LAGOS: Nigeria has put six states on red alert after seeing a "worrisome" rise in COVID-19 infections, a government official said, urging people...
LAGOS: Nigeria has put six states on red alert after seeing a "worrisome" rise in COVID-19 infections, a government official said, urging people...
GENEVA: Nearly 50 African countries are to receive 25 million COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the United States, with the first shipments to...
NAIROBI: African countries need to get equal access to COVID-19 vaccines so they can start rebuilding their devastated tourism industries, Kenya's tourism minister...
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was due to visit KwaZulu-Natal province - one of the flashpoints of a spasm of violence...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africans counted the cost on Thursday of arson and looting that has destroyed hundreds of businesses and killed at least...
DAKAR: Africa recorded a 43% rise in COVID-19 deaths this week compared with last week as infections and hospital admissions have jumped and...
HARARE - Zimbabwe is aiming to vaccinate 1 million people against COVID-19 in the next two weeks, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Tuesday...
JOHANNESBURG: At an emergency COVID-19 ward run by a charity in southern Johannesburg, medics wheel gasping patients to their beds, rush from room...
LAGOS: Nigeria's Lagos state faces a "potential third wave" of coronovirus infections, its governor said in a statement. He warned of fines or...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa extended tight COVID-19 rules on Sunday for another 14 days, maintaining restrictions that include a ban on gatherings, a...
ADDIS ABABA: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party won the most seats in Ethiopia's parliamentary election, the election board said on Saturday, a...
TRIPOLI - Libya's new unity government on Thursday announced it was closing its borders with Tunisia for a week due to the rise...
TERVUREN, Belgium: Belgium's Africa Museum, once a celebration of the country's colonial rule, will begin a multi-year process of returning stolen art to...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's resurgence of COVID-19 is setting record numbers of new daily cases, centered in Johannesburg and driven by the delta...
NKANDLA, South Africa: Hundreds of supporters of Jacob Zuma marched alongside the former South African president in his hometown of Nkandla on Saturday,...
JOHANNESBURG: Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions, and...
The coronavirus has killed six fully vaccinated people in the Seychelles, which is suffering heightened Covid-19 infections despite inoculating a greater proportion of...
Coronavirus cases in Africa are rising so quickly that the continent will soon face its worst week since the start of the pandemic,...
