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[Daily Maverick] The ANC will no doubt deny that it can be held responsible for load shedding and it will explain how mistakes were made. But it has not, as far as is known, closed down Chancellor House. It has not even subjected the culprits for Eskom's diabolical decline, including Jacob Zuma, to any disciplinary processes. Where the Eskom disaster is concerned, the ANC has done... nothing.

[New Zimbabwe] The State has withdrawn subversion charges pressed against two MDC Kwekwe legislators for lack of evidence to institute trial proceedings.

[This Day] Obinna Chima wonders if West African countries can ever meet the target of adopting a single currency in the region, especially with January 2020 no longer achievable

[New Zimbabwe] A Zimbabwean schoolteacher has taken the Justice Minister and the army commander to court to pursue over $400 000 in terms of damage for injuries suffered when he got shot by soldiers during the August 1, 2018 post-election violence in Harare.

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe's second largest local cotton firm, Southern Cotton Company (SCC) says it is holding on to cotton lint worth US$750 000 which is long overdue for exportation owing to the time-consuming process of getting export licences from government.

[CAJ News] Chimanimani -South Africa has spent R59 million to construct bridges in Zimbabwean communities left stranded by the deadly Cyclone Idai early this year.

[Nairobi News] Gor Mahia coach Steven Polack is contemplating leaving the club due to what he says is a very hard working condition occasioned by the tough financial constraints currently bedeviling the reigning Kenya Premier League champions.

[Premium Times] The convicted Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, will continue to receive his salaries and all other entitlements while in prison, the Senate has said.

[New Times] President Paul Kagame on Sunday told participants gathered at the inaugural 'Kusi Ideas Festival' that it was important for Africa to work together as one continent if it is to achieve the progress people aspire to have.

[VOA] Dakar -Berlin, Paris and London are common destinations for African artists seeking to establish their careers and build name recognition. But as they focus their attention on the West, they risk being forgotten at home. Such was the inspiration behind a traveling exhibition making its way across Africa.

[Capital FM] There was heavy security at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi where Governor Mike Sonko was set to face corruption and assault charges on Monday morning.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -Tanzania's dollar millionaire, who passed on on Saturday night, succumbed to pneumonia, a family friend said on Sunday, December 08, 2019.

[News24Wire] It seems the ANC is just as surprised as most people by news reports that former president Jacob Zuma had taken ill and is undergoing treatment in Cuba.

[Premium Times] The Comptroller General (CGI) of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, says the federal government plans to introduce a new visa regime to boost the economy.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] From young "climate warriors" planning to improve Lagos slums with solar lighting and cleaner drains, to Bangladeshi researchers working with vulnerable villagers at risk from rising seas, poor communities are generating a huge amount of knowledge on how to live better on a warming planet.

[Deutsche Welle] Reinhard Bonnke's ministry claims he converted tens of millions in Africa to Christianity. Leaders in Africa paid tribute to the late evangelist, including Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -Reef tourism, a nearly $36-billion-a-year industry today, could see more than 90% losses by 2100, ocean experts warn

[allAfrica] Cape Town -South Africa's Zozibini Tunzi has been crowned Miss Universe 2019.

[Atlantic Council] Washington, DC -Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok became the first Sudanese leader to travel to Washington, DC in more than thirty years, seeking to win more international support for his transitional government as it tries to guide Sudan towards democracy.

[Nairobi News] Olympic marathon champion and world record holder Eliud Kipchoge was on Friday conferred with an honorary doctorate degree by Laikipia University during the institution's 7th graduation ceremony.

[Monitor] The search and rescue team in the western district of Bundibugyo have recovered 10 more bodies following heavy rains that have cause floods and landslides in the area. This brings the total number of bodies recovered so far to 22 as more people are still missing.

[Monitor] Eight more bodies have been recovered in Bududa and Sironko districts following landslides in Bugisu sub-region triggered by heavy rains, bringing the death toll so far to 13.

[News24Wire] The final casualty in the Tau Lekoa mine disaster near Orkney, North West, has been located and was being retrieved, Village Main Reef Limited confirmed on Sunday.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -One of Tanzania's dollar millionaires and chairman for Infotech Investment Group, Ali Mufuruki, is no more.

[East African] The East African Court of Justice has dismissed a case against the Burundi government which sought to block President Pierre Nkurunziza's 2015 move to vie for a third term.

[Premium Times] The U.S. government has said it is 'deeply concerned' by the rearrest of Omoyele Sowore by the State Security Service (SSS).

[East African] The East African Community Secretariat has signed an agreement that will see the German government fund health and education programmes in the region to the tune of $128 million.

[East African] The government of Juba has thrown a spanner in the works by proposing that the contested number of states--one of the impediments to the formation of transitional government--be increased to 40 or even 55, throwing away everything put on the table so far. The negotiations are now deadlocked.

[Zimbabwe Standard] President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threatened to "deal" with striking doctors, claiming they were being paid by unknown organisations to continue with their job boycott.

[East African] Tanzania has signed an agreement to link its Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a deal that gives Dar es Salaam's multi-billion-dollar project a major shot in the arm.