Confronted by surging patient numbers due to coronavirus, South Africa is considering a return to tighter restrictions to combat the disease, which officials say...
A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after unearthing two of the biggest rough tanzanite gemstones ever found.
Tanzania’s government bought the...
The coronavirus pandemic in Africa is “accelerating”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.
While it took 98 days for the continent to reach 100,000...
Forces allied with the UN-supported government in Libya said they retook another key western town from rival forces, another blow illustrating how Turkey’s support...
Locusts, Covid-19 and deadly flooding pose a “triple threat” to millions of people across East Africa, officials have warned.
The warning came as the World...