DAKAR: Senegal is strengthening its coronavirus testing capacity to enable travellers to get tested before leaving the country, and testing those arriving in...
DAKAR: Senegal is strengthening its coronavirus testing capacity to enable travellers to get tested before leaving the country, and testing those arriving in...
MACHAKOS, Kenya - At the Machakos COVID-19 field hospital about an hour's drive from the Kenyan capital, workers struggle to put a giant...
NAIROBI - Tanzania's former President Benjamin Mkapa, who ushered in multiparty democracy at home and worked to end conflict in East Africa, died...
Johannesburg - South Africa's public schools will close again for a month from Monday to limit the spread of coronavirus as the country...
Johannesburg: South African anti-apartheid figure Andrew Mlangeni, who stood trial alongside Nelson Mandela in the 1963-64 Rivonia Trial, has died at the age...
Kinshasa: DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has lifted a health emergency over the coronavirus outbreak and ordered a reopening in three stages of...
HARARE - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Tuesday his government would impose a night-time curfew and tighten other measures to tackle rising...
Public hospitals in Madagascar said they’ve reached full capacity and will only accept patients with the most severe forms of Covid-19 as cases...
ABUJA: Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19, and became the first member of President Muhammadu...
Johannesburg: Coronavirus has revealed the "fragile skeleton" of societies and could push 100 million people into extreme poverty, United Nations Secretary General Antonio...
LIBREVILLE: Gabon President Ali Bongo on Thursday promoted his defence minister, Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, to prime minister on Thursday, the first time...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's cases of COVID-19 crossed 300,000 on Wednesday, the most in Africa and among the 10 highest in the world....
CAPE TOWN - The head of Cecil Rhodes has been chopped away from a bust of the 19th century colonialist at a monument...
Rabat: Morocco on Monday announced a return to lockdown measures in the northern port city of Tangiers to smother a new outbreak of...
JOHANNESBURG: Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid leaders Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died aged 59. State television South African...
JOHANNESBURG - The premier of Gauteng, South Africa's most populous province, said on Friday he had tested positive for COVID-19, as new confirmed...
GABORONE - Botswana said on Friday it had received test results from samples sent to Zimbabwe to determine the cause of death of...
Nairobi - Kenya on Tuesday declared that its school year was considered lost because of the coronavirus pandemic, and primary and secondary pupils...
