The U.S. gave full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday, a milestone that may help lift public confidence in the shots as the nation battles the most contagious coronavirus mutant yet. The vaccine...

Ivory Coast has detected its first cases since 2015 of the H5N1 bird flu in poultry farms, the government said Thursday. “Since July 20, high death rates among poultry were spotted in traditional and...

Clashes between fishermen and herders in Cameroon’s Far North region over the past week have killed 32 people and forced thousands to flee to neighbouring Chad, the UN said Thursday. “A total of 19...

Burkina Faso’s president has declared three days of national mourning from Thursday after suspected jihadists killed 47 people, including 30 civilians, in an attack in the north of the country. The...

Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was on Monday declared winner of the hotly contested presidential election in debt-burdened Zambia. With 155 of 156 constituencies reporting, official results showed...

The Taliban has claimed victory in Afghanistan after taking over the capital Kabul, bringing to a swift end almost 20 years of a US-led coalition’s presence in the country. Fighters have seized...

A woman was killed and at least 17 other people injured in an explosion on a bus in western Russia, local authorities said early Friday. Several of the wounded were in serious condition. “So far...

A helicopter carrying 16 tourists and crew on a sightseeing trip in Russia’s far east crashed into a lake on Thursday, leaving eight people including a child feared dead and two others in serious condition. The...

China’s drug regulator has approved the country’s first mixed-vaccine trial, a company involved in the study said, as the rapid spread of the Delta variant raises concern about the efficacy of domestically...

US President Joe Biden has called on Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign Tuesday, following an official report that said Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women. “He should resign,” Biden...

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s name was allegedly used in a botched deal which resulted in a Harare man losing US$488, 000. According to a Zimbabwean news daily, a suspected fraudster,...

Tunisian President Kais Saied announced Sunday the suspension of the country’s parliament and the dismissal of Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi following a day of protests against the ruling party. Car...

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto...

The death toll from catastrophic floods in western Germany and Belgium has risen to more than 100, local authorities have said, as emergency services continued their search for hundreds still missing. “I...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has inaugurated its embassy in Israel, less than a year after the two countries announced they would establish formal diplomatic relations. The embassy is situated in the...

Pope Francis has been seen leaving hospital in Rome, 10 days after undergoing surgery to remove half his colon. A car carrying the 84-year-old was spotted leaving Gemelli Polytechnic hospital in the...

The death toll from the violence and looting that have scourged South Africa for several days has risen to 32, with the announcement of 22 more deaths on Tuesday morning by the premier of Kwazulu-Natal...

The South African military said on Monday it was deploying soldiers in two provinces, including its economic hub of Johannesburg, to help police cope with looting and arson attacks on businesses. Soldiers...

South Africa’s Constitutional Court will this Monday review the 15-month jail sentence handed to Jacob Zuma for contempt of court. The former head of state, who has been in prison since Wednesday,...

According to the World Health Organisation, the worst is yet to come as the third wave of Covid-19 gathers pace on the continent. Africa has just lived through its most devastating week of the pandemic. The...