Africa
A South African court on Tuesday again postponed a long-delayed corruption trial against jailed former president Jacob Zuma to September 9 following his hospitalisation last week for an undisclosed medical condition. Zuma, whose jailing last month for 15 months on a separate contempt of court matter led to a wave of looting and unrest, was ...
Egypt on Monday received its first shipment of one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, obtaining 261,600 doses in cooperation with the African Union, the health ministry said. The J&J ...
Tunisian President Kais Saied has appointed Ali Mrabet as the new health minister, the presidency said on Friday. During the inauguration ceremony, the new minister "took the constitutional ...
Seven Arab nations on Tuesday informed the African Union (AU) of their objection to grant Israel observer status in the bloc. Israeli Ambassador to Addis Ababa Aleli Admasu ...
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday fired the country's ambassador to Washington as well as the governor of Sfax province. The Presidency said in a statement that Saied ...
Libya received a batch of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines on Monday amid the country's stepped-up effort to vaccinate as many people as possible. Speaking at a joint press ...
Two humanitarian rescue ships pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean overnight on Sunday in an operation lasting about six hours, a Reuters ...
The Egyptian army said on Sunday that it recently killed 89 highly dangerous extremists in the northeastern province of North Sinai. The military also detected and destroyed 404 ...
A resurgence of coronavirus cases in West Africa is hitting the region hard, inundating cemeteries where funeral numbers are rising and hospitals where beds are becoming scarce. Those visible shifts are also pushing a reluctant population to seek out the vaccines in larger numbers at a time when shipments of doses are arriving from multiple ...
Tunisia's president promised on Friday he would not turn into a dictator and rejected accusations he had staged a coup, as two parliament members were arrested following his ...
