World / Africa

Nigeria's Lagos state faces "potential third wave" of COVID-19 12 Jul 2021 - 12:54 pm

LAGOS: Nigeria's Lagos state faces a "potential third wave" of coronovirus infections, its governor said in a statement. He warned of fines or...

South Africa extends tight COVID-19 restrictions for another 14 days 11 Jul 2021 - 10:32 pm

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa extended tight COVID-19 rules on Sunday for another 14 days, maintaining restrictions that include a ban on gatherings, a...

Ethiopia PM Abiy's party wins landslide victory in parliamentary election 10 Jul 2021 - 09:04 pm

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...

Libya closes borders with Tunisia for a week due to rise in coronavirus cases 09 Jul 2021 - 12:12 am

TRIPOLI - Libya's new unity government on Thursday announced it was closing its borders with Tunisia for a week due to the rise...

Belgium begins long road to returning looted Congolese art works 06 Jul 2021 - 05:47 pm

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...

South Africa's new coronavirus cases surge to record levels 04 Jul 2021 - 09:15 pm

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's resurgence of COVID-19 is setting record numbers of new daily cases, centered in Johannesburg and driven by the delta...

South Africa's Zuma marches with supporters opposed to his jailing 03 Jul 2021 - 06:35 pm

NKANDLA, South Africa: Hundreds of supporters of Jacob Zuma marched alongside the former South African president in his hometown of Nkandla on Saturday,...

Driven by delta variant, COVID-19 surges across Africa 02 Jul 2021 - 08:38 pm

JOHANNESBURG: Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions, and...

Six fully vaccinated people died of Covid-19 in most-vaccinated nation 01 Jul 2021 - 08:12 pm

The coronavirus has killed six fully vaccinated people in the Seychelles, which is suffering heightened Covid-19 infections despite inoculating a greater proportion of...

Africa faces worst week of pandemic as delta variant spreads 01 Jul 2021 - 03:09 pm

Coronavirus cases in Africa are rising so quickly that the continent will soon face its worst week since the start of the pandemic,...

Kenya to start receiving 13 mln J&J shots in August -president 29 Jun 2021 - 08:03 pm

NAIROBI - Kenya will receive the first batch of 13 million COVID-19 vaccine shots from Johnson & Johnson in August, President Uhuru Kenyatta...

Nigeria adds South Africa to its COVID-19 'red list' for arriving travellers 28 Jun 2021 - 09:50 pm

ABUJA - Nigeria is adding South Africa to its "red list" of countries for which there are stringent restrictions for arriving passengers, officials...

South Africa to tighten COVID-19 restrictions for 14 days 27 Jun 2021 - 11:49 pm

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa will tighten COVID-19 restrictions for 14 days as current containment measures are insufficient to cope with the speed and...

Delta Covid-19 variant starting to dominate in South Africa, say scientists 26 Jun 2021 - 05:28 pm

JOHANNESBURG: New coronavirus infections in South Africa appear to be dominated by the Delta variant that was first identified in India, scientists said...

South Africa aims to more than double daily COVID-19 vaccinations over next month 25 Jun 2021 - 01:16 pm

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa aims to more than double the rate of daily COVID-19 vaccinations over the next month to more than 200,000...

Africa CDC says continent not winning against 'brutal' COVID-19 pandemic 24 Jun 2021 - 02:14 pm

HARARE: Africa is not winning its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as a third virus wave sweeps the continent and countries struggle to...

South Africa's health regulator to assess efficacy of Sinopharm vaccine 23 Jun 2021 - 08:15 pm

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's health regulator said on Wednesday it had received documentation for China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine and will evaluate the data...