[Daily Trust] A petrol-laden tanker exploded on Thursday night while discharging its contents at the AYM Shafa filling station in Garki Area III, Abuja, triggering a major fire that spread to nearby buildings.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- African governments and aviation industry leaders are pushing for faster implementation of open-skies policies, warning that fragmented air transport markets are raising business costs and limiting the benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Area.
[AIM] Maputo -- The Civil Society Learning and Capacity Building Centre (CESC), a prominent Mozambican NGO, has challenged the Assembly of the Republic, the country's Parliament, to develop the necessary capacities to analyze the legislative merit of bills.
[Vanguard] Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has raised the alarm over a suspicious credit into one of his private bank accounts domiciled with one of Nigeria's leading commercial banks, and has put security agencies on notice over the incident.
Rights groups say this as part of a pattern of targeting news outlets - the government has not commented.
[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- TANZANIA and Uganda yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop the proposed Tanga Regional Energy Hub, marking a major step towards deeper energy cooperation, industrialisation and regional trade.
[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- IN the third part of the Daily News Diplomatic Bench interview series, Tanzania's High Commissioner to Mozambique, CP Hamad Khamis, says the next phase of cooperation between the two nations should focus on building industries, strengthening regional value chains and unlocking new opportunities for investment, trade and employment.
Although most of about 80,000 people who swarmed into the tiny North African territory have gone back, it is estimated that 3,000 to 5,000 remain.
[Capital FM] Acclaimed singer, songwriter, and playwright Somi has been announced as Spotify's EQUAL Africa artist for the month of August. Celebrated globally for her narrative richness and genre-defying sound, Somi has built an extraordinary career bridging African rhythms with contemporary American jazz.
[Ghanaian Times] More than a decade after Ghana joined the ranks of oil-producing nations, the country's upstream petroleum industry is facing a defining question: Is the steady decline in crude oil production the inevitable result of ageing oil fields, or has it been accelerated by years of underinvestment and slowing exploration?
[Ghanaian Times] Tema -- The Tema Regional Police Command has intercepted 866 parcels of substances suspected to be cocaine concealed in sacks of gari and allegedly destined for export, with an estimated street value of $6.928 million, and arrested four suspects in two separate anti-narcotics operations.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Coleman's statement, posted to his personal Facebook page, reads less like a routine institutional update and more like a man answering a question nobody asked him directly, because everybody has been asking it indirectly for weeks. "Criminal organizations thrive where fear, silence, and institutional weakness prevail. They will not prevail in Liberia again," he wrote. "The Liberia National Police will not be intimidated, distracted, or deterred from enforcing the law."
[FrontPageAfrica] He came to swear in judges and court marshals. He left having delivered the most direct public warning of his presidency -- to drug traffickers, yes, but also, if the words are taken at face value, to anyone inside his own government still hoping this scandal blows over quietly.
A Senegalese court has sentenced three TikTok influencers to prison for posts that allegedly insulted President Bassirou Diomaye Faye.
[Daily News] Dodoma -- THE Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organisation (TIRDO) has expanded its push for value addition by facilitating the construction of seven solar dryers across the country, with another currently under development to help curb postharvest losses.
[Independent (Kampala)] Dar es Salaam -- President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania have endorsed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at reshaping East Africa's energy economy by shifting the region's focus from crude oil exports to building an integrated regional energy and industrial hub.
[Liberian Observer] Liberia Telecommunications Authority Chairman Clarence Massaquoi may have created a bigger problem for President Joseph Nyuma Boakai than he realizes.
[allAfrica] "Stay together."
[CAF] The CAF Executive Committee ("EXCO") unanimously endorses the "Joint Update" by the FIFA President and Secretary General on the FIFA Forward Enterprise and will continue to focus on making African Football amongst the best in the world and adhering to governance and transparency global best practices.
[Daily News] Mwanza -- COTTON farmers have been urged to adopt good agricultural practices, to increase productivity and improve crop quality. The call was made on Wednesday in Ilemela Municipality by Cotton Board Agricultural Officer Onesmo Kiwango during training sessions held as part of the Nanenane exhibitions.
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