GENEVA: The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in Africa, spreading to the hinterland from capital cities where it arrived with travellers, the World Health...
GENEVA: The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in Africa, spreading to the hinterland from capital cities where it arrived with travellers, the World Health...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday ruled out forming a transitional government once his mandate expires in early October, brushing...
Bamako: Twenty-six people were killed in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said Saturday, in the latest violence to hit...
Dakar: Senegal has postponed the restart of schools until further notice after several teachers tested positive for the new coronavirus, the education ministry...
KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of Congo declared a new Ebola epidemic on Monday in the western city of Mbandaka, more than 1,000 km (620...
Dar es Salaam: Universities in Tanzania reopened on Monday, despite a lack of clarity on the spread of coronavirus after the government decided...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa partly lifted a two month-old coronavirus lockdown on Monday, letting people outside for work, worship, exercise or shopping, and...
Mogadishu: At least six people were killed on Sunday when a minibus struck a roadside bomb near the Somali capital Mogadishu, police and...
KIGALI: At the Kanyinya COVID-19 treatment facility a short distance from Rwanda's capital Kigali, Akazuba, Ikizere and Ngabo report for duty, but these...
HARARE, Zimbabwe: Facing myriad political and economic challenges, a new wave of dissensions in the ruling front is further eroding the authority of...
The Hague: The alleged financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, arrested this month in France after 25 years on the run, will be...
BLANTYRE, Malawi: Manhunts have begun after hundreds of people, some with the coronavirus, fled quarantine centers in Zimbabwe and Malawi while authorities worry...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa could see up to 50,000 coronavirus deaths and as many as 3 million infections by the end of the...
The rate of new coronavirus infections in South Africa has to slow before the country can lift a nationwide lockdown in line with...
CAPE TOWN - The idea of testing the BCG vaccine in Africa against COVID-19 was bound to cause controversy, yet officials say efforts...
OUAGADOUGOU - On stage in an empty auditorium, backed by starry lights, Patrick Kabre plucks his electric guitar and sings through a microphone...
BENI: An armed group killed at least 20 civilians in an overnight raid on a village in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo on...
NAIROBI: Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday banned movement across the country's borders with Tanzania and Somalia to help curb the spread of...
