Pretoria - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday warned of a second coronavirus wave following a surge of infections in a southern...
Pretoria - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday warned of a second coronavirus wave following a surge of infections in a southern...
Khartoum: More than 8,000 Ethiopians fleeing conflict in the Tigray region have crossed west into neighbouring Sudan within 48 hours, state news agency...
Addis Ababa: The end of military operations in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray is "coming within reach", Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Tuesday,...
CAPE TOWN: South African researchers plan to release scores of abandoned, hand-reared African penguin chicks at the Western Cape's De Hoop nature reserve,...
Algiers - The health of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who contracted the Covid-19 disease, is "constantly improving", the presidency said Sunday in a...
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sacked his army chief, head of intelligence and foreign minister on Sunday, as the military continued...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia's military announced this week it had "entered into a war" with the northern region of Tigray, leading to fears of...
KHARTOUM: Sudan partially closed its border with Ethiopia, state news agency SUNA reported on Saturday, in the wake of escalating violence in the...
MOGADISHU: Having scraped money together following medical studies abroad, Somali doctor Abdullahi Sheikdon Dini opened Mogadishu's first advanced diagnostic laboratory in January. Its...
NAIROBI: Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has extended the country's nightly curfew to Jan. 3 as part of a raft of measures to contain...
ADDIS ABABA: Heavy fighting broke out in Ethiopia's Tigray region on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said, after the prime minister launched military operations in...
ALGERIA - Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has tested positive for COVID-19, but his condition is gradually improving as he receives treatment in a...
JOHANNESBURG - South African pharmaceutical firm Aspen Pharmacare has announced a deal with U.S. firm Johnson & Johnson to manufacture its COVID-19 vaccine...
WASHINGTON: An American citizen kidnapped in the West African nation of Niger this past week has been rescued in a U.S. military operation...
NAIROBI: Kenya has joined the global clinical trial of Oxford University's vaccine candidate against the new coronavirus, the state medical research institute said...
JOHANNESBURG: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has gone into quarantine after a guest at a charity dinner he attended tested positive for COVID-19,...
CONAKRY, Guinea: Guinea’s President Alpha Conde has won a third term with 59.49% of the vote, the National Independent Electoral Commission declared Saturday....
GENEVA: Health officials in Africa say the rollout of rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19 could be a "game changer” for their fight against...
