[allAfrica] Welcome to allAfrica's Silencing The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. I am Mantsadi Sepheka from allAfrica and today our focus is Ethiopia.Fisseha Tekle is a researcher for Amnesty International and Zelalem Te...

[DW] A new president and parliament is being elected in Zambia under difficult circumstances. The economy is crumbling and human rights are being violated in a former model democracy in Africa.

[Nation] The teaching fraternity is staring at a major split following the emergence of yet another splinter union.

[New Zimbabwe] THE Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has called upon the government to enact a child protection law which outlaws child marriage and child pledging.

[New Zimbabwe] THERE are fears that growing discontentment in South Africa over the controversial election of ANC's Jolidee Matongo, who is originally a Zimbabwean, as Executive Mayor of Johannesburg, could degenerate into xenophobic attacks.

[VOA] Washington -- Amnesty International says Ethiopian government forces, Amhara region's militia group and Eritrean forces have been systematically raping and abusing hundreds of women and girls in the conflict in the country's northern Tigray reg...

[New Zimbabwe] GOVERNMENT has approved the reopening of churches but only for fully vaccinated congregants.

[GroundUp] The health department's official Covid death toll for 2020 was 28,500. But this is less than half the actual Covid death toll for last year, Medical Research Council (MRC) and University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers explain in an article...

[Vanguard] Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, of Nigeria Limited, yesterday, told the Federal High Court in Abuja that it would pay about N45 billion judgement debt awarded against it over oil spillages that occurred in 1970, which affected s...

[The Conversation Africa] Rising levels of vehicle traffic, industrial activity and urban sprawl are contributing to rising levels of air pollution across the global South. This is particularly the case in cities where urbanisation is progressing fas...

[VOA] Sudan's civilian Cabinet has resolved to turn former President Omar al-Bashir and other ex-officials over to the International Criminal Court to face multiple charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a statement...

[The Conversation Africa] Economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic depends on sustained investment in health care and social services. But while rich countries like the U.S. can borrow and spend relatively easily, low-income nations face a major ...

[Daily News] The government has banned a Swahili tabloid Uhuru for 14 days for allegedly publishing false information about President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The latest report of Amnesty International is based on a flawed methodology and relies heavily on interviews conducted in refugee camps in the Sudan and remote interviews facilitated by 'community workers', according to Ministry ...

[IFRC] Nairobi/Geneva -- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned that Somalia is on the cusp of a humanitarian catastrophe. One in 4 people face high levels of acute food insecurity and more than 800,000...

[Agenzia Fides] N'Djamena -- In the run-up to the presidential and parliamentary elections, the interim president of Chad calls on the rebel groups to participate in an "inclusive national dialogue". It is a new path that the Chairman of the Military...

[Nation] A High Court in South Sudan court has slapped a prominent but controversial social media personality with a six-month jail sentence and hefty thousand-dollar fine.

[Premium Times] "Cars will pay N200, SUVs and Jeeps will pay N300, private buses will pay N300, commercial buses will pay N150, luxury buses and trucks will pay N500," an official says.

[Nation] The Ethiopian government on Wednesday dismissed a fresh report by Amnesty international which details how Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers are systemically committing large-scale rape in the country's northern Tigray region.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Durban -- As they prepare to go to the polls, Zambians say it feels like they are surfing the net "using some Stone Age device"

[Africa Renewal] 'Our goal is speedy vaccination of 800 million Africans' - --Benedict Okey Oramah, President of Afreximbank and Chairman, Board of Trustees of the African Union COVID-19 Response Fund.

[The Conversation Africa] In public health, an important goal of vaccination and immunisation is to reach population or herd immunity. This is why the term comes up often in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. And it helps to be clear about what it me...

[The Conversation Africa] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - a body of the UN tasked with providing scientific information on climate change - has released a major new report, pulling together evidence from a wide range of current...

[ISS] The country's gold profits are filling the pockets of crooked companies and criminals instead of benefiting its population.

[Vanguard] Experts at the ongoing series of workshops organised by the United Nations Country Team in Nigeria as part of the Common Country Analysis (CCA) for Nigeria have said that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic had exacerbated the unemployment...

[Premium Times] Nigeria suspended Twitter in the country in June after the social media platform deleted a controversial tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari.

[Premium Times] With debt exposure of $11.7 billion, Nigeria ranked fifth among the top 10 countries with the highest debt risk exposure.

[HRW] Bamako -- Over 420 Civilians Killed During Attacks, Massacres in 2021

[CAJ News] Lusaka, Zambia -- THE United States has threatened to impose sanctions on individuals compromising the holding of credible elections in Zambia.

[Nation] The fight against HIV is set to receive a major boost if the monthly pill, whose trials Kenyan women will participate in, is proven effective.