Africa

Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that the World Health Organization (WHO) is controlled by China and criticized his May 29 decision to withdraw the...

The interim UN envoy, Stephanie Williams, met with a five-member delegation representing military commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. A meeting with the UN-recognized Government of National...

In November 2018, Italian aid worker Silvia Romano was kidnapped by gunmen linked to the Somali armed group al-Shabab in northeast Kenya. At the time of the attack, which left...

Malawi is seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases as citizens return from South Africa, the country hit harder than any other in Africa. Hundreds of returnees are expected to arrive...

Just 24 hours after South Africa’s coronavirus-responsive ban on alcohol sales was lifted, there are already calls for it to be reinstated. On social media, the hashtag #alcoholmustfall was trending...

DAKAR, Senegal — For months, researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, a prestigious biomedical research center in Senegal, have been working to produce a low-cost, rapid, at-home test for...

Many South Africans had hangovers on Tuesday and some were admitted to hospital 24 hours after the 68-day ban on booze was lifted.   Cities that has been quiet since lockdown...

Faced with a budget deficit that’s likely to reach wartime levels, South African Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is rebuffing suggestions that the central bank help plug the hole. South Africa’s...

The killing of an unarmed African-American by a white police officer in Minneapolis is sparking outrage across sub-Saharan Africa, with protests staged in Kenya and Nigeria and political leaders voicing...

The European Union banned all Armenia-based airlines from flying to the bloc under the latest changes to a list of unsafe carriers, citing concerns about the country’s regulatory oversight of...