Yenagoa, Nigeria: More than 1,800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using...
Yenagoa, Nigeria: More than 1,800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using...
Johannesburg: South Africa has signed an agreement with Pfizer Inc for 20 million dual shot COVID-19 vaccine doses, a government official told Reuters...
NAIROBI - Kenya Airways will suspend flights to the United Kingdom effective April 9, the airline said in a statement. The announcement comes...
MOGADISHU: Al Shabaab Islamist militants attacked two Somali National Army bases on Saturday and the army said there had been casualties on both...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenya has ordered an immediate suspension on private importations of vaccines citing fears that it may lead to counterfeit inoculations getting...
ADDIS ABABA - India's temporary hold on major exports of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot will undermine Africa's vaccination plans, and could have a "catastrophic"...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's health regulator has approved Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, paving the way for large-scale deliveries of the shot the...
JOHANNESBURG: Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday that South Africa's health regulator had registered its COVID-19 vaccine, paving the way for deliveries to...
ABUJA - Nigeria hopes to receive up to 70 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this year through the African...
CAPE TOWN: South Africa's government on Tuesday released a revised climate change policy document for public comment, significantly reducing the upper limit target...
Ethiopia expects to received a consignment of 300,000 doses of the China-backed Sinopharm vaccines on March 30, according to Health Minister Lia Tadesse....
Nairobi, Kenya: Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former U.S. President Barack Obama's Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday. She was...
Johnson & Johnson will supply up to 220 million doses of its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine to African Union's 55 member states from the...
NAIROBI: Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta restricted travel in the capital Nairobi and four other counties on Friday as COVID-19 infections hit record levels...
NAIROBI - Five people from the same family have died in Tanzania in a stampede that occurred at a stadium in the port...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has concluded the sale of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines it had acquired but did not use to other African Union...
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo: Republic of Congo pressed ahead Sunday with an election in which President Denis Sassou N'Guesso is widely expected to...
Tanzania's Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan was due to be sworn in as president on Friday, a government official said, an historic move...
