Zambia delays reopening of schools over virus fears
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu on Friday ordered schools to delay reopening by two weeks. Schools were due to open on January 18 but will now...
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Uganda election: Bobi Wine alleges widespread fraud, violence
Uganda’s opposition leader Bobi Wine said the country’s election had seen “widespread fraud and violence”, as votes trickled in Friday under an internet blackout. The...
South African minister tests positive for coronavirus
South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu has become the fourth member of the executive to test positive for coronavirus. Mr Mthembu was tested...
Zimbabwe bans traditional funerals after spike in coronavirus cases
Zimbabwe has banned families from transporting their dead relatives between cities, a custom where families take the dead to their areas of birth for burial...
WHO: Coronavirus cases in Africa near three million
World Health Organization The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, has said there are over 2.9 million confirmed COVID-19 cases...
Africa’s second coronavirus wave ‘more aggressive’
The second wave of coronavirus hitting Africa is “more aggressive” than the first, according to the head of the African Centres for Disease Control (CDC),...
Egypt to probe four coronavirus deaths due to alleged lack of oxygen
Egyptian prosecutors opened an investigation into the deaths on Sunday of at least four coronavirus patients at a public Egyptian hospital, after a video of...
British Airways suffers multiple bird strikes at Lagos airport
A Boeing 777-300, registration G-STBE belonging to British Airways, performing flight BA-75 from Heathrow airport, London to Lagos, suffered multiple bird strikes on December 30,...
Total asks Mozambique staff to leave as attacks draw near to LNG project
Total SE asked some staff to vacate its $20 billion (about R293 billion) Mozambique liquefied natural gas (LNG) project as Islamist militants are staging attacks...
Reuters cameraman detained in Ethiopia has seen no evidence against him – lawyer
Reuters cameraman Kumerra Gemechu has been held in solitary confinement for nearly a week without charge or being given any evidence of wrongdoing, his lawyer...