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 where they can be displayed in ...
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 quoted as saying in a ...
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 inoculated for up to six months.
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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 which had ...
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 minister admitted the country’s rail network ...
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 recent push by Ankara to ...
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 had been killed in the most ...
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 Thursday, but there ...
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 week.
A surge in armed militancy ...
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 tame ...
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 people were ...
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 air force said.
“First responders ...
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 local coronavirus variant ...
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 government and to the political ...
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 antibody protection from Pfizer‘...
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, The Economic Times reported on ...
South Africa’s ex-president Zuma fails to show at corruption inquiry
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma did not show up on Monday at an inquiry into corruption during his time in office despite the country’s top court ordering ...
Guinea reports eight Ebola cases including three deaths
Eight people have tested positive for the Ebola virus in southeastern Guinea and three of them have died, Guinean health authorities said, the first possible resurgence of the disease there ...
The results of the political dialogue in Geneva: a surprise or a natural sequence of events?
The last round of the voting process at the Libyan Dialogue Forum in Geneva on February 5, 2021 resulted in victory for a list of people that includes Muhammad Yunus Al-Manfi as ...
Not perfect, but saves lives, AstraZeneca says
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is not perfect, but will have a big impact on the pandemic, its chief executive predicted on Thursday, as the drugmaker pledged to double output by ...
Factbox – What we know about the S. African variant
South Africa halted the planned rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild infection from one variant of ...
Global health officials back Astra jab after S. Africa study (Update)
Health officials around the world gave their backing to the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19, after a study showing it had little effect against mild disease caused by the variant now ...
S. Africa faces widespread scepticism over vaccine safety
As a nurse in a country battling deadly diseases, Rich Sicina sometimes vaccinates other South Africans, but he says there is no way he will take a COVID-19 shot – he ...