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

The Gambia has called for an investigation into the shooting and death of a diplomat’s son in Snellville, Georgia. The Gambian foreign affairs ministry on Thursday said they have asked the Gambian Embassy in Washington to “engage the relevant U.S. authorities including the ... Read More

China has donated 62,000 masks and over 19,000 pieces of PPEs, together with other critical medical equipment to Zimbabwe. The news was announced by the Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe. “My pleasure to handover the donation to our Zimbabwean friends. Together we ... Read More

Supporters of the ‘‘Black Lives Matter’‘ movement gathered outside the South African parliament in Cape Town Wednesday. Protesters expressed solidarity with African-American George Floyd in the United States. Floyd, 46, died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against ... Read More

The restrictions that were placed on the former President of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, and his ex-Minister of Sports and Youth, Charles Blé Goudé, after being freed on all charges of crimes against humanity, have been lifted. The trial of the ... Read More

A South African court ruled on Tuesday that the COVID-19 lockdown regulations in the country are “unconstitutional” and “invalid.” “Some of the regulations promulgated by the government simply did not meet the rationality test in preventing the spread of COVID-19,” the ... Read More