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Burundi's longtime President Pierre Nkurunziza has congratulated the governing party's hand-picked successor on a "large victory" in the country's presidential election, though the main opposition has pledged to contest the result in court.

Tanzania says it has summoned the top official at the US embassy to object to an advisory that warned of "exponential growth" of Covid-19 cases in the east African nation.

Angola's billionaire former first-daughter Isabel dos Santos and her husband are seeking to revoke a court order that froze their assets last year as part of a massive corruption probe, their lawyer says.

The two Zimbabwean journalists arrested last week as they were investigating the abduction of three opposition party members have been released on bail, a lawyers' association says.

There are a few examples that show that African institutions of higher learning and many other organisations can play their part in collectively helping fellow Africans face the pandemic head-on, writes Nico Elema.

State surveillance is on the rise globally as governments such as Egypt's take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic, warns exiled historian and intellectual Khaled Fahmy.

The former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda discusses the hunt for genocide suspects.

Madagascar's government has announced it will dispatch troops and doctors to an eastern town after several bodies were found in the streets and where two people died from the novel coronavirus.

Burundi's ruling party presidential candidate Evariste Ndayishimiye on Monday was declared the victor of the bitterly disputed election, with 68.72 percent of the vote.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in Africa has exposed how far the continent still has to go before achieving its aspirations of a united and prosperous region.

[Daily News] THE market is still in a distasteful shape, with turnovers at lowest point in the market's recent history.

[Daily News] THE Covid-19 pandemic is creating significant eco- nomic challenges for industries world-wide.

[East African] Six months ago, Beledweyne, a town in central Somalia was battered by heavy rainstorms. The flooding destroyed houses, crops and roads, and displaced thousands of families.

[East African] The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Kenya has reached 1,348, Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

[UN News] Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in East Africa, the UN Human Rights regional office, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been contributing to the COVID-19 response of UN country teams in the region, by ensuring that human rights protection for vulnerable people is included in their plans. The head of the […]

[SudaNow] Sudan's Ministry of Health on Tuesday announced 156 new cases of COVID-19 including five fatalities.

[Shabelle] In the early hours of Monday, May 25, 2020, Jubaland Security Forces beat back Al-Shabaab militants who attacked their base and training center in Dhobley. Al-Shabaab lost several men and a range of weapons were left behind as they hastily retreated in defeat.

[Shabelle] Somali army chief General Odowa Yusuf Rage has paid a visit to a key military base in central town amid preparation for a final push against Al-Shabaab militants in the country.

[Radio Dabanga] Kadugli -On Thursday last week, a man was killed by armed men wearing uniforms of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) near the South Kordofan capital of Kadugli, after he stated he belonged to the Nuba Reika tribe.

[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -Prices of commodities have soared, and transportation tariffs doubled over the last several days across Sudan. The increases are largely attributed to the dramatic increase in salaries in the country recently.