Africa

FORMER Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, who served from 1995 to 2005, has died.

Democratic Congressman Elliot Engel lost in the New-York primary race against African-American candidate Jamaal Bowman scoring only 35 percent  of  vote against 62 percent for Bowman.

ZIMBABWE Defence Forces (ZDF) commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, says the level of corruption displayed by some of the country’s leaders is tantamount to selling out.

OUTGOING Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died of a heart attack, BBC reports.

RWANDAN president Paul Kagame has called for the review and consideration of sanctions against two African countries, Zimbabwe and Sudan, to support their ability to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.

DESPERATELY-NEEDED aid for millions of people across sub-Saharan Africa is under threat as the deadly coronavirus pandemic sweeps a continent already facing a volley of crises.

A ZIMBABWEAN doctor working in New York says she sometimes feels helpless in the fight against Covid-19 — and without a vaccine or cure, says the world should work more to flatten the curve.

SOME African countries could see a peak in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks, and testing should be urgently increased in the region, World Health Organisation (WHO) officials said yesterday.

MORE than 300 people have been tested for the coronavirus, while another 18, who were in contact with the only diagnosed South African, have been quarantined, SA Health minister Zweli Mkhize said yesterday.

HARARE - Starved prisoners at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison resorted to trapping rats for survival in the cells as the institution was failing to meet their dietary needs, the court heard yesterday.This was said during the trial of…

KINSHASA - Felix Tshisekedi has vowed to be the president "of all Congolese" after the Democratic...

PRETORIA - Dozens of businesses have converged in South Africa's capital Pretoria for what local ...

KIGALI - A Rwandan court acquitted Diane Rwigara, a critic of veteran President Paul Kagame, on c...

HARARE - The chair of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has told an inquir...

ADDIS ABABA - Sexual harassment is a problem for women who work at the African Union Commission, ...

ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian members of parliament have elected Sahle-Work Zewde as the country's firs...

GABERONE - It has emerged that the US embassy in Gaborone has tried to organise a troika, a tripa...

Mbabane - The African kingdom of eSwatini, formerly known as Swaziland, has gone to the polls tha...

Authorities in Brazil have seized more than $16m (£12m) worth of cash and luxury watches from a d...

GABERONE - The carcasses of 87 elephants have been found near a wildlife sanctuary in Botswana, i...

BEIJING - African countries have shown a healthy appetite for Chinese loans but some experts now ...

CAPE TOWN - Theresa May has announced plans to boost Britain's investment in Africa after Brexit,...

ACCRA - The Central Regional chairperson of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is ...

PRETORIA - A public inquiry in South Africa has started investigating alleged corruption by ex-Pr...

KINSHASA - Ebola is suspected to have caused as many as 33 deaths during the latest outbreak of t...