Brussels: A World Health Organization-led programme to ensure poorer countries get fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments aims to secure antiviral...
Brussels: A World Health Organization-led programme to ensure poorer countries get fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments aims to secure antiviral...
BUJUMBURA - Burundi on Monday rolled out its first COVID-19 vaccines, months after most African countries, the latest step in the East African...
Johannesburg: South Africa's drugs regulator said on Monday that it was not approving an emergency use application for Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 shot...
CAPE TOWN: In South Africa's Franschhoek mountains a helicopter drops off abseilers to cut down invasive pine trees that are choking off water...
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo: Three new Ebola cases have been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the total to five...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast: Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo launched a new political party Saturday, formally breaking ties with those who ran his former...
CAPE TOWN: South Africa will start vaccinating children between the ages of 12 and 17 next week using the Pfizer vaccine, the health...
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo: A second case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a health official said...
BENI, Congo: Residents of the eastern Congolese city of Beni expressed concern Saturday, after receiving the news that a new case of Ebola...
LONDON: Moderna plans to invest about $500 million to build a factory in Africa to make up to 500 million doses of mRNA...
The first vaccine for malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills about 400,000 people each year, is set to be deployed more widely after...
DAKAR: Senegal on Monday logged only two new daily COVID-19 infections, the lowest number since the pandemic reached the country and two months...
CAPE TOWN - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has eased restrictions aimed at combating the coronavirus pandemic to the country's lowest alert level,...
GENEVA/NAIROBI - Only 15 of Africa's 54 nations have fully vaccinated 10% of their populations against COVID-19 and many frontline health workers remain...
ACCRA, Ghana – Ghana on Sunday received 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from Germany. Deputy Health Minister Mahama Asei Seini...
KHARTOUM: Protesters in eastern Sudan shut a pipeline that carries imported crude oil to the capital Khartoum, but there are enough reserves for...
MOGADISHU: A suicide car bomb killed at least eight people in the Somali capital on Saturday at a street junction near the president's...
JOHANNESBURG - Jubilant South African Airways (SAA) staff at the country's biggest airport broke into song and dance on Thursday as the airline...
