[Deutsche Welle] More than a hundred thousand Burundian refugees in neighboring Tanzania face overcrowding and disease. Aid agencies say the lives of these refugees could be threatened by heavy rains and an increase of new arrivals.
[The Herald] Tendai Mugabe -Zanu-PF has closed the door on successionists, who were fomenting divisions in the revolutionary party and once again, unanimously endorsed President Mugabe as the party's sole candidate for the 2018 harmonised elections. The endorsement is part of the resolutions made by the provinces for the party's 15th Annual National People's Conference to be held in Victoria Falls next month.
[News24Wire] A South African mother has denied her son is an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighter, after a picture was posted on Twitter of his driver's licence, which was apparently found on the dead body of an unidentified jihadi.
[Leadership] President Muhammadu Buhari, business mogul, Aliko Dangote, blogger Linda Ikeji and 17 other Nigerians have been named amongst the 100 most influential Africans of 2015.
[AIM] Maputo -Mozambicans from the western province of Tete who fled into Malawi to escape clashes between gunmen of the former rebel movement Renamo and the defence and security forces, should return to the country as soon as possible, according to the administrator of Moatize district, Elsa da Barca.
[Premium Times] Thousands of supporters and sympathisers on Monday thronged Ogbonicha town to witness his burial of the late candidate of All Progressive Congress in the Saturday's inconclusive governorship election in Kogi State, Abubakar Audu.