Africa
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, has confirmed its first cases of the omicron variant, joining the rapidly growing number of countries where the new mutation has been detected. Three people who arrived from South Africa in the past week tested positive for the new coronavirus strain, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said in ...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said Monday that their countries are willing to promote China-Algeria cooperation during a meeting ...
Rwanda will reintroduce the mandatory 24-hour quarantine for incoming travellers following the detection of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa starting on Sunday, the Ministry of Health ...
Morocco continues to lead African countries in acquiring and administering the most doses of Covid-19 vaccine to their populations, the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...
The United States will offer support to Tunisia once it has announced dates for political reform, a Tunisia presidency statement said, nearly four months after President Kais Saied ...
A deal was reached between Sudan’s military and civilian leaders to reinstate Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who was deposed in a coup last month, military and government officials ...
A Sudanese protester died of his wounds on Saturday, taking the death toll from protests against last month's military takeover to 40, according to medics. The independent Central ...
Doctors in Sudan say 14 people have been shot dead by security forces as thousands took to the streets to protest against the recent military takeover. Activists had ...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken appealed Wednesday for the preservation of democracy in politically and ethnically fractured societies as he opened his first official visit to Africa in Kenya amid worsening crises in neighboring Ethiopia and Sudan. In a lengthy, private meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and other top officials, Blinken hailed Kenya’s ...
Japan on Tuesday extended by one year the mission of its forces deployed in Somalia guarding the passage of commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden. The government ...
