Chad President Idriss Deby dies on frontlines, army spokesman says
Chad’s President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the...
Africa
Suez Canal may expand southern channel, chairman says
The Suez Canal Authority is considering expanding the southern section of the waterway where the container ship Ever Given became stranded, its chairman said on...
Jordan’s Prince Hamza says he will disobey army orders to keep silent
Jordan’s estranged Prince Hamza said in a voice recording released on Monday that he would disobey orders by the army not to communicate with outside...
Majestic Cairo parade as Egyptian mummies move museum
A grand parade will convey 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies in specially designed capsules across the capital Cairo on Saturday to a new museum home...
Mozambique army says Total project protected after militant attack
A natural gas project being developed by French energy major Total in northern Mozambique is beyond the reach of militants, a Mozambique army spokesman was...
Pfizer shot 91% effective against S. African variant
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech said on Thursday their COVID-19 vaccine is around 91% effective at preventing the disease, citing updated trial data that included participants...
Traffic in Suez Canal resumes after stranded ship refloated
By Yusri Mohamed, Nadine Awadalla and Aidan Lewis Egypt’s Suez Canal will reopen for shipping traffic in both directions on Monday evening after a giant container ship...
Egypt train crash kills 32 people, injures scores
At least 32 people were killed and 165 injured when two trains collided in central Egypt on Friday, health ministry officials said, as the prime...
Turkey, eyeing better Egypt ties, offers help with Suez jam
Turkey can send its Nene Hatun vessel to help resolve a blockage on the Suez Canal, Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoglu said on Friday, amid a...
Myanmar protesters back out on streets after bloodiest day since coup
Myanmar pro-democracy activists were back out on the streets on Thursday to demonstrate against military rule a day after the United Nations said 38 people...
Yemen’s Houthis say they fired missile at Saudi Aramco site in Jeddah
Yemen’s Houthi forces fired a missile at a Saudi Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea city of Jeddah, a Houthi military spokesman said on...
Gunmen abduct 317 schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria as security collapses
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped 317 schoolgirls from the town of Jangebe in northwest Nigeria on Friday, police said, the second such kidnapping in little over a...
First vaccine doses dispatched by COVAX arrive in Ghana
The World Health Organization’s global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX delivered its first COVID-19 shots on Wednesday, as the race to get doses to the world’s poorest people and...
Armed group denies killing Italian ambassador in Congo
An armed group in eastern Congo, accused by the government of carrying out an ambush on a United Nations convoy in which Italy’s ambassador and two other...
Italian envoy and two others killed in attack on UN convoy in Congo
Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and two other people were killed on Monday in an attack on a United Nations convoy in eastern Congo, Italy’s...
Nigerian air force plane crash near Abuja airport kills 7
A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport due to engine failure on Sunday, killing all seven people on board, the...
S. Africa advisers back Pfizer vaccine after study
Two of the South African government’s top advisers on COVID-19 backed Pfizer’s vaccine on Friday, despite a study earlier this week showing that the dominant...
Gunfire erupts in Mogadishu as Somali government forces seal off streets
Gunfire and rockets exploded on Friday in Mogadishu as Somali government forces clashed with protesters angered by delayed elections, hours after fighters loyal to the...
Pfizer study deals new blow to S. Africa’s vaccine hopes
Scientists will meet on Thursday to advise South Africa’s government on its next steps after a study suggested the dominant local coronavirus variant may reduce...
South Africa wants to return 1 mln vaccine doses, eyes Sputnik V
South Africa has asked the Serum Institute of India to take back the one million COVID-19 vaccine doses the company had sent in early February,...