JOHANNESBURG- The new Omicron variant of the coronavirus poses a threefold higher risk of reinfection than the currently dominant Delta variant and the...
JOHANNESBURG- The new Omicron variant of the coronavirus poses a threefold higher risk of reinfection than the currently dominant Delta variant and the...
JOHANNESBURG- The Omicron variant has been detected in five out of nine South African provinces and accounted for 74% of the virus genomes...
London: Nigeria's Lagos State rejected findings by a judicial panel that security forces carried out a "massacre" of unarmed protesters last year, maintaining...
JOHANNESBURG- The Omicron coronavirus variant detected in southern Africa could be the most likely candidate to displace the highly contagious Delta variant, the...
Symptoms linked to the omicron coronavirus variant have been "pretty mild” so far, according to a Covid-19 adviser to the South Africa government....
ACCRA- Ghana will ramp up its COVID-19 inoculation campaign next month and make the vaccine mandatory for targeted groups including all public sector...
NAIROBI: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greatly concerned about ethiopia's military escalation and called for urgent negotiations over the crisis, a...
Johannesburg: As the world grapples with the emergence of the new highly transmissible variant of COVID-19, worried scientists in South Africa - where...
NAIROBI: Mauritius will suspend all commercial passenger flights from South Africa from Nov. 28 due to the new coronavirus variant Omicron, its foreign...
ALGIERS, Algeria:Algerians are voting Saturday to elect mayors and regional leaders amid widespread worry and frustration over rising prices for basic goods, housing...
What is this new Covid-19 variant? South African scientists identified a new version of the coronavirus this week that they say is behind...
Johannesburg: South Africa said on today it was being punished for its advanced ability to detect new COVID-19 variants early, as travel bans...
PARIS: Protesters in Niger blocked a French military convoy on Saturday shortly after it crossed the border from Burkina Faso, where it had...
CAIRO: Morocco banned entry to travellers arriving from South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Zimbabwe due to concerns related to the...
JOHANNESBURG- South Africa said on Friday a British ban on flights from six southern African countries over a new COVID-19 variant seemed rushed,...
World Health Organization officials met on Thursday to discuss a new coronavirus variant circulating in South Africa and Botswana. The new variant, called...
Mogadishu: At least eight people were killed in Somalia's capital on Thursday when Islamist militants launched a suicide attack on a U.N. security...
Ethiopia’s government said today that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has gone to the battlefront to take charge in the country’s yearlong war and...
