China’s President Xi Jinping on Monday pledged to offer one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa, in a speech made via videolink to a China-Africa summit...
Protesters in Niger blocked a French military convoy Saturday shortly after it crossed the border from Burkina Faso, where it had been stuck for a week...
South Africa said on Saturday it was being punished for its advanced ability to detect new COVID-19 variants early, as travel bans and restrictions imposed because...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said his soldiers would “destroy” rebels from the northern Tigray region, in the latest instalment of state media footage purportedly showing...
Canada will be banning the entry of all foreign nationals who have travelled through southern Africa in the last 14 days as concerns over a new...
Five people were killed and over a dozen injured in a bombing near a school in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, a security official said, in...
Kenya will require people seeking government services to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus from Dec. 21 as authorities move to increase inoculation before the year-end...
Two loud explosions rocked Uganda’s capital, Kampala, early Tuesday, sparking chaos and confusion as people fled what is widely believed to be coordinated attacks. One blast...
Libyan National Army commander Khalifa Haftar will run in Libya’s presidential elections due next month, he announced in a televised speech on Tuesday. “Elections are the...
Ethiopian staff working for the United Nations or African Union do not live “in space” and will be punished for any lawbreaking, the government said on...
Nigerian security agents have rescued six people abducted by armed men from a university in Abuja this week, in what was a rare kidnapping at a...