[allAfrica] As of March 10, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 3,981,137 while 4,448,560 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[This Day] The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has received final approvals of its demutualisation plan from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) leading to the completion of the exchange's demutualisation...

[Nation] Somalia's former president Ali Mahdi Mohamed has died in Kenya's capital Nairobi aged 83, officials in Mogadishu and members of his family announced on Wednesday.

[Nation] Kenya is staring at massive losses in revenue following the ratification of the Economic Partnership Agreement with the United Kingdom.

[The Conversation Africa] A concise history of the beer industry in Namibia written by history scholar Tycho Van der Hoog begins with the pithy observation by American singer-songwriter Frank Zappa to the effect that every nation worth its salt needs...

[The Conversation Africa] Lampreys are an extremely bizarre order of fishes. Together with their cousins, the hagfish, they are the only living group of vertebrates branching from the family tree of animals before they had developed jaws. Vertebrates...

[State Department] The Department of State has designated the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISIS-DRC) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - Mozambique (ISIS-Mozambique) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations unde...

[The Conversation Africa] Being Chinese in Africa was the worst possible stigma for much of 2020.

[Africa In Fact] The ruling MPLA's culture of dominance ensures control

[ISS] At last month's African Union (AU) summit, members states' attention was focused on electing the new AU Commission leadership. While that was happening, Aya Chebbi's term as the AU's first Youth Envoy quietly came to an end. A successor hasn't ...

[GroundUp] A bystander was killed in Braamfontein on the third day of Wits student protests on Wednesday.

[Nation] Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under renewed pressure to account for a political activist who went missing six years ago, as western embassies slammed the country's "enduring culture of impunity".

[RFI] A number of countries have arrived on the scene in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, to help the government with rescue services three days after a blast at the barracks in the centre of town killed more than 100 and maimed 615. Human Rights Watch has u...

[Nation] Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga is undergoing further medical examination by a team of doctors after a successful check-up on Tuesday.

[Nation] As dawn broke on Monday, a boat set sail from Dunga ' harbour' in Kisumu for a 21-day voyage around Lake Victoria.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Cairo -- Under the new personal status law, a male guardian would sign the marriage certificate, rather than the bride

[Leadership] Organised labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) yesterday took their protest to the National Assembly to demand a halt to the plot by the lawmakers to decentralise the minimum wage structu...

[IPS] Stockholm / Rome -- On the morning of 22nd February a jeep from the World Food Programme (WFP), followed by another one with the Italian ambassador, Luca Anastasio, was driving along Route Nationale 2 passing by The Virunga National Park, an UN...

[DW] The political impasse over when and how the next Somalian election will be conducted, coupled with the increasing number of attacks from the Islamist terrorist group, al-Shabaab, has put Somalia on an unpredictable path.

[DW] The West African nation has been rocked by deadly protests in support of an opposition politician who's been accused of rape. Young people seem to have lost trust in the government and are demanding change, experts say.

[The Herald] Former Studio 263 actress Anne Nhira who acted as Vimbai Jari in the soap has died.

[IPS] Blantyre, Malawi -- After getting tired of searching for employment for seven years, Feston Zale from Chileka area in Malawi's Southern Region decided to venture into agribusiness.

[Premium Times] The shift makes the NSE the 57th exchange in the world to embrace such a transformation since Sweden's Stockholm Stock Exchange piloted the move in 1993.

[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria has started to vaccinate people after receiving its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines. Virologist and senior research fellow Dr Solomon Bakarey provides some insights on how the country should go about the rollout pla...

[Government of Mauritius] The Prime Minister, Mr Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, has announced, this evening, during a televised address to the nation, that a lockdown will be implemented as from 10 March 2021 at six am till 25 March 2021, following an incre...

[Premium Times] The National Assembly is considering a bill that would change the way minimum wage is negotiated.

[SAIIA] Cameroon is dealing with a deadly though insufficiently reported civil war in its two English-speaking (minority) regions of the North-West and South-West. Since 2017, Anglophone separatists have been fighting for a new "Republic of Ambazonia...

[Namibian] As from 1 April this year, all applications for a mining licence in Namibia must have 15% local owners, the Ministry of Mines and Energy announced last week.

[263Chat] Global Human rights movement Amnesty International-Zimbabwe has pleaded with the government of Zimbabwe to establish the whereabouts of journalist-cum-activist Itai Dzamara who disappeared on 9 March 2015.

[263Chat] Local human rights groups have called on government to take all necessary measures to guarantee the safe return of missing journalist-cum-human rights defender, Itai Dzamara who went missing six years ago and he has never been found to this...