[allAfrica] South African playwright, novelist, director, and actor Athol Fugard has passed away, leaving behind a profound artistic legacy.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto has hit out at his critics over his donations to churches.
[Daily Maverick] Athol Fugard died in Stellenbosch on Sunday. He was 92 years old. Fugard was internationally recognised as one of the icons of English theatre in South Africa.
[allAfrica] Nairobi -- In the west of Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, where I come from, a tuberculosis outbreak is no different from one that takes place anywhere else in the world. A few dozen people get sick, health workers attempt to locate and test everyone with a bad cough and other symptoms. A concerted effort is made to make sure that patients take their medications for the entire duration of treatment, at least six months, to help stem the creation of drug-resistant infections.
[RFI] Two of the five French army bases in Senegal were officially handed over to the local authorities on Friday. It's the first step towards a complete withdrawal of French military presence in the country.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia --
[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Ethiopian warplanes launched precision airstrikes on Friday against Al-Shabaab bases in Somalia's Middle Shabelle region, Somali Defense Minister Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur said, marking a fresh offensive in the battle against the Al-Qaeda-linked militants.
[allAfrica] Kigali, Rwanda -- Approximately five billion people in low-resource areas lack access to safe surgical services, risking catastrophic health expenses, with an estimated need for 143 million additional surgeries, particularly in resource-constrained countries that house two-thirds of the global population, according to an Operation Smile study titled Breaking the Glass Ceiling: A Multiregional Study of Mentorship and Leadership in All-Women Surgical Teams.
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo and several civil society, religious, and opposition leaders signed a «compromise agreement» on Wednesday, March 5, for an «inclusive national dialogue» in Maputo. However, opposition leader Venancio Mondlane, who says he won the election, did not sign the agreement, and tensions increased after a protest was broken up with tear gas and live ammunition today.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika has dismissed claims that Nakuru Level V Hospital exposed HIV/AIDS patients to expired drugs amid growing concerns.
[Nile Post] Preliminary findings indicate that the driver of a Fuso Super Grande truck (UBK 769A), traveling from Kampala to Bombo, lost control while descending Mayanja Valley and plowed into multiple vehicles and a motorcycle.
[allAfrica] Kigali, Rwanda -- «If she did it, then why not me?» - Dr. Victoire Mukamitari.
[allAfrica] The 2025 budget has been approved after intense deliberations and was finalized following efforts by a team led by Deputy President Paul Mashatile, supported by the National Treasury, reports IOL.
[allAfrica] Kigali, Rwanda -- «We never said no. We just said, 'How?' What drove us, the most important thing that drove us, were the children. These were lives that we could change.»
[allAfrica] KwaZulu-Natal, particularly eThekwini, faced further devastation over the weekend as heavy rains exacerbated the damage caused by recent floods, leaving more people homeless and disrupting traffic and businesses.
[allAfrica] Nigerian-born artist and social media personality Prince Ebenezer Obioma, popularly known as 3GAR BABY, has made headlines once again - this time for a luxury car crash in South Africa.
[RFI] With the rise of language learning apps, the Wolof Academy is stepping up to meet the demand by offering online courses and virtual classes of Wolof, the language spoken by almost 80 percent of Senegal's population.
[SAnews.gov.za] Spaza shop and food handling businesses that applied to register their businesses with their local municipalities but were awaiting their registration outcomes will not be penalised, Small Business Development Minister Stella Ndabeni said.
[Premium Times] Nigeria's dependence on foreign aid created room for USAID -- an organisation responsible for disbursing most US international aid - and left a huge gap in its absence.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) has confirmed receiving 14 captured fighters suspected to be members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) from the Alliance Fleuve Congo/March 23 Movement (AFC/M23).
[Shabelle] New York -- To enforce the arms embargo on Somalia, the Security Council decided today to reauthorize maritime interdiction of illicit weapons imports and charcoal exports, reiterating its determination that Al-Shabaab's attempts to undermine peace and security in the region -- including through acts of terrorism -- constitute a threat to international peace and security.
[Africa CDC] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | -- The Emergency Consultative Group (ECG) of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), chaired by Professor Salim Abdool Karim, has unanimously recommended the continuation of Mpox as a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS). This decision follows a comprehensive review of the ongoing outbreak, highlighting rising case numbers, continued spread to new countries, the emergence of a highly transmissible new variant, and persistent challenges in vaccine supply and
[UN News] UN humanitarians on Friday warned again that thousands of families could starve in the coming weeks inside the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur.
[FrontPageAfrica] It's been four years since Sensee Morris took the brave decision to call out corruption. It's a choice very few Liberians make, according to transparency advocates, because of the dangers involved. And Mr. Morris has paid a heavy price.
[WFP] As African governments mark a decade of progress on school feeding, the push is on to get more children on board
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ) has summoned Chief Justice Martha Koome and nine other Judicial Service Commission (JSC) members over failure to publish complaints as per the statutory requirements.
[allAfrica] Monrovia -- More than a million doses of vaccine were allocated so far for emergency use against the infectious mpox virus disease, which has killed hundreds of people in the region and afflicted tens of thousands more, the Africa Centers for Disease Control has announced. Speaking at a weekly online briefing, the head of the Incident Management Team in DR Congo, Ngashi Ngongo, said that of the eight countries that received vaccine doses, five have already begun to inoculate people against the disease. About 200,000
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