JOHANNESBURG: Unvaccinated people infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus may be less prone to severe illness and requiring hospital care or dying...
JOHANNESBURG: Unvaccinated people infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus may be less prone to severe illness and requiring hospital care or dying...
DAKAR: Senegal has authorized COVID-19 vaccines for children over 12 and booster shots for adults, the health ministry said on Thursday, as vaccine...
Africa's top public health body said it was in talks with Pfizer about securing supplies of its antiviral COVID-19 pills for the continent,...
GABORONE: Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi has left isolation just over a week after testing positive for COVID-19 without symptoms, the government said on...
JOHANNESBURG- Preliminary findings from two South African clinical trials suggest the Omicron coronavirus variant has a much higher rate of "asymptomatic carriage" than...
NAIROBI: Power supply has been restored in most parts of Kenya, which earlier experienced a nationwide outage after a high voltage transmission line...
Mali shut its borders and recalled several ambassadors after West Africa’s economic bloc imposed sanctions on the gold-producing country for refusing to hold...
JOHANNESBURG: Floods around South Africa's eastern coastal city of East London have killed at least 10 people and left hundreds homeless since the...
Kampala, Uganda: Uganda's schools reopened to students on Monday, ending the world's longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reopening caused...
MAPUTO- Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi's PCR results came back negative for COVID-19 after Nyusi and his wife Isaura tested positive via rapid tests...
Cairo: The Algerian ambassador to France will return to Paris on Jan. 6, after being recalled for consultations in October, Algerian state TV...
NOUAKCHOTT- Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani was displaying mild symptoms of COVID-19 on Tuesday after testing positive, the presidency said on Tuesday. Ghazouani,...
CAPE TOWN: A new blaze at the complex housing South Africa's parliament in Cape Town has been contained, officials said on Tuesday, as...
CAPE TOWN- A new blaze broke out on Monday at the complex housing the two chambers of South Africa's national parliament in Cape...
CAIRO: A Tunisian military helicopter crashed in the north of the country, killing the pilot and the co-pilot, the state news agency reported...
NIAMEY: Police in northern Niger have seized more than 200 kg of cocaine worth around $8.7 million that was being transported in the...
Cape Town: South African police said on Monday they had charged a man with arson over a fire that caused extensive damage to...
A fire erupted at the South African parliament in Cape Town on Sunday, with media coverage showing flames coming from the roof of...
