HARARE - Zimbabwe will receive 200,000 free doses of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday, after China and Russia...
HARARE - Zimbabwe will receive 200,000 free doses of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday, after China and Russia...
KAMPALA: Uganda has ordered 18 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and up to 40% of the shipments are expected...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's first coronavirus vaccine doses arrived by airplane on Monday, offering some relief for health workers who have been stretched...
Mogadishu: Nine people died after al Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgents stormed a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, battling security forces until the early...
NOUAKCHOTT - About 245 pelican chicks and two dozen adult pelicans have died from H5N1 bird flu in a Mauritanian national park bordering...
Johannesburg: South Africa has secured an additional 20 million coronavirus vaccines manufactured by Pfizer, national newspaper The Sunday Times reported on Sunday, citing...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Ethiopia’s government has privately told Biden administration staffers its embattled Tigray region has "returned to normalcy,” but new witness accounts describe...
Johannesburg: News that the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine has shown about 60% efficacy on HIV-positive patients and that it seems to work against the...
NAIROBI: Kenya said on Friday it was seeking an extra 11 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, on top of 24 million already ordered,...
MAPUTO: The death toll from Storm Eloise has risen to 21 across southern Africa after Mozambique and eSwatini reported a further five and...
DAKAR - A more contagious variant of the coronavirus first identified in Britain has now been detected in Senegal, its health institute said...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's health ministry will issue a tender to store and distribute COVID-19 vaccines on Feb. 5, it said on Thursday,...
Nairobi: The World Health Organization (WHO) urged Tanzania on Thursday to follow science, a day after its president said COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous...
RABAT - Morocco will start rolling out its mass coronavirus vaccination programme on Thursday, the royal palace said, the first African country to...
TUNIS - The office of Tunisia’s president received a letter containing suspicious powder and is investigating the matter, a source there told Reuters...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa expects the flight carrying its first 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to arrive on Feb. 1, Health Minister Zweli...
Vulnerabilities in the world's food supply system have been laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, making global leaders more aware that if not...
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday urged wealthy countries not to hoard surplus COVID-19 vaccine supplies, adding his voice to...
