A charity chief has urged for fair access to COVID-19 vaccines – making a plea to countries and vaccination providers to not forget “people off the ...
So long as richer countries and pharmaceutical companies proceed with a ‘business as usual’ approach, the threat of COVID-19 still looms, said ...
Floods, droughts, hotter weather and a desert locust invasion — the impacts of climate change are hitting Africa hard, and worse is ahead for the ...
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 243,637 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official ...
Africa has registered a 43 percent jump in reported COVID-19 cases in the last week, highlighting a warning from the World Health Organization that ...
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) supported on Wednesday Saudi Arabia’s measures with regards to the Two Holy Mosques to contain the ...
The coronavirus outbreak could affect a third of the 440 million formal and informal jobs in Africa as lockdowns across the continent deprive people ...
More than 1 million coronavirus tests will be rolled out starting next week in Africa to address the “big gap” in assessing the true number of cases ...
Ethiopia and the United Nations on Tuesday opened a humanitarian transport hub at Addis Ababa airport to move supplies and aid workers across Africa ...
The United States on Saturday accused Chinese authorities of “xenophobia” toward Africans, after coronavirus cases among Nigerians unleashed a wave of ...
Africa is seeing a steady spread of the coronavirus across the continent, with four new countries confirming cases on Saturday, so that 23 of ...
Michael Sunday is delighted, if a little stunned, as he admires his new right hand: a silicone glove-like prosthetic meant to help him return to ...
Gunmen have attacked a Greek tanker ship off Cameroon in West Africa and abducted eight of the 28 crew members, injuring one seaman, Greek authorities ...
South Sudan’s parliamentary speaker has resigned after lawmakers threatened to impeach him for blocking efforts to fight corruption and ...
Four gold miners trapped underground after a tremor caused a rockfall in northeast South Africa have been found dead, their union said Sunday.A fifth ...
Ethiopia’s defense minister, a key ally of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, has criticized plans to transform the ruling coalition into a single party ...
The head of the World Health Organization says attacks by armed groups in eastern Congo have killed workers responding to the Ebola outbreak. He did ...
Energy demand in Africa is growing twice as fast as the global average, and the continent is making large strides in renewable energy and natural gas ...
Facebook said on Wednesday it had suspended three networks of Russian accounts that attempted to interfere in the domestic politics of eight African ...
Russia landed two nuclear-capable bombers in South Africa on a training mission on Wednesday, a flight apparently timed to coincide with President ...
The African Union (AU) has lifted its suspension of Sudan three months after freezing its membership following Khartoum's bloody crackdown on ...
More than 200 migrants were rescued on Wednesday by the Spanish coastguard as they attempted to make the crossing from Africa to Spain, rescue ...
Nigeria is backing its commitment to join Africa’s recently agreed free trade zone by setting up a committee to implement the agreement, and ...
The African soccer body is holding its first major meeting since announcing that FIFA will send a senior official to lead a clean up of the ...
The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system will be introduced from the quarter-final stage of the Africa Cup of Nations, increasing the possibility of ...
A South African man who won the chance to be the first black African in space has died in a motorbike crash before turning his dream into reality, his ...
Ministers from across Africa began work Thursday ahead of a weekend summit to formally launch a free-trade agreement hailed by the continent’s ...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the landmark African free trade agreement during the upcoming African Union meeting in Niger, his office ...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino is facing opposition from one of his deputies over a plan to appoint secretary general Fatma Samoura to an additional ...
Undaunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to ...
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