[allAfrica] As of July 3 confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 5,590,813 while over 35,056,552 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[DW] Very few vaccines have found their way into the arms of Africans as they struggle with a surge in COVID-19 infections. Several countries now want to start producing vaccines on the continent. Can they succeed?

[Ethiopian Herald] Historian and Novelist Jeff Pearce announced that Ethiopia has now turned its face towards fresh opportunities and diversifying its economy after saddled with a mind-boggling debt created by the TPLF terrorist organization and its ...

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The main actor behind the undue pressures exerted on Ethiopia from different quarters is Egypt which attempts to maintain its hegemony over Blue Nile, East African Policy Research Institute (EAPRI) Deputy Director-General Birhanu...

[VOA] Kampala -- Ugandans may find themselves in jail for two months if they are found breaking public health controls in a new COVID-19 law. Through July, acts such as praying in open spaces, not wearing masks, hawking, street vending and selling no...

[Nation] Most public health facilities, hotels and restaurants are reporting shortage of the free condoms in due to another tax row between donors and the government.

[Ethiopian Herald] The unilateral humanitarian ceasefire the government announced in Tigray State changes the longstanding culture of fighting till the last bullet and showcases its commitment to peace and stability in Ethiopia and the East African r...

[Government of Mauritius] A training on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) reporting, aimed at familiarising journalists and reporters with different writing techniques to ensure a fair, accurate, and inclusive reporting of LGBTQ ...

[Daily Maverick] The Constitutional Court judgment against former president Jacob Zuma, and the strengthening of key institutions such as the South African Revenue Service and the National Prosecuting Authority, showing early signals of success in th...

[Premium Times] "The Command did not fire a single live bullet at Ojota rally today."

[Daily Maverick] The ConCourt judgment is a definite demonstration that South Africa has not become a complete banana republic.

[Nation] Changamwe MP Omar Mwinyi has accused police of harassing residents and demanding money from them.

[Nation] Missing former Kenya Air Force Commander Mwenda Mbijiwe's mother has appealed for the international community's help in finding him.

[Nation] Simon Koech from South Rift and Central Rift's Jackline Chepkoech will lead Kenya's assault in men and women's 3,000m steeplechase during the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in August in Nairobi.

[Daily Trust] A teenage girl has been killed in Ojota, Lagos, where the police forcefully dispersed protesters on Saturday.

[Nation] Industrialist Naushad Noorali Merali was a gifted businessman whose contribution to the country's progress will be missed, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said.

[Nation] Kenya and peers at the UN Security Council have endorsed an African Union commission of inquiry into atrocities in Tigray even as the Ethiopian government began to count the cost of the war it began in November.

[ENA] Diplomats at the UN Security Council (UNSC) have reaffirmed their respect and commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ethiopia and commended the government for the unilateral ceasefire it declared over Tigray.

[Daily Maverick] In his latest attempt to thwart Lady Justice, former president Jacob Zuma has tried to portray himself as a pious man whose only vices have been that he may have accepted poor legal advice, is of ill health, and suffers financial con...

[Monitor] When the news of a new disease, Covid-19, broke out about two years ago, many of us thought it was just some dangerous disease that was the problem of far away countries --- like you don't lose sleep over news that a building collapsed in a...

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- The United States of America has explained the reasons for the country's military plane type C-17 Globemaster landing at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) in Dar es Es Salaam.

[Ethiopian Herald] Part One

[allAfrica] As of July 2 confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 5,547,605 while over 34,845,605 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[UN News] Senior UN officials appealed on Friday for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Tigray - and for an end to deadly attacks on aid workers - as the Security Council held its first open meeting on the conflict in the restive north...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Another sad day for Mzansi as veteran actor Mutodi Neshehe has died.

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's approach to its COVID-19 vaccine programme has been characterised by a large number of missteps. In aggregate it has left the country behind many others on the continent, and essentially left millions unvaccin...

[The Conversation Africa] It is difficult to imagine a bigger journalistic disaster than the recent decuplets story by Pretoria News, based in South Africa's capital city. But it may present an opportunity to think anew about what could be done to ad...

[East African] The eSwatini government on Friday defended a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters even as acting Prime Minister Themba Masuku denied reports of deaths from the brutal force.

[VOA] Geneva -- The U.N. Children's Fund is urging the international community to pay more attention to Niger, where more than 2 million people are malnourished and living in dire conditions.

[East African] Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio has reimposed a nationwide curfew as part of new measures aimed at curbing rising Covid-19 cases.