[WRI] Here's a startling figure: 1.5 billion people will live in African cities by 2050, more than double the number today. African cities - including unplanned urban areas and informal settlements - are already facing staggering challenges: poverty,...

[CFR] As the insurgency in northern Mozambique continues to escalate, not only is the humanitarian crisis deepening, but the instability's ripple effects are being felt far beyond Mozambique's borders.

[New Zimbabwe] The Judicial Services Commission (JSC) has opposed an application by top lawyer and Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum boss Musa Kika, who is challenging the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term of office by President Emmerson Mn...

[Daily Maverick] Seven months after the assassination of Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) Lieutenant-Charl Kinnear, Nafiz Modack has been added as a second accused in the murder charge.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] The metical increased in value by 13% in a week, from $1 = MT 65.5 on 6 April to $1 = MT 56.8 on 14 April. Then it was kept at precisely that level for two weeks, It has now drifted back to $1 = MT 58.6.

[Mozambique News Reports And Clippings] Although the rhetoric remains press freedom, the government is putting increasing pressure on Mozambican media and journalists and restricting foreign press.

[JusticeInfo.net] In the United States, the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee voted on April 14, 2021, to recommend the creation of a commission to study the possibility of paying reparations to the descendants of enslaved people. Looking...

[Namibian] Namibia's biggest labour union has filed a lawsuit against the government, accusing it of sacrificing Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) employees as part of the government's N$3,7 billion bailout loan agreement with the International...

[Namibian] The United Nations fifth Sustainable Development Goals call for gender equality and empowering women and girls, however, little has been said on how this can be done and with the new norms, the proposed solutions could be outdated.

[RFI] The Africa-France summit, which was to be held in early July in Montpellier, southern France, has been pushed back to early October because travel constraints linked to the Covid-19 epidemic will be "insufficiently lifted this summer", the town...

[Nation] Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has taken oath of office for his sixth elected term, with Ugandans and East Africans expecting him to steady the political and development caravan.

[The Herald] Victoria Falls -- The government has ordered the Victoria Falls City Council to explain why it wants to review downwards its 2021 budget that had already been approved.

[The Herald] Parliamentarians have called on Government to repeal the Vagrancy Act as it criminalises poverty and discriminate against homeless people in contravention of the Constitution.

[AIM] Maputo -- The chairperson of the Mozambican Association of Road Transport Operators (Fematro), Castigo Nhamane, on Friday urged every stakeholder in the transport business in the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area to embrace the electronic ticket...

[AIM] Maputo -- Maputo 13 May (AIM) - The Mozambican government has guaranteed that it is carefully following the entire process of the withdrawal from the country of the Brazilian mining giant, Vale.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported that, for the second consecutive day this week, there had been no deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday guaranteed that the government has never rejected support granted by the international community to fight against terrorism.

[Nyasa Times] Refugees and asylum seekers residing at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Dowa are 'cooking up' sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) cases against fellow refugees to claim insecurity in Malawi.

[Daily Maverick] The grandson of the Italian immigrant who opened Venezia in Sea Point in 1953 has been making his grandfather's ice cream for family and friends. Now the rest of Cape Town might be getting a taste of it again too.

[Daily Maverick] As millions around the world try to cope with the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the questions and challenges facing present and future generations of workers are thrown into starker relief.

[Daily Maverick] Fed up with their team's patchy form this season, and a silverware drought of six years, about 100 Kaizer Chiefs supporters took to the streets of Johannesburg to voice their concerns.

[Daily Maverick] There has been a decline in 'previously stubborn' crimes such as assault, sexual offences, common assault and robbery for the fourth quarter of 2020/21, but murders continue to show an increase from previous quarters, the latest crim...

[Daily Maverick] One of the best ways to explore a neighbourhood is on foot. That usually means walking when you're on holiday. But what about running near your home? Local businessman Abdullahi Ali Hassan can vouch for this, too.

[Namibia Economist] The Dordabis community this week received sanitary pads from the Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology Emma Theofelus, to alleviate period poverty and improve menstrual hygiene for the girl-child in the commu...

[The Herald] Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Fredrick Shava has said his ministry will implement strategies that will get the country a positive image internationally by reaching out to everyone.

[The Herald] FOLLOWING the arrival of the remaining consignment of equipment that was donated by the International Judo Federation, the local judo motherbody looks set to get their schools development and decentralisation programme underway.

[The Herald] LOCAL golf clubs have said they are ready to host their first major tournament in more than a year when they host the Club Champion of Champions tomorrow and Sunday.

[The Herald] The Environmental Management Agency has slapped the Harare City Council with a $800 000 fine for failing to collect refuse regularly on designated points dotted in and around the Central Business District.

[The Herald] HARARE City Council intends to purchase new refuse trucks amid revelations that the city has abandoned efforts to recover 15 refuse compactors bought from a local supplier five years ago, but were never delivered.

[The Herald] WITH a week to go before the National Athletics Association of Zimbabwe Inter-provincial Championships, hosts Harare are stepping up their preparations on and off the field.