World / Africa

BANJUL: Gambia on Tuesday ordered importers and shops to suspend sales of all brands of paracetamol syrup while the government investigates a suspected...

Cape Town: Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines plans to start human trials of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate by May, part of a World Health...

NAIROBI: William Ruto was sworn as Kenya's fifth president on Tuesday, taking the helm a week after the country's top court threw out...

A number of people were crushed and injured as Kenyans on Tuesday forced their way into a stadium where William Ruto will be...

The Somali National Army assisted by the local civilians have liberated at least twenty towns in Galmudug, Hirshabelle and South West States from...

The Tigray forces battling Ethiopian troops say they’re willing to abide by an immediate cessation of hostilities and participate in a peace process...

BAMAKO: Members of an Islamic State affiliate in Mali killed about 30 civilians in an attack this week on a town in a...

BAMAKO: Mali's interim president wants a mutually beneficial solution to end a diplomatic row over 46 Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali, noting that...

BENI: Suspected militiamen carrying guns and knives killed at least 15 people and burned hundreds of houses during an attack overnight on a...

HARARE, Zimbabwe:The World Health Organization on Thursday said it is launching a $1.5 billion campaign, hopefully including a new vaccine, to eliminate outbreaks...

JUBA: Frantic civilians are drowning as they flee a new eruption in fighting in South Sudan and perhaps hundreds have died in the...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo: Sharply-suited dignitaries gathered to inaugurate a footbridge in the Congolese capital on Monday only for the structure to...

MOMBASA: The former Irish President has called on African nations to pile on the pressure on rich, heavily-polluting countries to fulfill their climate...

South Africa announced its first rolling blackouts in almost three weeks on Tuesday, hours after the nation’s statistics office published data that showed...

At least 35 civilians were killed and 37 injured in northernBurkina Faso yesterdaywhen a vehicle in a convoy hit an improvised explosive device...

MOGADISHU: The United Nations says "famine is at the door” in Somalia with "concrete indications” famine will occur later this year in the...

Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the Aug. 9 election of William Ruto as president in a unanimous decision, Chief Justice Martha Koome...

ABIDJAN: Three female Ivorian soldiers arrived home late on Saturday after being detained for nearly two months in Mali, while 46 others remain...