[Ethiopian Herald] It is now ten years since the construction of the GERD has been launched. Through these years the project has undergone several phases, several controversies and equally many diplomatic rows and negotiations, at times hopeful at others discouraging. It is clear that the GERD for Ethiopia is a matter of sovereignty, a matter of survival as a nation of more than 110 million people and it is a matter of development.

[This Day] The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Simbi Wabote, has said the 2,500 barrels per day modular refinery under construction at Egbokor, Edo State by Duport Midstream Company Limited in partnership with the NCDMB will be ready for inauguration in the last quarter of 2021.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi government has terminated a K5.1 billion contract with contractor Mota Engil to build the Rumphi-Nyika-Nthalire-Chitipa Road as Roads Authority has been given a K90 billion bill by the Portuguese contractor for infrastructure construction.

[Namibian] Donald Tjikune was a very clinical striker for both Liverpool and Black Africa. A product of the football-crazy St Joseph's High School at Dobra, he enjoyed unparalleled success with the Okahandja-based Liverpool, with whom he also ventured into the African Cup Winners' Cup competition by virtue of winning the domestic NFA Cup in 1992.

[Ayin English] On Monday, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok made a formal request to the African Union (AU), United Nations, European Union and the United States to mediate in an increasingly bitter regional dispute over the filling of Ethiopia's ambitious hydro-electric dam along the Blue Nile River.