HARARE - Zimbabwe will begin vaccinating against COVID-19 on Thursday, starting with health workers and other essential service personnel, the cabinet announced on...
HARARE - Zimbabwe will begin vaccinating against COVID-19 on Thursday, starting with health workers and other essential service personnel, the cabinet announced on...
Conakry: The World Health Organization has asked six African countries to be alert for possible Ebola infections, as Guinea on Tuesday reported new...
Conakry: Guinea is tracking down people who potentially came in contact with Ebola patients and will rush out vaccines to the area as...
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe is preparing to receive its first delivery of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, saying the shipment will first undergo "rigorous...
CAPE TOWN - South Africa has secured millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Inc vaccines to fight the highly infectious...
JOHANNESBURG: Pfizer said it could deliver its COVID-19 vaccine, which requires ultra-cold temperatures for storage and distribution, directly to points of vaccination in...
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's health minister said on Wednesday that the country would vaccinate health workers with Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine in the...
CAPE TOWN - South Africa's joint lead investigator for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine trial said on Tuesday that a government regulator...
MBABANE - eSwatini will no longer use AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, its health minister said on Tuesday, after a trial showed it gave minimal...
GENEVA: South Africa will roll out the AstraZeneca vaccine in a "stepped manner" to assess its efficacy in preventing severe illness, Professor Salim...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa will suspend the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot in its vaccination programme after data showed it gave minimal protection...
KINSHASA - A woman has contracted Ebola and died in a new case of the virus detected in the eastern Democratic Republic of...
BRAZZAVILLE - China will donate 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Congo Republic and forgive $13 million in public debt, its ambassador to...
HARARE - Zimbabwe will receive 200,000 free doses of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday, after China and Russia...
KAMPALA: Uganda has ordered 18 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and up to 40% of the shipments are expected...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's first coronavirus vaccine doses arrived by airplane on Monday, offering some relief for health workers who have been stretched...
Mogadishu: Nine people died after al Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgents stormed a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, battling security forces until the early...
NOUAKCHOTT - About 245 pelican chicks and two dozen adult pelicans have died from H5N1 bird flu in a Mauritanian national park bordering...