World / Africa

Africa needs fairness and vaccines to revive its tourism sector - minister 16 Jul 2021 - 05:06 pm

NAIROBI: African countries need to get equal access to COVID-19 vaccines so they can start rebuilding their devastated tourism industries, Kenya's tourism minister...

Ramaphosa to visit worst-hit province as South Africa violence eases 16 Jul 2021 - 12:51 pm

JOHANNESBURG - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was due to visit KwaZulu-Natal province - one of the flashpoints of a spasm of violence...

South Africa violence, looting ebbs but death toll up to 117 15 Jul 2021 - 07:51 pm

JOHANNESBURG - South Africans counted the cost on Thursday of arson and looting that has destroyed hundreds of businesses and killed at least...

WHO says COVID-19 deaths surge 43% week-on-week in Africa 15 Jul 2021 - 02:24 pm

DAKAR: Africa recorded a 43% rise in COVID-19 deaths this week compared with last week as infections and hospital admissions have jumped and...

Zimbabwe targets 1 million people in COVID-19 vaccine blitz 13 Jul 2021 - 07:58 pm

HARARE - Zimbabwe is aiming to vaccinate 1 million people against COVID-19 in the next two weeks, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Tuesday...

In South African COVID-19 ward, medics battle worst infection wave yet 13 Jul 2021 - 11:40 am

JOHANNESBURG: At an emergency COVID-19 ward run by a charity in southern Johannesburg, medics wheel gasping patients to their beds, rush from room...

Nigeria's Lagos state faces "potential third wave" of COVID-19 12 Jul 2021 - 12:54 pm

LAGOS: Nigeria's Lagos state faces a "potential third wave" of coronovirus infections, its governor said in a statement. He warned of fines or...

South Africa extends tight COVID-19 restrictions for another 14 days 11 Jul 2021 - 10:32 pm

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa extended tight COVID-19 rules on Sunday for another 14 days, maintaining restrictions that include a ban on gatherings, a...

Ethiopia PM Abiy's party wins landslide victory in parliamentary election 10 Jul 2021 - 09:04 pm

ADDIS ABABA: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party won the most seats in Ethiopia's parliamentary election, the election board said on Saturday, a...

Libya closes borders with Tunisia for a week due to rise in coronavirus cases 09 Jul 2021 - 12:12 am

TRIPOLI - Libya's new unity government on Thursday announced it was closing its borders with Tunisia for a week due to the rise...

Belgium begins long road to returning looted Congolese art works 06 Jul 2021 - 05:47 pm

TERVUREN, Belgium: Belgium's Africa Museum, once a celebration of the country's colonial rule, will begin a multi-year process of returning stolen art to...

South Africa's new coronavirus cases surge to record levels 04 Jul 2021 - 09:15 pm

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's resurgence of COVID-19 is setting record numbers of new daily cases, centered in Johannesburg and driven by the delta...

South Africa's Zuma marches with supporters opposed to his jailing 03 Jul 2021 - 06:35 pm

NKANDLA, South Africa: Hundreds of supporters of Jacob Zuma marched alongside the former South African president in his hometown of Nkandla on Saturday,...

Driven by delta variant, COVID-19 surges across Africa 02 Jul 2021 - 08:38 pm

JOHANNESBURG: Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions, and...

Six fully vaccinated people died of Covid-19 in most-vaccinated nation 01 Jul 2021 - 08:12 pm

The coronavirus has killed six fully vaccinated people in the Seychelles, which is suffering heightened Covid-19 infections despite inoculating a greater proportion of...

Africa faces worst week of pandemic as delta variant spreads 01 Jul 2021 - 03:09 pm

Coronavirus cases in Africa are rising so quickly that the continent will soon face its worst week since the start of the pandemic,...

Kenya to start receiving 13 mln J&J shots in August -president 29 Jun 2021 - 08:03 pm

NAIROBI - Kenya will receive the first batch of 13 million COVID-19 vaccine shots from Johnson & Johnson in August, President Uhuru Kenyatta...

Nigeria adds South Africa to its COVID-19 'red list' for arriving travellers 28 Jun 2021 - 09:50 pm

ABUJA - Nigeria is adding South Africa to its "red list" of countries for which there are stringent restrictions for arriving passengers, officials...