HARARE - Russia and China have approached Zimbabwe about supplying vaccines to tackle its escalating COVID-19 outbreak amid concern about Harare's ability to...
HARARE - Russia and China have approached Zimbabwe about supplying vaccines to tackle its escalating COVID-19 outbreak amid concern about Harare's ability to...
JOHANNESBURG: The Mozambican port city of Beira breathed a sigh of relief Saturday as Cyclone Eloise caused less damage than feared as it...
RABAT: Morocco received 2 million doses of Astrazeneca's COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, becoming the first African country to get a large enough shipment...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa will pay $5.25 per dose for 1.5 million shots of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine from the Serum Institute of India...
CAIRO: Britain’s foreign secretary was in the Sudanese capital Thursday to discuss bilateral relations and tensions along the border with Ethiopia, Sudan's state...
JOHANNESBURG - The new COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa can evade the antibodies that attack it in treatments using blood plasma from...
NAIROBI - Britain said on Wednesday it was helping Kenya prepare to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Astrazeneca and Oxford University,...
NAIROBI/KAMPALA: When Uganda ordered an internet shutdown on the eve of the presidential election, groundnut seller Susan Tafumba's trade collapsed. The 34-year-old sells...
HARARE, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo, who gained prominence in 2017 as the military general who announced the coup against then-president Robert...
Nairobi: Britain said on Wednesday it was helping Kenya prepare to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, as...
Rabat: Morocco’s health ministry confirmed on Monday its first imported case of the more contagious variant of the novel coronavirus first discovered in...
South Africa’s genomic scientists have found the new coronavirus variant driving the country’s resurgence of new cases is about 50% more transmissible than...
ABUJA - Nigeria has written to the African Union to request 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to supplement the COVAX programme and has...
JOHANNESBURG - Scientists have new biological evidence that the so-called South African coronavirus variant binds more readily and strongly to human cells, making...
Johannesburg: From a women-only driving school to an all-female taxi service - a South African activist-turned-entrepreneur is tackling high rates of sexual assault...
KAMPALA, Uganda: Uganda’s electoral commission says longtime President Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term while top opposition challenger Bobi Wine alleges rigging...
Dakar: Senegal is rushing to provide more hospital beds for coronavirus patients as infections soar and a lack of capacity means doctors are...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has secured 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines which are expected to be delivered mainly in the first half...
