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New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) has shown that COVID-19 cases in Africa are surging by over 20 percent week-on-week as the continent’s third wave gains pace and nears the first wave peak of more…

Zambian President Edgar Lungu has declared 21 days of national mourning in honour of the country’s first President Kenneth Kaunda, who died on Thursday. Secretary…

Kenneth Kaunda, the founding president of Zambia, has died at the age of 97. The former president’s death was announced by Zambian media on Thursday afternoon. He was on…

South Africa, which is struggling to roll out its inoculation programme as it enters a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, said Sunday it will pull millions of doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine…

South Africa has officially entered its third wave of coronavirus infections, health authorities said, with rising caseloads and a sluggish vaccine rollout fuelling fears of…

Mali’S military commander Assimi Goita, who removed a transitional president and prime minister last month, has been sworn into office as the new interim president despite facing a diplomatic backlash over his second…

Nine people died in a gold mine collapse in northern Ghana this week, police said Thursday as rescue operations continue. Accidents in small-scale gold mining,…

Hit by a fresh surge of infections and with vaccine deliveries at a near standstill, Africa is not ready to face a third wave of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Thursday. “Many African hospitals…

Rwandan authorities on Monday said they had arrested a highly critical YouTuber on charges of denying the 1994 genocide, which could land him in jail for over a decade if he is found guilty. Aimable Karasira, 40, a…

Gunmen have attacked and wounded Uganda’s former army commander, killing his daughter and driver in an assassination attempt. Four attackers on…

The Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) has suspended Mali from its fold following two military coups in the country. The decision was reached at the ECOWAS emergency summit in Ghana on Sunday.…

Mali’s constitutional court on Friday named Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of the post-coup junta, as the country’s transitional president. The judgement…

Mali’s interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane tendered resignation. Agence France-Presse reported this on Wednesday, citing military and diplomatic sources. Late on Monday, a source told…

South Africa’s governing African National Congress said it will look into the behaviour of its already suspended general secretary, Ace Magashule, after he and two other party members aimed veiled insults at ANC leaders last week.…

Prostitutes in Zimbabwe are now reportedly accepting buckets of maize and cups of beans as payment for their services. This special form of trade by barter is reportedly being utilised by the sex workers in the Dema Growth…

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that allowing Chad Republic to destabilise would spell serious consequences for the peace and security of the countries in the Sahel and Chad Basin regions. The President gave the…

The Federal Government has condemned the detention of interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane of Mali. Both officials who are in the transitional government of Mali were reportedly taken by soldiers to…

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, who owns the largest cement factory in Tanzania, on Monday pledged to put up more investments in the country. A statement issued by the…

Lava from a volcano that erupted in Democratic Republic of Congo is reaching the airport in Goma, a volcanologist said on Saturday as the government activated plans to evacuate the city. Dario Tedesco, a volcanologist…

Social media platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have been restricted in Ethiopia, internet blockage observatory NetBlocks said on Monday. “Network data show Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram restricted in #Ethiopia,”…

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the Republic of Chad that Nigeria will support the country’s democratic transition. Buhari made this known on Friday when he hosted Mahamat Déby, president of Chad’s transitional…

The World Bank says Nigeria is responsible for over 40 percent of diaspora remittances in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). In a statement on Wednesday, the Washington-based financial institution said remittances to SSA declined…

Two transgender Cameroonians were sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison in Cameroon, where gay sex is illegal, for “attempting homosexuality”, their lawyer told AFP. Loc Djeukam, well-known on social media under…

The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has fixed the cost of COVID-19 testing, whether PCR or otherwise, at $50 at all points of entry from May 17, 2021. The Secretary to the Government of the…