[allAfrica] Geneva -- Three months into the conflict in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region, the humanitarian response remains severely constrained, and the biggest problem facing those seeking to provide food aid is access into the countryside, the Un...

[Monitor] On December 30, 2020, Representative Jamie Raskin (D) Maryland lost his 25-year-old son to suicide.

[Vanguard] The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has directed Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) and Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) local financial institutions against having any transactions in crypto or facilitati...

[GroundUp] Makhanda -- Rubbish is piling up in illegal dumpsites in parts of Makhanda in the Eastern Cape.

[Zimbabwe Independent] At least 41 high-profile figures face imminent arrest over corruption allegations, including those sucked in a US$23 million scam at the embattled National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ).

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of February 5, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 3,629,085 .

[Vanguard] Beneficiaries of the Resettlement City Project of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), have commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the Commission for lifting their lives, through the i...

[Capital FM] Malindi -- Deputy President William Ruto has criticised Opposition leaders banking on Jubilee party endorsement for the 2022 presidential race.

[263Chat] Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) said IFFs have cost Zimbabwe over US$12 billion in last three decades ending in 2015, with corruption acting not only as a direct source, but a conduit facilitating other commercial forms of illicit...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Federal Police said that a recent report released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) on Afar-Issa land dispute which led to clashes in Afar and Somali regions neighboring woredas...

[Oxfam] The supply of safe and effective vaccines for all is being artificially rationed because of the protection of exclusive rights and monopolies of pharmaceutical corporations, the People's Vaccine Alliance said today.

[spotlight] An estimated 390 000 people became ill with tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa in 2018, according to the country's first-ever National TB Prevalence Survey released on Friday.

[Greenpeace] Our personal histories are often attached to historical moments of shock. From wildfires to acts of terror, we all remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news. For the people of Mauritius, August 6th, 2020 carrie...

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[Monitor] The MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) that were expected to be held in Uganda this month have been postponed.

[Nation] At the peak of its game, SportPesa made about Sh285,000 every minute from betting-hungry Kenyans.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- In a statement it issued on February 04, the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) said its efforts so far to help settle internal split within the leadership of the opposition Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) were t...

[Monitor] Opposition leader of National Unity Platform (NUP) party Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, alias Bobi Wine, has asked the European Union (EU) to cause an audit of the January 14 presidential elections which he says he won, but was robbed of his v...

[Nation] Uncomfortable with our presence, they take shade under thickets of foliage at the foot of Mt Kenya. One of them abruptly dashes in front of us in fright and sheepishly disappears into a canopy.

[Nation] Kenyan scientists are investigating a possible disease outbreak that is killing thousands of mangrove trees at the Coast.

[New Frame] Like racial abuse, the ingrained use of rape as sporting terminology is unacceptable and all those involved in sport need to stop condoning such language.

[New Frame] The musical icon believed a decolonised, feminist approach to African music is the only way to secure not only an accurate record of our past, but an open road to our future.

[Daily Maverick] Using the internet, sending emails and googling information are skills so innate to the digitally fluent that they don't realise they have them and don't know that most South Africans lack them. And those excluded from digital citize...

[New Era] Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula yesterday said his ministry has no power to authorise families to exhume bodies of their loved ones who have died due to Covid-19.

[Namibian] In the past three years, about 7 151 people have been arrested in Namibia over drug-related offences.

[Namibian] The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism recorded fewer incidents of wildlife poaching and maintained a high number of arrests for wildlife crime in 2020, minister Pohamba Shifeta says.

[Namibia Economist] During last year, human-wildlife conflict incidents were on a rise with a recorded total number of 813 livestock comprising 413 cattle, 12 donkeys, 234 goats and 154 sheep all killed by wild animals.

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[Zimbabwe Independent] Zimbabwe's milling companies have been hit by Covid-19 induced delays to wheat deliveries from the international markets, which have triggered a wave of price hikes on the commodity, according to the Grain Millers Association o...

[Zimbabwe Independent] Jolted into action by the tragic loss of four ministers, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has approved mass importation of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin to battle Covid-19.