DR Congo reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in its northwest on Monday, the latest health emergency for a country already fighting an epidemic of the deadly...
Scores of people lined up outside liquor stores in South Africa’s township of Soweto on Monday, waiting to stock up on drinks after a nine-week ban...
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana has lifted the ban on social gatherings such as weddings in the country following the ease of the lockdown occasioned by...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday touted Africa as a key player in global manufacturing as the world adapts to changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic....
A fire tore through an overcrowded maximum-security prison in Cameroon’s port city of Douala on Thursday. This led to the hospitalization of three prisoners with serious...
A COVID-19 isolation center in Bangladesh went up in flames yesterday, killing five people. The fire was said to have started in a makeshift isolation unit...
World Health Organisation (WHO) is worried Africa could face a “silent epidemic” if its leaders fail to prioritize testing for it. AFRICA has so far been...
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa has informed South Africans that the country’s coronavirus outbreak is going to get much worse, while announcing that lockdown measures are...
Burundi’s ruling party presidential candidate Evariste Ndayishimiye on Monday was declared the victor of the bitterly disputed election, with 68.72 percent of the vote. The election...
Operations at the world’s deepest gold mine, in South Africa, have been halted after 164 cases of coronavirus were detected there.Operations at the world’s deepest gold...