South African defence minister’s pay docked over use of military plane
South Africa’s president has reprimanded defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and docked her pay for three months for taking a delegation to Zimbabwe on an air...
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AstraZeneca resumes Covid-19 vaccine trials
AstraZeneca has resumed COVID-19 vaccine trials in South Africa, more than a week after tests were paused due to serious side effects in a participant...
Roadside bomb attack misses Afghan vice president, but kills six
A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted first Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday morning but he escaped unharmed, his spokesman said. The attack killed at least...
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero arrested on terrorism charges
Rwanda said it had arrested Paul Rusesabagina – the man who was hailed a hero in a Hollywood movie about the country’s 1994 genocide – on...
More dolphins found dead on Mauritius beach near oil spill
Seven more dead dolphins were found on a Mauritius beach on Thursday, a government official said, a day after 17 carcasses were washed up near an oil...
Wild polio sufferers reflect as Africa declared free of the disease (Update)
Nigerian Gbemisola Ijigbamigbe’s right leg was virtually paralysed after she contracted wild polio aged 11 months. Now the 28-year-old leads an active life as a wheelchair basketball...
Gulf Arab states welcome truce announcement in Libya
The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has welcomed a ceasefire announcement in Libya, the UAE news agency WAM reported on Saturday. GCC Secretary General Nayef...
Kenyan all-female conservation ranger unit patrols amid coronavirus
Purity Amleset Lakara has spent the year capturing armed poachers, running from an aggressive buffalo, and relaxing around a campfire reading “A Day Before my...
Nigeria’s wet markets thrive despite coronavirus pandemic
Just a few months after Epe Fish Market was under lockdown to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, vendors at the site in the...
At least 45 African migrants die off Libya in worst shipwreck of 2020
At least 45 African migrants and refugees have perished in the Mediterranean Sea in the largest recorded shipwreck off the Libyan coast this year, U.N....
Mutinying soldiers detain Mali president and PM, worsening crisis
Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and top government officials were detained on Tuesday by mutinying soldiers in the capital Bamako on Tuesday, plunging a country...
Mauritius arrests captain of Japanese oil spill ship
Mauritius has arrested the captain of a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off its coast, causing a devastating oil spill in one of the world’s...
Egypt’s Sisi wins parliamentary approval for possible Libya intervention
Egypt’s parliament gave President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi the green light for possible military intervention in Libya by approving the deployment of armed forces abroad to fight...
Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, dies
Zindzi Mandela, daughter of former South African president and liberation hero Nelson Mandela, died on Monday, the Mandela family said. Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and...
Ivory Coast PM dies after cabinet meeting
Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ivory Coast’s prime minister and the ruling party’s candidate for an October presidential election, died on Wednesday, President Alassane Ouattara said. The...
At least 52 killed in Ethiopia protests over singer’s death
At least 50 people were killed in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region in protests following the fatal shooting of a popular singer, a regional spokesman said on...
Congo announces end of Ebola outbreak in east, second deadliest on record
The second-largest Ebola outbreak on record is over after nearly two years and more than 2,200 deaths, Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday, even...
Gunmen ambush Mali army convoy, soldiers killed – residents
Gunmen ambushed an army convoy near a town in central Mali on Sunday and killed a number of soldiers, residents from another nearby town said....
Libyan forces aligned with Tripoli government capture key air base
Forces aligned with Libya’s internationally recognised government took control of an air base south-west of Tripoli on Monday after a sustained assault, in what could...
Beaches, parks busy as Europe heat wave and U.S. spring test new coronavirus rules
Summer weather is enticing much of the world to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns as centers of the outbreak from New York to Italy and Spain...
