Africa

Armed men in southwestern Niger killed at least 58 people when they intercepted a convoy returning from a weekly market and attacked a nearby village, the government said. The attacks...

Jesus Nguema Nguema spent 12 desperate hours waiting for news of his family after a series of explosions on March 7 in Equatorial Guinea’s city of Bata destroyed his neighbourhood while...

Pretoria – Several NGOs, including Lawyers for Human Rights, have called on the government not to forget undocumented people living in South Africa in its Covid-19 vaccine rollout programme. Lawyers...

BERLIN - Almost six years ago Tareq Alaows drifted across the Aegean in a rubber boat before walking most of the way from Athens to Vienna. Now the migrant who...

TRIPOLI - Libya’s designated prime minister, chosen via a U.N.-facilitated process last month, said on Thursday he had proposed a governing plan to the country’s divided parliament as part of...

JERUSALEM - Israel has frozen its programme to send COVID-19 vaccines abroad to buy international goodwill, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Thursday, after the initiative came under legal scrutiny....

Algeria said on Sunday it had discussed with Russia the possibility of producing Moscow’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. Talks to manufacture the vaccine in Algeria took place during a meeting between...

Zimbabwe’s Vice President Constantino Chiwenga says government has begun the process of acquiring COVID-19 vaccines. On Wednesday, Chiwenga presided over the burials of Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo, Transport Minister Joel...

Forty people in the Gambia confirmed as coronavirus positive in the past week have refused to self-isolate or escaped treatment centers, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday, promising to reveal...

ZANU-PF Spokesperson Kennedy Mandaza says Zimbabweans are sad after the passing of Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo. Moyo died after contracting COVID-19. The senior government official had tested positive for...