Ivory Coast has begun an Ebola vaccination programme following the confirmation of its first case since 1994. The country’s health ministry said the family of the infected teenager and health workers involved were the first to be given the jab. Health official Serge Ehole ... Read More

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has handed himself in to police to begin serving a jail sentence for contempt of court. His Foundation said he had travelled to a prison near his home in KwaZulu-Natal province late on Wednesday. Police had ... Read More

Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan On Wednesday evening she had the task of announcing to Tanzanians that President John Magufuli had died and now Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan is due to take his place as the country's head of state. First elected ... Read More

The late President John Magufuli Tanzania's President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country's vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said in an address on state ... Read More

Rwanda has imposed a 15-day lock down on its capital, Kigali, as the country battles a second wave of coronavirus cases that has resulted in "unprecedented deaths and transmission rates". This is the capital's second lockdown since the outbreak of the ... Read More

Cyril Ramaphosa - South African President South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is self-quarantining after a guest at a dinner he attended later tested positive for Covid-19. The president is not showing symptoms and will perform his duties remotely, his office said ... Read More

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Mali from all ECOWAS decision-making bodies with immediate effect. This follows a mutiny in the country on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, which has ousted a democratically elected President of the country, ... Read More

Zindzi Mandela Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South Africa's anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died, public broadcaster SABC has reported. She died in Johannesburg on Monday morning aged 59. The death has been confirmed by a family source, SABC ... Read More

The murder of political activist and singer, Haacaaluu Hundeessaa in Ethiopia, which led to protest last week has caused the death of 239 people. The protest has continued and spread all over Ethiopia and abroad including a demonstration in Beirut’s Martyrs’ ... Read More

Senegalese President Macky Sall has quarantined himself as a precaution after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to a presidential statement late Wednesday. Although Sall tested negative for the virus, he will be undergoing ... Read More