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

Congolese Health Minister Eteni Longondo on Thursday officially proclaimed the end of the Ebola epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the second most serious since the discovery of the virus in 1976. Declared on 1 August 2018, this tenth epidemic ... Read More

South Africa's former President FW de Klerk South Africa’s last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged racial ... Read More

A team of Nigerian scientists has announced the discovery of a preventive vaccine against the novel coronavirus, local media reported Saturday. “It is our passion to be a solution provider to such a global pandemic, and we are ready to throw ... Read More

China has pledged to supply any vaccine against Coronavirus to African first free of charge. China is leading the race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine and its scientists are largely pinning their hopes on a technology that has been used for ... Read More

African nations have prepared a draft resolution at the U.N.’s top human rights body that singles out the United States and would launch intense international scrutiny of systemic racism against people of African descent in the wake of recent high-profile ... Read More

The late President Pierre Nkurunziza Burundi will seek constitutional interpretation on how to proceed over the power vacuum created by the death of president Pierre Nkurunziza on June 8. The First Vice-President, Gaston Sindimwo, today (June 11) chaired an extraordinary Council ... Read More

Paul Kagame, born 23 October 1957, is President of the Republic of Rwanda. He is now a constitutional political leader but had a stint as military leader earlier in his life. He took presidential office in 2000 after the resignation ... Read More

Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda Uganda's Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda has gone into self-isolation after some of his contacts tested positive of for coronavirus. Local journalists say cabinet members are being tested for the virus. Mr Rugunda made the announcement on Twitter: Friends, I ... Read More