongoing fuel crisis will end within 72 hours even as she urged for calm among motorists across the country.

[RFI] Buutuo -- Jealian Didier fled his native Côte d'Ivoire after fighting broke out nearly 20 years ago. The 46-year-old father of five is among some 200 refugees finally returning from northern Liberia, where they've lived since 2003. Others, how...

[Daily News] PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has fired the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer of the Medical Store Department (MSD) just days after the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) found the store had held over 1...

[This Day] To a large extent, the gap between Nigerian artists and their foreign counterparts is continually bridged by technology. Unlike in the 1990s, various advancements in technology have led to the birth of platforms that have increased the rea...

[Nyasa Times] Officials from Lilongwe Water Board say the board is overwhelmed with applications for free water connections just days after government announced the initiative.

[Premium Times] Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, convicted for corruption, were pardoned on health and age grounds when they still have several years to complete their jail terms.

[UN News] COVID-19 cases in Africa have fallen for the past 16 weeks, and deaths have dropped during the last eight, marking the longest-running decline in infections on the continent since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WH...

[African Arguments] Once a small family affair, the roora is restyling itself for an age of reality TV and social media.

[The Conversation Africa] I first saw Nkosinathi Maphumulo aka Black Coffee perform at Amaros Night Club in Pretoria, South Africa during the late 2000s. Dressed in a casual T-shirt, no one would have guessed he was destined for global glory. Beneath...

[New Zimbabwe] Vice president Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry, has been caged one year after she was convicted of attempting to upgrade her customary marriage.

[New Era] President Hage Geingob yesterday reiterated the need to increase Covid-19 vaccination coverage to achieve herd immunity as that will instil confidence in the economy, specifically the tourism and hospitality sectors, which have been negativ...

[The Herald] Marry Mubaiwa has been fined $60,000 after she was convicted of lying that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga had agreed to solemnise their marriage at a time he was in hospital in India.

[Nyasa Times] Catholic church authorities have closed down a church in Blantyre after a release of what church officials say a disrespectful music video which was shot from the church.

[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has vowed to viciously crush opposition Zimbabwe African People Union's (Zapu) intended demonstration at President Mnangagwa's Munhumutapa offices Friday.

[New Zimbabwe] Parents and guardians, coalescing under the Our Zimbabwe campaign, have petitioned parliament to initiate proceedings to scrap the new curriculum, arguing it is too expensive and ill conceived.

[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development has challenged government to ensure the huge economic growth it reported recently corresponds with the welfare of the country's citizens.

[New Zimbabwe] THE popular growth point Murambinda - located in Buhera district - has been proclaimed a town.

[Daily Trust] Twenty-nine persons, among them a bride-to-be, have died in a boat mishap that occurred on Wednesday in Shagari River at Gidan Magana in Shagari LGA of Sokoto State.