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Liberia announced its first case of the novel coronavirus on Monday, becoming the 27th African country to confirm the illness. The patient is the head of Liberia’s environmental agency and…

Zimbabwe’s annual inflation soared to over 500% in February, the country’s statistical agency said on Monday, releasing its first consumer price data since June last year. “The year-on-year inflation rate…

Authorities in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos on Monday said that the death toll from a suspected gas explosion had risen to 17 as emergency services dug bodies from the debris.…

Clusters of white tarpaulin tents dot the green forest slopes of Zimbabwe‘s northeastern town of Chimanimani, home to hundreds of people who have been displaced since Cyclone Idai struck these…

Kenya unveiled a series of strict measures to curb coronavirus on Sunday, blocking entry to the country to all except citizens and residents and shutting schools as the number of…

Zimbabwe’s defence minister has called the coronavirus pandemic a “punishment” of the US and Europe for imposing sanctions against members of the ruling regime over human rights abuses. Coronavirus has…

A Canadian woman and her Italian partner kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2018 have been found in good health in the northwest of Mali after fleeing their captors, and were…

After years of ethnic massacres and unrelenting jihadist attacks, central Mali has been left a harrowed area of deserted villages and displaced people. An Islamist insurgency erupted in the north…

Rwanda on Saturday confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus – an Indian citizen who arrived last week from Mumbai, the health ministry said. “He is currently under treatment…