Browsing: Africa

Violence in northwest Nigeria has forced about 23,000 refugees to flee to Niger since April and raised concerns about the…

Torrential rains have triggered devastating floods and landslides across East Africa in recent weeks, aggravating an already challenging situation as countries in the region battle the coronavirus pandemic.

A court in Bahirdar, northern Ethiopia, has sentenced the country’s former communications minister and close ally of late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to six years in prison for corruption

South Africa has placed around 12 percent of its prison population on parole to combat the spread of coronavirus in correctional facilities, the presidency said

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Nigeria’s Dr Akinwumi Adesina, over the clean bill…

The ECOWAS Commission has dismissed reports that its health institution, West Africa Health Organisation had ordered medicine developed by the…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the number of reported COVID-19 cases in Africa increased from 46,500 to 49,000 in the past 24 hours.

Comoros has announced its first coronavirus case. President Azali Assoumani said the patient is a man who came in contact…

More than one million people have now officially recovered from Covid-19, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University on…

Kenyans have rallied to the aid of a widow filmed cooking stones for her eight children to make them believe…