Africa

The Tanzanian government has issued a public health alert warning of a seasonal rise in COVID-19 and influenza infections, alongside growing concerns over dengue fever and ongoing cholera cases in …

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) held a two-day orientation and information session in Abidjan to induct the 10- member Board …

Zimbabwe has frozen exports of raw minerals and lithium concentrate, the mines ministry said on Wednesday, tightening control over materials key to clean‑energy technologies and defence industries. The ban takes …

President William Ruto’s administration is set to roll out a new program to provide employment opportunities to 20,000 youths across the country. The State Department for Labour and Skills Development …

Zimbabwe has begun rolling out lenacapavir, a long-acting injectable HIV prevention medicine. HIV has led to tens of thousands of deaths over the past two decades in the country. It …

US Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos revealed on Friday that the US had called on all Sudanese parties to immediately and unconditionally accept a humanitarian truce …

Voters in Uganda dumped three of the country’s most outspoken homophobes when they went to the polls for national elections in January. David Bahati, Asumani Basalirwa and Sarah Opendi were responsible for …

The siege and capture of the Sudanese city of El-Fasher was accompanied by atrocities that bore the “hallmarks of genocide,” a United Nations fact-finding mission reported Thursday. The U.S. Treasury …

Ethiopia’s House of People’s Representatives on Wednesday approved an eight-month extension for the National Dialogue Commission.  This is a second extension since the commission was formed over four years ago …

Village business units registered as commercial agricultural ventures are transforming Zimbabwe’s rural landscape, long associated with subsistence farming.  These community-based, commercially run village business units (VBUs) are located in rural …