JUBA: Severe flooding has hit South Sudan's northern state of Unity, cutting off communities from accessing supplies of food and other vital commodities,...
JUBA: Severe flooding has hit South Sudan's northern state of Unity, cutting off communities from accessing supplies of food and other vital commodities,...
CAPE TOWN: South Africa is being hit by a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant which has been detected...
GABORONE: Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi said some of the four diplomats who first tested positive for the Omicron coronavirus variant in the country...
HARARE- Zimbabwe has detected case of Omicron variant in the country, its Vice President Constantino Chiwenga said on Thursday on state television. "We...
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...