ALGIERS: Four people were killed and three injured on Monday night in wildfires in mountainous areas east of the Algerian capital, Algiers, state...
ALGIERS: Four people were killed and three injured on Monday night in wildfires in mountainous areas east of the Algerian capital, Algiers, state...
CONAKRY - Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the World...
Lusaka: Zambia's President Edgar Lungu will seek to fend off a perennial opposition challenger in a vote on Thursday that may be decided...
Harare, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls usually teems with tourists who come to marvel at the roaring Zambezi River as it tumbles down more...
JOHANNESBURG - Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine is working well in South Africa, offering protection against severe disease and death, the co-head of...
JOHANNESBURG: The cars lined up by the strikingly modern mosque and were guided to parking bays where the drivers soon got jabs. The...
LAGOS - Officials in Nigeria - a hub for illegal wildlife trafficking - have seized a record amount of pangolin scales and claws...
ABUJA - Nigeria has received 4 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States government, its health minister said on...
RABAT - Morocco will lengthen its night curfew, starting two hours earlier at 9 p.m. (2000 GMT) from Tuesday, as it tightens restrictions...
Kenya approved the emergency use of Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Inc. Covid-19 vaccines, said Fred Siyoi, chief executive officer of the Pharmacy...
KANO, Nigeria: Nigeria has been hit by a surge in cholera cases in recent weeks, focused on the country's north and adding to...
NAIROBI: Kenya's health minister said on Friday the government had suspended all in-person meetings and public gatherings to try to contain COVID-19, whose...
DAKAR: Idrissa Lo rushed back to Senegal from the United States when family members started falling sick with COVID-19 and dying. On Wednesday,...
NAIROBI: Kenyan wildlife authorities said on Wednesday they had captured a lion that had wandered into a residential area in a town south...
NAIROBI: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan received her COVID-19 vaccine in public on Wednesday, in the most decisive signal yet of a break...
HARARE: Zimbabwe has authorised the emergency use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, the first Western-made shot to be approved by the southern...
ALGIERS - Algeria will reimpose restrictions on gatherings from Monday to cope with a rapid spread of the more infectious Delta variant of...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa on Sunday lifted restrictions and the movement of people between provinces as President Cyril Ramaphosa said a third wave...