A judicial panel probing runaway graft on Monday asked South Africa’s top court to jail ex-president Jacob Zuma for two years for defying a court order...
Niger will choose between two heavyweights in a presidential run-off vote on Sunday set to bring about the first democratic transition of power in the coup-prone...
The coronavirus death toll on the African continent surpassed 100,000 on Friday, as African countries struggled to obtain vaccines to counteract the pandemic. South Africa alone...
South Africa suspended its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 Sunday after a new study revealed that the AstraZeneca vaccine is less effective against a variant of the...
DR Congo on Sunday announced a “resurgence” of Ebola in its troubled east after a woman died of the disease, just three months after authorities declared...
For the dozens of women training at a shooting range near Johannesburg, learning how to use a gun has become a means of protection in a...
Chad’s ruling party on Saturday endorsed President Idriss Deby Itno’s bid for a sixth term in an April election. Deby, a 68-year-old former army chief who...
President Joe Biden on Friday promised partnership with Africa and said he hoped to attend the next African Union summit, an about-face in US interest in a...
The World Bank said Monday it was suspending the first tranche of $100 million in a programme to fund free schools in DR Congo over “fraud...
Ghana has reimposed a ban on social gatherings as the number of COVID-19 cases spiral in the country, the president, Nana Akufo-Addo, announced Sunday. Schools reopened...
Ghana is on course to get at least 17.6 million people vaccinated against COVID-19 pandemic by the end of June, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said. In...
Egypt said Saturday the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca would arrive on Sunday. The Egyptian authority in charge of...