[allAfrica] As of April 28, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  11,504,130 while over 283,241,683 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[VOA] Harare, Zimbabawe -- The United Nations Children's Fund and Zimbabwe have released a report saying nearly half the country's youth are not in school due to poverty exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The report says the percentage has more th...

[Dabanga] El Geneina / Kereinik -- Health facilities, markets, and other institutions remain closed despite a 'cautious calm' reported from El Geneina and Kereinik in West Darfur. At least 200 people, including children, have died in several days of ...

[VOA] Kombolcha, Ethiopia -- A British environmental group warns the war in Ethiopia's Tigray region is driving deforestation. It says blockades limiting fuel and aid to the region have forced Tigrayans to chop down trees, worsening food shortages in...

[VOA] Nairobi -- California-based Google wants to get a bigger share of Africa's growing online population, which is expected to top 800 million by 2030.

[VOA] Dakar, Senegal -- The Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (AVCA) says Africa attracted a record $7.4 billion in private capital in 2021, more than double the year before. But while the continent provides ample possibilities for investo...

[VOA] Johannesburg, South Africa -- Chinese loans to African governments plunged by more than three-quarters in the first year of the pandemic compared to the year before, researchers have found, with new loan commitments in 2020 at their lowest leve...

[VOA] Somalia's election process faced new delays Wednesday as the president and prime minister clashed publicly over election security procedures ahead of a planned parliamentary leadership vote in the capital.

[UN News] Keeping the peace has become more important but also more complex in a world of proliferating conflicts, that are becoming more "intertwined", the UN's policy chief told a high-level meeting of the General Assembly spotlighting financing fo...

[RFI] A group of some 550 Ethiopian United Nations peacekeepers working in Sudan have claimed asylum due to their Tigrayan background, an official working in the area of refugee response told Reuters newswire.

[New Times] Genocide suspect Jean-Paul Micomyiza, 49, finally arrived in Kigali, Rwanda early Wednesday, April 27, after being extradited by Sweden.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nairobi/Durban -- From South Africa to Kenya, Africa is fast losing healthy land - but solutions are emerging

[African Arguments] The Africa Union must recognise that the accreditation of an apartheid regime is incompatible with its values.

[ISS] Many communities already practise some form of transitional justice to help recover from over a decade of violence.

[Premium Times] The Senate said the major objective of the legislation is to discourage the rising spate of kidnapping and abduction for ransom - a menace now spreading across the country.

[Premium Times] Mr Gbadegesin, who was arrested on September 2, 2021, allegedly defrauded an American lady living in Kentucky, United States, of over $148,000.

[Daily Trust] More than 12,000 Nigerians have benefitted from the 2022 edition of the poverty alleviation programme of Abu Bakr Al-Sidiq Philanthropic Home of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, Saudi Arabia.

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- "Even if they shut down all the courts in Nigeria, they must not shut down the court of public opinion," said Agba Jalingo.

[RFI] Mali has reprimanded France for "spying" after the French military released a video of what it alleged were Russian mercenaries burying bodies at a mass grave.

[Shabelle] The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia HE Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has congratulated Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur (Madobe) on his election as Speaker of the House of the People of the Federal Republic of Somalia.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The government has assured of sufficient fuel stocks following concerns of a looming crisis as Kenyans prepare for the long weekend and holidays ahead.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The iconic 53-year-old, Hilton hotel Nairobi will shut its doors permanently on December 31 underlining the troubles of the hospitality industry amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

[Shabelle] The MPs of the Lower House unanimously voted to elect Sheikh Aden Madobe as the new speaker in an election held in Mogadishu on Wednesday night.

[Dabanga] New York / Geneva -- The UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, have independently called on the government of Sudan to take responsibility for the protection of civilians, a...

[Dabanga] Khartoum / Port Sudan -- Most of the remaining members of Sudan's suspended Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC)* who were detained earlier this year were released on bail on Tuesday following a ruling by the Judge of the Khartoum Criminal C...

[VOA] Johannesburg, South Africa -- Vagrants doze in doorways and the smell of burning trash fills the air on Commissioner Street, a rundown and dangerous section of inner-city Johannesburg. But look carefully and an observer might notice a few pagod...

[UN News] The UN published promising news in the global fight for gender equality and opportunity on Wednesday, showing that when it comes to mathematics, girls are now performing as strongly as boys in the classroom - although there are plenty of ba...

[VOA] Analysts are questioning the East African Community's capacity to equip a multinational military force formed to battle insurgencies in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

[TechCrunch] A few weeks ago, a law firm threatened to sue American social-media giant Meta and its main subcontractor for content moderation in Africa, Sama, over alleged unsafe and unfair work conditions at the latter's hub in Kenya.