[allAfrica] Suspects who allegedly gang raped eight women in West Village Krugersdorp, along with 85 illegal miners, have appeared in the Krugersdorp Magistrate's Court, IOL reports. Among the suspects were several women while 20 others face charges ...

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[Premium Times] The troops' proactiveness helped avert an attack on the law school but they fell into ambush due to apparent limited knowledge of the terrain.

[UNAIDS] As AIDS2022 in Montreal comes to a close, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said:

[VOA] Somalia's prime minister has appointed the former deputy leader of the al-Shabab militant group, Mukhtar Robow, to the cabinet as minister for endowment and religious affairs.

[VOA] Geneva -- The U.N. refugee agency says it will be forced to cut aid programs for millions of internally displaced people and refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo without an immediate injection of money.

[VOA] Yaounde -- The streets of the Batibo district in western Cameroon were deserted Tuesday following three days of clashes between government forces and separatist fighters. Both sides say they inflicted significant losses on the other, while witn...

[Dabanga] Khartoum -- The mainstream faction of the Forces of Freedom and Change, the FFC- Central Council, has drawn up a draft of a new constitutional charter. After repeated criticism, they stressed their rejection of any agreement with the milita...

[UN News] The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that the Greater Horn of Africa is experiencing one of the worst hunger crises of the last 70 years.

[The Conversation Africa] One of the hardest decisions a government must make is who to support with the limited public funds at its disposal. In recent years the largest countries in sub-Saharan Africa have spent between 14% and 26% of combined annu...

[The Conversation Africa] Each year, Rwandans at home and in the diaspora remember those killed in the 1994 genocide. This is not a single-day event. Kwibuka ("to remember" in the local Kinyarwanda language) consists of 100 days of official commemora...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Sunripe Vertical Agro has flagged off its first batch of fresh avocados that will be exported to China.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Amateur footage showing Deputy President William Ruto in tears emerged on Tuesday as the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) prepared for the final stretch of his presidential campaign amid a rising tide of attacks from his forme...

[VOA] Addis Ababa -- U.S. and European Union special envoys for the Horn of Africa have called on Ethiopian authorities to restore basic services to the Tigray region in order to encourage peace talks with rebels. The envoys have just completed their...

[VOA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia now ranks with Eritrea as the biggest jailers of journalists in sub-Saharan Africa, a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists says.

[UN News] Three UN-appointed independent human rights experts returned from Ethiopia on Tuesday after working to negotiate access to areas important for investigations.

[Premium Times] Nigeria is the country with the fourth highest proportion of people who report feeling less safe than five years ago, languishing behind only Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Venezuela.

[DW] Somalia has appointed a former spokesman and deputy leader of the al-Shabab Islamist group as religious affairs minister, Prime Minister Hamya Abdi Barre said on Tuesday.

[Premium Times] Faced with little or no attention from the authorities after decades of devastating oil pollution, residents are replanting mangroves destroyed over the years.

[DW] Though official preliminary results are expected by the end of the week, Senegal's opposition leaders maintained that they had defeated the government coalition in Sunday's poll.

[ISS] Tech spending is up, but police data and capacity gaps must be resolved to leverage the benefits.

[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria has a long history of religious tensions against which the current spate of violence against Christians must be seen.

[Globetrotter] In Mwanza, Tanzania, Nairukoki Leyian-Naisinyai tells me that here, "Corporations come with papers from the government claiming that they have the right to our land." She points to the large corporations that have entered the lands of ...

[This is Africa] Kenya is struggling with its public debt, a heavy burden to the long-suffering citizens. Debt servicing currently sits at 65% of the total national budget. For every 100 shilling that the government has been collecting, 65 shillings ...

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles is aiming to increase its number of exclusively breastfed babies to 50 percent by the year 2025, said a health official at the launch of the Breastfeeding Week on Monday.

[New Times] Every year, the issue of public transport in Kigali clouds the media space, and over time, different measures have been suggested but it persists. One cannot ignore the fact that matters that are of public interest - like public transport...

[SAnews.gov.za] Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu says Banyana Banyana's victory at the maiden Women's Africa Cup of Nations will go a long way in positioning the country as an attractive sports tourism destination.

[Premium Times] The released captives pleaded with the Nigerian government to secure the release of those still being held.

[This Day] As Nigerians continue to lament the rising insecurity in the country and growing attacks by terrorist groups, President Muhammadu Buhari has said no nation can unilaterally tackle its security problems. Buhari made the remark yesterday at ...

[VOA] Nairobi -- One week before voting, an opinion poll on Kenya's presidential election shows former prime minister Raila Odinga in front by six percentage points over Deputy President William Ruto.