JOHANNESBURG - South Africa is trying to get COVID-19 vaccines as soon as February, but the timing will depend on bilateral negotiations with...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa is trying to get COVID-19 vaccines as soon as February, but the timing will depend on bilateral negotiations with...
MUTARE, Zimbabwe: In response to rising COVID-19 numbers, Zimbabwe has reintroduced a night curfew, banned public gatherings, and indefinitely suspended the opening of...
NAIROBI: Kenya is extending its nightly curfew to March 12 as part of measures aimed at taming the spread of COVID-19, President Uhuru...
CONAKRY, Guinea: Guinea began vaccinating against COVID-19 with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine on an experimental basis, starting with government officials, authorities said...
Johannesburg: "Go home -- I could arrest you for that." The blunt message came from the policeman armed with a gun and a...
Johannesburg - South Africa has become the first African nation to record one million coronavirus cases, according to new data published by the...
Bangui, Central African Republic: Voting began in presidential and legislative elections in the Central African Republic on Sunday, in a key test for...
Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou’s favored successor, Mohamed Bazoum, is the front-runner to win Sunday’s elections, after the main opposition challenger was barred from...
BANGUI, Central African Republic: Three peacekeepers from Burundi were killed and two others wounded in Central African Republic in attacks Friday by armed...
Johannesburg: At least 15 people have died in recent weeks on the South African side of the Beitbridge border with Zimbabwe in lengthy...
Niger-vote-unrestNiamey: Seven troops and 11 suspected jihadists have died in clashes in a troubled western region of Niger ahead of elections this weekend,...
Kano, Nigeria: Local vigilantes rescued dozens of schoolchildren abducted by bandits in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina after a gun battle, police...
Kankara, Nigeria: Annas Shuaibu says he awoke to the sound of gunshots fired by men who burst into his boarding school in northwest...
Katsina, Nigeria: Dozens of schoolboys who were rescued from kidnappers in northwest Nigeria arrived back home on Friday, many of them barefoot and...
KINSHASA: The Democratic Republic of Congo will impose a curfew and other strict measures, including the mandatory wearing of masks in public spaces,...
Lagos: The latest abduction of 333 schoolchildren claimed by Boko Haram comes nearly three years after 111 schoolgirls were snatched by jihadists in...
Lagos: Gunmen have raided a government secondary school in northern Nigeria's Katsina state, police said Saturday, in an apparent kidnapping attempt for ransom....
Johannesburg - South Africa, the country most affected by the coronavirus on the continent, has entered a second wave of the pandemic, the...
