The World Health Organization wants to secure an initial 230 million doses of any COVID-19 vaccine for Africa, officials said Thursday, while emphasising that any vaccine in development should also be ...

Mass vaccination against COVID-19 is unlikely to start in Africa until midway through next year and keeping vaccines cold could be a big challenge, the continent's disease control group said on ...

South Africa has welcomed a U.S. bridging plan worth $115 million to continue funding HIV treatment and prevention programs ...

But the military takeover in Madagascar marks only the second coup in that period to take place outside of the Sahel region, stretching from the Atlantic to the Horn of Africa – a signal that Africa’s ...

Speaking at the 4th Annual B Lab Africa Summit in Johannesburg, Dr Pali Lehohla, former Statistician-General of South Africa, ...

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Malawi’s Peter Mutharika is now Africa’s second-oldest leader, after Cameroon’s 92-year-old Paul Biya. Mutharika, who is now 85, took oath as the seventh president of Malawi on Saturday. Until ...

South Africa is back at the World Cup for the first time since hosting the tournament in 2010. Ivory Coast and Senegal will ...