[Malaria Consortium] This year's World Malaria Report reflects on gains made -- but calls for further action as other threats arise.

[Shabelle] Ankara, Turkey -- Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived in Ankara Monday night, leading a high-level delegation for the third round of talks mediated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to address escalating tensions with Ethiopia over a contentious agreement with Somaliland.

[The Conversation Africa] Kenya has been accused by various non-state and state actors of supporting extraordinary rendition, which refers to the secret transfer of people from one country to another without due process of law and against their will. The most recent case of extraordinary rendition was the removal of Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye in November 2024 from Kenya to a military jail in Uganda. Oscar Gakuo Mwangi, who studies regional security and governance, explains.

[allAfrica] The Constitutional Court ruled that former president Edgar Lungu could not run for re-election in 2026 - a year after Lungu announced his return to active political life.

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[allAfrica] Different parts of Africa are experiencing mpox outbreaks with multiple virus variants (clades), according to the latest WHO Situation Report:

[UN News] Brazil's first-ever Minister of Indigenous Peoples and an initiative promoting sustainable agriculture in Egypt are among the six recipients of the 2024 Champions of the Earth award, announced by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday.

[allAfrica] Illegal Miners' Demand For More Food, Fuel Supplies

[allAfrica] Atlanta was selected as the Feature Destination for FAME Week Africa 2025, marking a significant milestone in its cultural and creative landscape. The announcement was made in Cape Town during Atlanta's mayor, Andre Dickens' first visit to South Africa, cementing Atlanta's position at the forefront of U.S.-South Africa relations.

[RFI] Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said he is 'making progress' in a mediation mission with junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, after the trio announced their departure from regional bloc Ecowas.

[New Zimbabwe] Tinotenda*'s childhood in Shamva, a mining town in north-eastern Zimbabwe, was normal - that is, full of promise and wild dreams.

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[spotlight] Ukwanda, the isiXhosa word for «grow,» encapsulates the mission of Stellenbosch University's Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health: nurturing healthcare in rural communities. At the centre's annual community partnership event in Worcester, Spotlight discovered how future healthcare professionals are stepping up to address the unique challenges of rural populations.

[ISS] How will Donald Trump's second-term policies affect US relations with the continent?

[RFI] When former president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the Harvard University-trained leader, ascended to power in Liberia in 2005, her compatriots celebrated her intention to consign the country's poor educational standards to history.

[allAfrica] The most effective public health outcomes are often driven by shared factors across countries

[allAfrica] Vaccines can prevent the disease, but hundreds of thousands, mostly children, die every year

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[Premium Times] Ghana's presidential election was conducted nationwide on Saturday.

[World Bank] Banjul -- The World Bank today approved a $47.7 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) for The Public Administration Modernization for Citizen Centric Service Delivery (PAMP). The five-year PAMP Program-for-Results (PforR) is the first of its kind for The Gambia.

[Premium Times] Many polling units are relying on streetlights to continue with the counting

[Daily Trust] Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has expressed optimism about his chances of winning the presidential election.Ghanaians went to polls on Saturday with frontrunners Bawumia and opposition NDC party, ex-president John Mahama, facing off in a tight race for the country's top post.

[Premium Times] Over 18.7 million Ghanaians are eligible to vote in Saturday's election.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba- The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has reported cases of forced conscription and arbitrary detentions in Oromia Regional State, accusing regional authorities of engaging in unlawful practices, including extortion targeting civilians, with victims as young as 11.

[Premium Times] As Ghanaians head to the polls to elect the head of the Cocoa-rich West African country on Saturday, the state of the economy rings across as the core determinant of who emerges as president.

[allAfrica] Monrovia -- Africa continues to experience an increase in Mpox cases with hundreds of new infections confirmed in the past week, the Africa Centres for Disease Control warned in its latest update. The Africa CDC said more than 20 countries in the region have reported cases since January, with the Democratic Republic of Congo remaining the most affected by the disease.

[allAfrica] Johannesburg -- Venessa Chen - a research program coordinator at the Program for Implementation Equity Research within the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights - shared her research findings on The impact of the Le Kip Kip Social Influence Campaign on PrEP knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions among women in South Africa - at the 5th HIV Research for Prevention Conference (#HIVR4P2024) in Lima, Peru. The conference served as a global stage for some of the most innovative approaches to combating

[allAfrica] It is estimated that one out of eight women and girls will experience sexual violence before the age of 18 as a result of gender-based violence.

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[allAfrica] Human rights activists, in collaboration with families and supported by Action Aid and the Red Cross, launched a fundraiser to aid thousands of artisanal miners trapped underground in dire conditions in Stilfontein, North West Province.

[Nile Post] The Church of Uganda today held a dialogue meeting to discuss the proposed Marriage Bill 2024, recently tabled before the Parliament of Uganda by Sarah Achieng Opendi, Woman Member of Parliament for Tororo District.

[ISS] Amid growing concerns, Kenya needs evidence-based regulations to balance public health and economic interests.

[Dabanga] Juba -- Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, president of Sudan's Sovereignty Council and commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), arrived in Juba, capital of South Sudan, yesterday, to discuss «critical issues regarding the relations between the two countries».

[RFI] French nuclear group Orano has announced that authorities in Niger have taken «operational control» of its uranium mining unit, in an escalating conflict between the company and the country's ruling junta.

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