JOHANNESBURG- Early hospital data from South Africa shows less than a third of patients admitted for COVID-19 during the latest wave linked to...
JOHANNESBURG- Early hospital data from South Africa shows less than a third of patients admitted for COVID-19 during the latest wave linked to...
Dakar: West African armies need a new strategy to combat the growing jihadist threat because improved technologies have given militants the upper hand...
KIGALI- South Africa's Biovac Institute will start making Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine early next year after receiving the drug substance from Europe, a Pfizer...
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa is preparing its hospitals for more admissions, as the Omicron coronavirus variant pushes the country into a fourth wave of...
Gambian President Adama Barrow secured a second term as leader of the West African nation in the biggest test of its democracy since...
DAKAR: Senegal has recorded its first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in a tourist who attended a demonstration in the...
LAGOS: Nigeria will start vaccine booster shots from next week for COVID-19, a senior official said, after the country confirmed its first cases...
LUSAKA: Zambia has detected its first cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant in three people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the past...
Johannesburg:Higher hospital admissions among children during a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections in South Africa that is driven by the Omicron variant should...
JUBA: Severe flooding has hit South Sudan's northern state of Unity, cutting off communities from accessing supplies of food and other vital commodities,...
CAPE TOWN: South Africa is being hit by a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant which has been detected...
GABORONE: Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi said some of the four diplomats who first tested positive for the Omicron coronavirus variant in the country...
HARARE- Zimbabwe has detected case of Omicron variant in the country, its Vice President Constantino Chiwenga said on Thursday on state television. "We...
JOHANNESBURG- The new Omicron variant of the coronavirus poses a threefold higher risk of reinfection than the currently dominant Delta variant and the...
JOHANNESBURG- The Omicron variant has been detected in five out of nine South African provinces and accounted for 74% of the virus genomes...
London: Nigeria's Lagos State rejected findings by a judicial panel that security forces carried out a "massacre" of unarmed protesters last year, maintaining...
JOHANNESBURG- The Omicron coronavirus variant detected in southern Africa could be the most likely candidate to displace the highly contagious Delta variant, the...
Symptoms linked to the omicron coronavirus variant have been "pretty mild” so far, according to a Covid-19 adviser to the South Africa government....
