LAGOS- Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos said on Wednesday it will ban motorcycle taxis from operating in most of the traffic-clogged city, removing a...
LAGOS- Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos said on Wednesday it will ban motorcycle taxis from operating in most of the traffic-clogged city, removing a...
CAPE TOWN: Mozambique on Wednesday declared a polio outbreak after the virus was detected in a child living in the northeastern Tete region,...
Microplastics are now widely present in the drinking water of Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, a newly published study finds. The tiny...
Malian authorities have arrested suspects after an announcement by the ruling junta that it had foiled a coup attempt supported by an unnamed...
Clashes rocked libya's capital early on Tuesday as the parliament-appointed prime minister, Fathi Bashagha, tried to take over government there but was forced...
President Joe Biden has authorized the US military to send Special Operations troops back to Somalia on a "persistent” basis to revive a...
Ethiopia and the World Bank have signed a pact for a grant of $300 million to assist reconstruction and recovery in conflict-hit areas,...
Somalia’s president progressed to the next round of the nation’s presidential elections, though his bid to become the nation’s first leader to be...
Nigeria's Sokoto state has declared an immediate 24-hour curfew to quell protests demanding the release of suspects in the killing of Deborah Samuel...
Johannesburg: South Africais experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. For about three weeks...
JOHANNESBURG: Global warming made the heavy rains behind South Africa's devastating floods last month twice as likely as they would have been if...
JOHANNESBURG- International agencies and charitable foundations providing COVID-19 vaccines for Africa should order African-made vaccines, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told a global...
The land borders between Morocco and Spain's North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla will reopen next week, Spain said Thursday, after being...
Somalia is set to hold its long-delayed presidential vote on Sunday, ending the convoluted electoral process that raised tensions in the country when...
NAIROBI: A former moderator working for Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc on Tuesday filed a lawsuit alleging that poor working conditions for contracted...
JOHANNESBURG/LONDON- The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVID-19 vaccine partner Gavi have no immediate plans to buy shots made by Aspen Pharmacare,...
Dozens of people were killed and many more are missing after armed men raided a mining encampment near the town of Mongwalu in...
Nigeria will become the first nation to ground flights on Monday as surging prices for aviation fuel make business unprofitable. Airline operators "will...
