[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of June 7, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 4,919,397 while over 24,569,665 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[DW] Colonel Assimi Goita has become the new interim president of Mali. The young army officer has instigated two military power grabs in the impoverished country, provoking international concern.

[Nation] Key agencies and departments under the Ministry of Trade and Industrialisation are staring at a major cash crunch in the coming financial year as budget estimates show that the docket will get only a third of its resource needs.

[263Chat] The government has rejected Johnson and Johnson vaccines from the African Union citing lack of recommended cold chain capacity.

[AIM] Maputo -- The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), citing the Mozambican border authorities, says that in May Tanzanian forcibly expelled almost 3,800 Mozambicans who were seeking refuge from terrorist attacks against Palma dist...

[HRW] Release Unjustly Jailed Critics, Human Rights Defenders

[State Department] The United States is deeply concerned by the continued violence in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. We continue to call for both the Cameroonian government and separatist armed groups to end the violence and engage in a dialogue...

[UN News] The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and partners are working to restore water supply to roughly 200,000 people, including some 100,000 children, affected by the volcanic eruption last month in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Con...

[UN News] Attacks by armed groups including Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province pose grave threats to Central Africa's fragile stability, the Secretary-General's Special Representative told the Security Council on Monday, while spotligh...

[DW] The men were abducted near the country's border with Mali and Burkina Faso, a hotbed for Islamists. China, which mines uranium, gold and oil in the country, has expanded its operations across Africa.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Barcelona -- As developing countries grapple with more extreme weather and the pandemic, rich nations face growing calls to deliver on promises of climate finance and vaccine support

[IPS] Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- On the night of Friday 4th June, a group of unidentified armed men stormed the village of Solhan in the north of Burkina Faso, shooting indiscriminately, looting the market and burning homes. A report by RFI, the Fr...

[ISS] AfCFTA's biggest challenge now may be too little trade, but down the line it could be uneven development.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Kuala Lumpur -- The pandemic's economic impact left more than 25 million people unable to pay for power in 2020, mainly in Africa, threatening progress towards access for all

[Daily Trust] Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, on Monday, commissioned the restructured Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, where 276 students were abducted by insurgents in 2014.

[DW] The leader of the latest military coup has named a new prime minister. Choguel Maiga, a Malian political veteran, was a key player in the protest movement against deposed president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in 2020.

[Premium Times] "We are not saying that Twitter is threatening the country or any such thing; why we have taken this measure is to stop them from being used as platforms for destabilisation..."

[Premium Times] Although they have been on the street for most part of their lives, these Nigerian children are desirous of acquiring education and a better life.

[RFI] The UN's humanitarian chief has warned that some 90 percent of people in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia are in desperate need of food aid, with hundreds of thousands living in 'famine conditions'. And yet members of the UN Security Coun...

[Nation] United Nations HIV/Aids agency has called for urgent action to end gender-based violence (GBV) which exacerbates women's vulnerability to HIV.

[Nation] Local leaders and bee farmers in Baringo County have opposed the proposed Livestock Bill 2021 that seeks to outlaw keeping bees for commercial purposes.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Government now says significant progress has been made in the construction of a designated one lane of the proposed Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) on the Thika Superhighway.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said that Ethiopia is facing challenges from traitors from within as well as outsiders. At an inaugural ceremony of the Tana Beles Sugar factory on Sunday, the PM said 'two enemies of the coun...

[Nation] The children of Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe have gone to court seeking to block the exhumation of his remains from a grave in his rural village of Kutama following a recent controversial ruling by a traditional court.

[spotlight] In February the University of Cape Town announced that a group of its researchers is expected to start a Phase I clinical trial of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced by the US company ImmunityBio. The experimental vaccine differs f...

[SAnews.gov.za] The National Assembly adopted the Special Appropriation Bill and Appropriation Bill during its hybrid plenary sitting on Friday.

[This Day] The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militant group said in an audio recording heard by Reuters yesterday that Abubakar Shekau, leader of rival Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram, was dead.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Mzansi has woken up to news of the passing of award-winning actress Sharlene Surtie-Richards, who has died at the age of 66.

[New Times] Rwandans have been called on to respect national environmental laws and regulations and to adopt practices that allow ecosystems to perform their functions to sustain human life.

[New Zimbabwe] ZANU PF councillor for Mberengwa's Ward 22 in Chivandovo village, Garisikai Moyo is building a clinic for the people in his area who often travel some 20 kilometres to access basic health services at the nearest clinic.