Africa

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says at least one million children in Africa have received one or more doses of the world’s first malaria vaccine. Children in Ghana, Kenya, and …

Egypt’s economy will grow 5.3 per cent in the fiscal year ending in June but the pace will ease to 5.2 per cent in 2022/23 and 5.0 per cent in …

Troops undergoing briefing in Kaduna before their deployment to Guinea Bissau for the ECOWAS peacekeeping mission. As part of strengthening and enhancing security in the  West African sub-region,  the Nigerian …

Members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) prepare to travel from the old Virginia airport in Durban, on April 19, 2022 – GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP Troops have been deployed …

Ivorian vice president Tiemoko Meyliet Kone (C) inspects the honour guard after being sworn in at the presidential palace in Abidjan on April 20, 2022 – ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP Côte d’Ivoire’s …

Italy on Wednesday penned a deal with Angola to ramp up gas supplies from the southern African country as it urgently scrambles to break away from Russian gas over the …

The court on Tuesday sentenced Sun Shujun to 20 years in prison, a journalist who attended the court session told the BBC. A Rwandan court has sentenced a Chinese national …

AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN Six midwives in Senegal have been charged over a pregnant woman’s death in hospital this month, their lawyer said Wednesday, in an affair that …

Mali receives military equipment from Russia – AFP Two more combat helicopters and surveillance radars arrived in Mali on a Russian cargo flight. The consignment brings to eight the known …

General Mahamat Idriss Deby, Chad’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) leader, delivering a message at the presidential palace in N’Djamena on April 27, 2021 – BRAHIM ADJI/AFP A year after Chadian …