Gunmen killed a police officer and kidnapped five Chinese nationals working at a gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s conflict-plagued east on Sunday,

A Somali journalist with state-run media was killed Saturday in Mogadishu when a suicide bomber blew up his car, government officials and his colleagues said.

The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) has flagged an increasing “volatility” in the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 RNA fragments in wastewater samples in recent weeks.

South Africa now has 328 771 children who are vaccinated after 8 310 first doses of the Pfizer vaccine were administered in the past 24

NIAMEY— Suspected jihadists killed 25 civilians in Niger in a lawless desert region near the border with Mali, local officials said.   Niger, the world’s

JOHANNESBURG— South Africa is likely to experience a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic but the numbers of hospital admissions and deaths will probably not

Zimbabwe’s government says the COVID-19 pandemic is “under control” in the country, following several days with few or no reported deaths and few infections from