Egypt has postponed the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza on the outskirts of Cairo until next year, as the country tries to halt the coronavirus spread. The…
The forces of Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar rained rockets on the capital Tripoli early on Tuesday after being ousted by government loyalists from a string of towns to its…
Swarms of locusts in Ethiopia have damaged 200 000 hectares of cropland and driven around a million people to require emergency food aid, the United Nations says. The findings from…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians to stay at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus, but the government has still not said whether it will extend a…
Africa’s forecast of 2.4% growth for the year has been dealt a deathblow by the global Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Albert Zeufack, the World Bank’s chief economist for Africa, delivered a…
Under strong international pressure, China on Sunday vowed to improve the treatment of Africans in the southern city of Guangzhou following accusations of discrimination linked to the coronavirus pandemic, and…
The justice minister of Somalia’s autonomous Hirshabelle state, Khalif Mumin Tohow, has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, the second recorded death in the country. Tohow died on Sunday in…
When Africa’s first case of coronavirus was detected in Egypt in February, the rest of the continent prepared for the brunt of a pandemic that has engulfed Europe and spread…
The Covid-19 coronavirus, which has killed 100 000 people across the world, could be stalking Zimbabwe silently. There were concerns about poor preparedness, inadequate testing and socioeconomic practices that had…
