Africa

Papua New Guinea reported on Friday its largest daily jump in COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, with infections spreading...

Two people in Niger have died in post-election violence and hundreds have been arrested, the government said Thursday, accusing a...

South Africa is targeting an ambitious plan to vaccinate one million people against Covid-19 by the end of March after...

Two people in Niger have died in post-election violence and hundreds have been arrested, the government said Thursday, accusing a...

Algeria has received 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from longstanding ally China, the official APS news agency said Thursday,...

Ghanaian authorities have shut an LGBT resource centre that was recently opened in the country’s capital, Accra, following a public...

A leading member of Benin’s opposition has been held and brought before a special court, the government said, as critics...

Zambian police on Wednesday said they had arrested an officer on murder charges over the deadly shooting of two anti-government...

Ghana became the first country to receive vaccines from the global Covax scheme on Wednesday, paving the way for poorer...

The body of the Italian ambassador killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in Rome late Tuesday, as Rwandan...