[allAfrica] As of April 1, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  4,215,600 while over 6,533,459 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Johannesburg/Tulsa -- As internet use surges on the continent, projects are working to help Africans find information online in their mother tongues

[IPS] Madaba/Mafinga, Tanzania -- Small agricultural loans, disbursed through mobile phones and targeting specific farming activities at different phases of production, have more than doubled food productivity among thousands of smallholder farmers i...

[Premium Times] The Nigerian government has since 2016 been making repeated promises to end the importation of dirty fuels.

[VOA] Juba , South Sudan -- A string of deadly road attacks in South Sudan, including one on a governor's convoy returning from the scene of an earlier attack, have left nearly 30 people dead.

[VOA] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Authorities in Tanzania took more than a week to confirm that 45 people died in a stampede March 21 at the memorial for late president John Magufuli.

[VOA] Paris -- Judges at International Criminal Court in The Hague have upheld the acquittal of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and youth minister Charles Ble Goude, paving the way for both to return home.

[VOA] Gaborone -- Authorities in Botswana say the elephant hunting season will go ahead as planned, despite a world conservation body listing African elephants as endangered. Botswana's government argues its elephant population - the world's largest ...

[VOA] KaMatsamo. South Africa -- It is hard to see COVID-19 here, in the small village of KaMatsamo. Goats pick their way through a path that runs from the highway, the main thoroughfare in this South African town of some 23,000 people.

[VOA] Johannesburg -- The coronavirus vaccine is coming, with South Africa expecting to conclude negotiations in upcoming weeks to vaccinate 41 million people, and the next stage of vaccinations to begin in May, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced la...

[UN News] UN-appointed independent rights experts on Wednesday raised concerns over the recruitment and use of private military and foreign security contractors by the Government of the Central African Republic, and their apparent close contacts with...

[Nation] Scientists have discovered the most mutated variant of the Covid-19 virus in Tanzania, in what could portend trouble for Kenya, given these new variants are highly transmissible, and suspected to be resistant to some of the immune fighters.

[Nation] The long-time president of Djibouti, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, has launched his re-election campaign in the run-up to national elections on 9 April.

[Daily Maverick] The South African private military company credited with saving many lives during a major attack by Islamic State-linked insurgents in the northern Mozambican town of Palma over the last week seems to be on its way out. The Dyck Advi...

[This Day] The United States has accusesd Nigeria of significant human rights abuses in its latest "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2020", released Wednesday by the Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour.

[Daily Trust] The Nigerian Protein Deficiency Report, 2020 has revealed that the level of protein deficiency in the country remains high and worrisome.

[DW] Niger's new president faces daunting tasks even before taking office. Terror attacks and massive opposition demonstrations are a sign that things are not going to get any easier.

[The Conversation Africa] In an article published in 1994 titled The Coming Anarchy, the American journalist Robert Kaplan predicted an impending Armageddon for West Africa due to what he considered its notoriety for breeding crime, coups and tyranni...

[African Arguments] This was meant to be an interview. A few weeks ago, I arranged to talk with Joana Mamombe, Zimbabwe's youngest Member of Parliament, about her recent experiences of state violence. Mamombe is only 27 years old and her parliamentar...

[African Arguments] In recent interviews with detained ADF rebels, some hadn't even heard of ISIS.

[Premium Times] The doctors threatened to commence an 'indefinite strike' on Thursday if the Nigerian government fails to meet their demands.

[Premium Times] Presidential aide Garba Shehu says the 99.1FM radio station "cannot be said to be airing fake news."

[Premium Times] The celebrated author is the first Booker Prize nominee for a work originally written in an indigenous African language.

[East African] Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan Wednesday appointing veteran diplomat Liberata Mulamula as the new Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, replacing Professor Palamagamba Kabudi.

[DW] President Paul Biya's son is making a name for himself on Cameroon's political scene. Some observers think he is being groomed to take over the job of his 88-year-old father.

[The Conversation Africa] Connor Bamford, Queen's University Belfast

[ISS] Last week the world witnessed a dramatic attack on the Mozambican town of Palma in the country's northern Cabo Delgado province. The death toll is still unknown. Many foreigners were also attacked, which has led to heightened international atte...

[Nation] Kiambaa MP Paul Koinange is dead.

[SAnews.gov.za] As the Political Party Funding Act comes into effect today, the Electoral Commission says it is all systems go.

[East African] Terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria [ISIS], or Daesh, may be expanding its tentacles to the shores of eastern Africa, two years after it was declared defeated in its original territory.