NAIROBI: Kenya's health minister said on Friday the government had suspended all in-person meetings and public gatherings to try to contain COVID-19, whose...
NAIROBI: Kenya's health minister said on Friday the government had suspended all in-person meetings and public gatherings to try to contain COVID-19, whose...
DAKAR: Idrissa Lo rushed back to Senegal from the United States when family members started falling sick with COVID-19 and dying. On Wednesday,...
NAIROBI: Kenyan wildlife authorities said on Wednesday they had captured a lion that had wandered into a residential area in a town south...
NAIROBI: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan received her COVID-19 vaccine in public on Wednesday, in the most decisive signal yet of a break...
HARARE: Zimbabwe has authorised the emergency use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, the first Western-made shot to be approved by the southern...
ALGIERS - Algeria will reimpose restrictions on gatherings from Monday to cope with a rapid spread of the more infectious Delta variant of...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa on Sunday lifted restrictions and the movement of people between provinces as President Cyril Ramaphosa said a third wave...
South Africa’s government said a third wave of coronavirus infections has passed its peak, a development that could give it scope to ease...
NAIROBI: Africa, battling a severe third wave of COVID-19 infections, will start to receive the first batch of 400 million doses of vaccines...
DAKAR: Dangling from umber cliffs that tower over Africa's westernmost shoreline, a crew of Senegalese climbers hunt for footholds that they say are...
Khartoum: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) announced the implementation of the sacrifice project, on the first day of Eid Al Adha for the...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa aims to have given at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine to 35 million of its 60 million people...
Pfizer and BioNTech have struck a deal for South Africa's Biovac Institute to help manufacture around 100 million doses a year of their...
BAMAKO: Mali's interim President Assimi Goita was the target of an attempted stabbing attack during Eid al-Adha prayers at Bamako's Grand Mosque, the...
DAKAR: With COVID-19 cases surging across Senegal, Pape Gueye made the difficult decision to spend the first Eid al-Adha of his life apart...
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia has completed filling the reservoir of its huge dam on the Blue Nile river for a second year, a minister...
LAGOS: Nigeria has put six states on red alert after seeing a "worrisome" rise in COVID-19 infections, a government official said, urging people...
GENEVA: Nearly 50 African countries are to receive 25 million COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the United States, with the first shipments to...
