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

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South Africa's former President FW de Klerk South Africa’s last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged racial ...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