Covid-19 in South Africa: Scientists seek to understand new variant
Scientists in South Africa say there is a “reasonable concern” that the new variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country might prove to be more...
Category : Africa
Three die in Ugandan protests after Bobi Wine’s arrest
Police in Uganda say three people have died and dozens injured in protests in the capital and other urban areas following the arrest of presidential...
World’s only known white giraffe fitted with tracker to deter poachers
The world’s only known white giraffe has been fitted with a GPS tracking device to keep poachers at bay in north-east Kenya, conservationists say. A...
SA leader Ramaphosa holds phone talks with Biden
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramapahosa held phone talks with US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday evening and discussed strengthening of US-Africa relations. The two leaders...
Ethiopia ready to ‘receive’ refugees fleeing Tigray
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that his country is ready to “receive and reintegrate” thousands of refugees fleeing the northern state of Tigray...
Ghana’s anti-graft prosecutor resigns over ‘meddling’
Ghana’s anti-corruption special prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has resigned saying his mandate and efforts had been compromised. Mr Amidu’s appointment in 2018 by President Nana Akufo-Addo...
Zambia on brink of defaulting foreign debt
Zambia is on the brink of defaulting on its foreign debt after it missed a payment of more than $40m (£30.5m) last month. A so-called...
Jerry Rawlings: Ghana’s ex-president dies aged 73
Ghana’s former President Jerry John Rawlings has died at the age of 73. He led two coups, first in 1979, before twice being elected president...
Chimamanda voted the ‘winner of winners’ in Women’s Prize
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun has been voted the best book to have won the Women’s Prize for Fiction...
Covid-19 peaked in Kenya ‘earlier than thought’
Covid-19 had already infected 1.3 million Kenyans by June – a far higher number than previously thought. That is the finding of a landmark study...