[allAfrica] As of February 3, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 3,595,072 . Reported deaths in Africa reached 92,364 and  3,097,442 people have recovered. South Africa has the most reported cases - 1,458,958 - and  44,94...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of February 3, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 3,597,149 .

[Vanguard] Kano -- Kano state government has shut down UMC Hospital in the state capital to check the excesses of its management for allowing the admission of severe cases of COVID-19 instead of referring them to designated isolation centres in the s...

[The Herald] MDC Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri yesterday appeared in court on allegations of insulting police officers in central Harare.

[Daily Trust] Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF), Kayode Fayemi has disclosed that Nigeria was planning to procure about 80 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in 2021, to cover 40% of the population, while another 60...

[UN News] The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has warned against potential crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following a spike in attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) armed group, in two provinces in the ea...

[RFI] A group of villagers in southern Chad, who claim a number of accidents by British mining giant Glencore poisoned their drinking water, harming people and destroying farmland, are to confront company representatives in mediation, after the UK go...

[New Times] The cabinet on Tuesday, February 2, extended the lockdown in Kigali until next week, Monday, February 8, a move that aims to further contain the spread of the pandemic.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Cairo -- After FGM, the girl was taken to hospital with severe bleeding

[DW] Months after Belgium's Black Lives Matter protests, the country's reckoning with its past has come under scrutiny. But some Belgian activists feel that tackling race and colonialism-related issues needs a bigger push.

[The Conversation Africa] It can be tough when you are a former president in a democracy you have attempted to subvert, especially when that democracy comes back to bite you. Former South African president Jacob Zuma is finding this out the hard way.

[The Conversation Africa] Vaccination efforts across the globe encourage hope of an imminent end to the COVID-19 health crisis. But the food security crisis that the pandemic has deepened cannot be alleviated quickly and will require lasting solution...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -- Out-of-school children are particularly at risk of human trafficking during the coronavirus pandemic, U.N. says

[African Arguments] Almost a year after the World Health Organisation (WHO) told the South African government that the bodies of those who had died of Covid-19 posed little threat of infection to the living, the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) h...

[DW] Somalia has opened urgent talks with regional authorities to avoid a constitutional crisis. The Horn of Africa nation looks certain to miss a February 8 deadline to elect a new president.

[SAnews.gov.za] The South African government will nominate the Cuban Medical Brigade for the Nobel Peace Prize following its assistance in the fight against the spread of COVID-19.

[ISS] Having been declared the winner of a contested election in December 2018, President Félix Tshisekedi's Cap pour le Changement (CACH) sealed a governing alliance with his powerful predecessor, Joseph Kabila's Front commun pour le Congo (FCC). T...

[Africa In Fact] The Central African Republic will struggle to emerge out of the cycle of violence until there is serious international commitment to end it.

[East African] Burundi opposition leader Agathon Rwasa has expressed scepticism of President Evariste Ndayishimiye's call for political tolerance by ruling party members.

[New Zimbabwe] The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has urged relevant stakeholders to assist people living in Chimanimani who were recently affected by Cyclone Eloise.

[New Zimbabwe] The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is investigating Chinese mining company, Fools Investment Mine in Hope Fountain and other mines owned by the Asian nationals for alleged ill-treatment of their Zimbabwean employee...

[The Herald] Chitungwiza-based land developer Fredrick Mabamba is expected to appear in court this morning over allegations of illegally parcelling more than 2 000 residential stands in Chitungwiza during the time he was deputy mayor for the town.

[New Zimbabwe] Defiant MDC Alliance legislator Joanna Mamombe Tuesday insisted not any amount of arrests on her by the police would break her resolve to fight for democracy in the country.

[The Herald] In a major boost to the country's fight against Covid-19, Zimbabwe will soon take delivery of vaccines against the virus from China.

[New Zimbabwe] Police in Masvingo Tuesday arrested and detained two journalists working for a local independent newspaper for taking pictures of an ongoing police blitz on those loitering in the central business district.

[The Herald] Police have arrested eight people in Gwelutshena, Matabeleland North, for a variety of offences when they attacked villagers and destroyed property, and then attacked the police officers trying to arrest them.

[The Herald] Illegal miners have found their way from all over the country to areas like Penhalonga in Mutasa, Rusitu in Chimanimani, Nyazingwe in Nyanga north among many others to dig for gold

[The Herald] Beitbridge district Civil Protection Unit (CPU) has started mobilising resources to assist villagers from 51 homesteads whose houses were recently damaged by heavy rains.

[Premium Times] The speaker said the law was to further prohibit unlawful societies and cultism.

[New Zimbabwe] The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has given City of Harare a 10-day ultimatum to clear garbage at various illegal dumpsites in Mbare's residential and marketplaces or face sanctions.