[East African] Africa's leading carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, has upped the competition for the US market, with this week's announcement that it will introduce three-times-a-week flights to the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, adding to its flights to the city's Newark International Airport.

[AIM] London -The US-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) has warned that southern Mozambique and parts of the centre of the country are facing a food crisis due to December's abnormally high temperatures and late rains.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange closed last week in a low note, as only Sh15 million turnover was recorded on Friday, compared with Sh100 million the day before.

[The Conversation Africa] Sport has always been influenced by industrial revolutions through the millenia, starting way back in the late 18th century with the first industrial revolution. Each one since has dramatically affected sporting activities.

[Balancing Act] London -As mobile operators pivot their business to a more data centric future, lowering their CAPEX through shared infrastructure becomes ever more important. One of the key players - CSquared - brings together investment from Convergence Partners and Google. Russell Southwood talks to its new Group CEO Lanre Kolade about its future plans.

[SAnews.gov.za] Eskom has concluded a R15 billion loan facility with a consortium of local and international banks.

[SAnews.gov.za] Consumers will have to fork out more at the pumps as the price of petrol is set to increase by 7 cents a litre this week.

[Ghanaian Times] Mobile telecommunications services are fundamental for the effective functioning of the State as they are critical for national security and for economic and social activity.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -Health Services have been paralysed in hospitals within 23 counties as nurses protested delayed allowances and the non-implementation of a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiated in November 2017.

[The Herald] The National Bakers' Association of Zimbabwe has attributed the shortages of bread on the market to lack of foreign currency to import wheat to make flour.

[The Herald] ZESA Holdings lost electricity infrastructure worth almost $3,7 million in the first 10 months of last year due to vandalism - affecting power distribution in the process.

[The Herald] The National Social Security Authority has submitted a request to Government for an upward review of monthly pension payouts.

[Deutsche Welle] Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has denied reports of a rift between himself and his deputy, a former army general who led the coup that toppled longtime ruler Robert Mugabe.

[allAfrica] A senior representative of Dubai-based harbour operator DP World has been killed in the port town of Bosaso in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland, Bloomberg reports.

[New Zimbabwe] Bailed Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) secretary general, Japhet Moyo is still languishing in remand prison after police have indicated they were still holding on to him over a different offence.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -A new collection of photographs showcasing the changing attire of Kenya's pastoralists aims to spotlight how the recent discovery of oil in the country's remote northwest is slowly altering their traditional way of life and culture.

[East African] The EastAfrican has learnt that the volumes of coffee exports from Uganda to Sudan have "dropped drastically" since June 2018.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nairobi -A new collection of photographs showcasing the changing attire of Kenya's pastoralists aims to spotlight how the recent discovery of oil in the country's remote northwest is slowly altering their traditional way of life and culture.

[The Herald] Government has drawn-down $45,9 million, representing 30 percent of the total project cost for upgrading and modernisation of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.

[East African] Tanzania will earn $180.2 million from its stock of cashewnuts after it entered into an agreement with a little known Kenyan-registered firm, Indo Power Solutions Ltd, for the purchase of 100,000 tonnes of the product last week.