JOHANNESBURG- South Africa said on Friday a British ban on flights from six southern African countries over a new COVID-19 variant seemed rushed,...
JOHANNESBURG- South Africa said on Friday a British ban on flights from six southern African countries over a new COVID-19 variant seemed rushed,...
World Health Organization officials met on Thursday to discuss a new coronavirus variant circulating in South Africa and Botswana. The new variant, called...
Mogadishu: At least eight people were killed in Somalia's capital on Thursday when Islamist militants launched a suicide attack on a U.N. security...
Ethiopia’s government said today that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has gone to the battlefront to take charge in the country’s yearlong war and...
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa has asked Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer to delay delivery of COVID-19 vaccines because it now has too much stock,...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso: Trapped in conflicts, the children of West and Central Africa are the most recruited by armed groups in the world...
ADDIS ABABA: After a century and a half hidden in private collections, 13 stolen Ethiopian artefacts have finally returned home following months of...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken encouraged Tunisia's leader to make reforms to respond to Tunisians' hopes for "democratic progress", the U.S. State...
ABUJA, Nigeria:U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called on African nations to heed warnings posed by crises inEthiopiaand Sudan, take seriously...
Kampala: Three suicide bombers in the heart of Uganda's capital killed at least three civilians and sent parliamentarians rushing for cover as nearby...
CONAKRY: Guinea will begin vaccinating children aged 12-17 against COVID-19 with a consignment of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines on Wednesday, the health ministry...
CAPE TOWN: South African officials are investigating an alarming rise in seal deaths along the west coast near Cape Town, with malnutrition one...
KHARTOUM, Sudan:Sudan’s protest movement has rejected internationally backed initiatives to return to a power-sharing arrangement with the military after last month’s coup, announcing...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone:An oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone's capital, killing at least 92 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large...
Ninety-one people were killed in the capital ofSierraLeone on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, the central morgue and local...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Seven more bodies have been recovered from a high-rise apartment building that collapsed while under construction in Lagos, bringing the death...
LAGOS, Nigeria: The number of bodies recovered from a collapsed high-rise apartment building in Nigeria’s most populous city has risen to 36, an...
LAGOS: Rescuers in Nigeria on Wednesday raced to find survivors, two days after a high-rise building under construction collapsed and trapped scores of...