January 23
Nigeria: Family Returns Widow's N1.6million After Intervention By Governor's Wife
Premium Times
The extended family members allegedly deprived the widow of access to the bank account after her husband's death. Read more »
Kenya: Kenya, UK Deepen Healthcare Partnerships to Drive UHC and Economic Growth
Capital FM
The Ministry of Health on Thursday engaged local and international stakeholders at the UK-Kenya Business Forum Healthcare Roundtable in Nairobi, pitching healthcare as a strategic… Read more »
Africa: Are Meat Eaters Really More Likely to Live to 100 Than Non-Meat Eaters, As a Recent Study Suggests? [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
People who don't eat meat may be less likely than meat eaters to reach the age of 100, according to a recent study. But before you reconsider your plant-based diet, there's more to… Read more »
Liberia: Government of Liberia Cancels Yellow Machines Deal and Plans Return of Equipment
New Republic
The Government of Liberia has canceled a controversial procurement deal and announced plans to return 35 yellow machines brought into the country in 2024. The decision follows… Read more »
Namibia: EIF Invests in New Boreholes Nationwide ...Ministry Budgets N$40m for Water Treatment Solutions
New Era
Namibia is experiencing a severe water crisis, with its central regions facing dire shortages driven by climate change and infrastructure constraints. Read more »
Liberia: River Gee Residents Give Power Company 48-Hour Ultimatum Over Electricity Crisis
New Republic
Residents of River Gee County staged a major protest on Monday, January 19, 2026, over what they described as a prolonged and unreliable electricity supply. Demonstrators issued a… Read more »
Southern Africa: Moving Towards Agroecological Food Systems in Southern Africa
IPS
In a quiet village known as Nkhondola, in Chongwe District, Eastern Zambia, Royd Michelo and his wife, Adasila Kanyanga, have transformed their five-acre piece of land into a… Read more »
Africa: Beyond Shifting Power - Rethinking Localisation Across the Humanitarian Sector [opinion]
IPS
For the last decade, many in the foreign aid sector have emphasised the need for localisation, and in the last 5 years, the calls have been louder than ever. I am one of such… Read more »
Rwanda: New Movies, Series to Stream This Weekend
New Times
Finding your next show or movie can be tricky without a friend's recommendation. Read more »
Kenya: Kenyans See Health As a Key Priority for Government Action, Endorse Universal Access
Afrobarometer
Most citizens say they worry about being unable to obtain or afford medical care. Read more »
South Africa: Sewage Spills Leave Seweding Residents Living in Unsanitary Conditions
Health-e
Residents of Seweding village in Mahikeng say they have been facing persistent sewage spills for months. Frustrated residents say they feel helpless as raw sewage repeatedly floods… Read more »
Nigeria: Enugu Govt Agric Officials Educate Igbo-Eze South Farmers On Farming, Storage Techniques [press release]
Premium Times
The officials were on a sensitisation tour on post-farming and post-harvest activities. Read more »
January 22
Mozambique: Mozambique Floods Causing Spiralling Emergency - UN
New Era
Severe flooding in Mozambique has triggered a rapidly escalating emergency that is already affecting more than half a million people, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. Read more »
South Africa: Illegal Dumping Turns Soshanguve Schools Into Health Hazards
Health-e
Several government schools in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, have become breeding grounds for health hazards, due to delayed waste collection and illegal dumping. During a recent… Read more »
Uganda: For Sudanese Refugee Women in Uganda, a Cup of Coffee and a Space to Speak
The New Humanitarian
"I heard others telling their stories, and I felt they were similar to my own." Read more »
Sudan: Drone Attacks Shock City in Central Sudan As War Inches Closer
RFI
Drone strikes have intensified in and around al-Obeid in central Sudan as the country's devastating civil war closes in on the army-controlled city, causing significant civilian… Read more »
South Africa: Colonial Tax Records Hold 3 Lessons for South Africa Today - Economic Historian [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa's Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he complained about the idle chatter of townsmen… Read more »
Africa: UN Warns of Rising Internet Shutdowns As Digital Blackouts Spread Worldwide
UN News
A rising trend towards government-enforced internet shutdowns - with at least 300 incidents in more than 54 countries over the last two years - is prompting renewed warnings from… Read more »
Nigeria: 12 Persons Dead, Thousands Displaced Amid Lagos Govt's Mass Demolitions Exercise - Coalition
Premium Times
The coalition of civil society groups described the demolitions as part of a systemic attack on the urban poor, carried out without consultation, compensation, or resettlement. Read more »
Ethiopia: Alarm Raised Over Alleged Arbitrary Detentions and Disappearances in Tigray
Addis Standard
Human Rights First has raised concern over what it described as a deteriorating human rights situation in the Tigray region, citing multiple allegations of arbitrary detention,… Read more »
Angola: Cybersecurity - Angola's Latest Tool of Authoritarian Consolidation [analysis]
Maka
Angola has yet to experience a real democratic movement at all. What exists instead is a formal democratic Constitution that permits to entrench an increasingly authoritarian… Read more »
Ethiopia: How Saudi-UAE Rivalry Reshapes Horn of Africa, Opens Window for Tigray's Consolidation [analysis]
Addis Standard
In early 2026, Saudi Arabia issued an unusually forthright public accusation against the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—a fellow Gulf Arab state and former coalition partner in… Read more »
Ethiopia: Children Affected By Ethiopia Mine Pollution Need Justice
HRW
UN Child Rights Body Should Urge Mine Suspension, Independent Assessment Read more »
South Africa: Death Toll Climbs to 14 After Vanderbijlpark School Crash
Scrolla
14 learners have now died after a scholar transport crash in Vanderbijlpark on Monday, 19 January 2026, police confirmed on Thursday. Police charged a 22-year-old scholar… Read more »
South Africa: Anti-Immigrant Protests Erupt At Durban School
GroundUp
Education department rejects claims that immigrants are given preference Read more »
