Uganda recorded the highest number of Covid-19 cases in a single day on Thursday since the pandemic began
The health ministry revealed that 1,438 out of 8,476 people tested positive from the virus, signaling a 17% positivity rate.
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Nigeria’s media and activists fear their country is slipping into repression after the government suspended Twitter
The decision on Friday, days after Twitter deleted a remark from President Muhammadu Buhari, has already provoked international outcry over
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Tens of thousands of malnourished children risk dying in hard-to-reach areas of Ethiopia’s conflict-wracked Tigray region
Without humanitarian access to scale up our response, an estimated 30,000-plus severely malnourished children in those highly inaccessible areas are
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Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal clash for the 58th time in their “historic rivalry” on Friday
It is tennis’s greatest modern match-up between two men who have harvested 38 Grand Slam titles and 72 Masters between
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South Africa has officially entered its third wave of coronavirus infections, health authorities said
South Africa technically entered the 3rd wave today as the national 7-day moving average incidence (5959 cases) now exceeds the
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The Philippines is once again polio-free, the World Health Organization said Friday
Polio re-emerged in the country in 2019, nearly two decades after its last cases were detected, sparking a nationwide effort
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Pakistan province said Friday it will block the mobile phones of people refusing to get Covid-19 jabs
It comes after Sindh province said civil servants who refuse to be vaccinated will not be paid from July. A
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U.N.-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimates that some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s
embattled Tigray region are facing famine conditions, a U.N. official said late Wednesday. The estimate was presented at a meeting
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Firmin Ngrebada on Thursday resigned as prime minister of the Central African Republic along with his entire cabinet
Ngrebada was made prime minister in February 2019. He had served as President Faustine-Archange Touadera’s chief of cabinet before the
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EU needs to respect refugee law as it copes with migration flows, many of which are triggered by wars
Peter Maurer underscored that point in an interview with AFP touching on many of the conflicts in which the Swiss-based
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