WINDHOEK - Namibia has detected a new strain of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the country that has infected thousands of cattle, the agriculture...
WINDHOEK - Namibia has detected a new strain of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the country that has infected thousands of cattle, the agriculture...
Uganda plans to start offering the Pfizer Inc. coronavirus vaccine starting next week after receiving 1.67 million doses from the U.S. The shots...
CONAKRY - An outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Guinea is officially over, health authorities said on Thursday, less than six weeks...
Nairobi: A tall grey crowned crane with an injured leg struts through a bird sanctuary in the Rwandan capital Kigali. The Umusambi Village...
Dakar: West African leaders will meet on Thursday to decide how to respond to the coup in Guinea and how to pressure the...
GENEVA - The African Union on Tuesday accused manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines of denying African countries a fair chance to buy them, and...
Abuja: Heavily armed gunmen raided a jail in south-central Nigeria late on Sunday and freed 240 inmates - almost everyone in the prison,...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa will ease COVID-19 restrictions and shorten its nationwide curfew from Monday after a decline in infections, President Cyril Ramaphosa...
Johhannesburg: South Africa's health regulator has approved Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for use by children aged 12 and older, paving the way for the...
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa on Friday started vaccinating some children and adolescents as part of the global Phase 3 clinical trials of China’s Sinovac...
JOHANNESBURG - China's Sinovac Biotech is in talks about setting up a vaccine production facility in South Africa with its local partner, the...
JOHANNESBURG: China's Sinovac Biotech will trial its COVID-19 vaccine in children and adolescents in South Africa as part of a global Phase III...
Cape Town: Five youths from Cape Town's Langa township squeeze into wetsuits for a snorkelling lesson with South Africa's first Black diving coach...
ADDIS ABABA: Rebellious forces from the Tigray region killed 120 civilians over two days in a village in Ethiopia's Amhara region, local officials...
Kinshas: A meningitis outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo's north-eastern Tshopo province has killed 129 of the 267 people who have been infected...
YENAGOA, Nigeria: The governor of Rivers State in Nigeria's oil-producing Delta region said he may be forced to reimpose COVID-19 lockdown measures if...
HARARE: Government workers in Zimbabwe who do not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should resign, its justice minister said on Tuesday. The...
South African scientists said a new variant, with a concerning number of mutations, spread at a slower rate last month than in July. ...
