JOHANNESBURG— A booster of US coronavirus vaccine Johnson & Johnson was 85 percent effective in preventing serious illness in areas where Omicron was dominant, a South African trial study indicated. The South African Medical Research Council conducte...
PRETORIA— South Africa has lifted a midnight to 4am curfew on people’s movement with immediate effect, believing the country has passed the peak of its fourth COVID-19 wave driven by the Omicron variant, a government statement said.The country made the...
KHARTOUM— At least three people were killed in demonstrations in Sudan’s Omdurman city on Thursday, said the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD), a non-governmental organization.“Three people died in the processions in Omdurman by the bullets ...
BAMAKO— Eight soldiers have been killed and seven others were injured when their patrol was ambushed by a suspected armed group in western Mali, the army said in a statement.The attack occurred late in the afternoon on Wednesday near the town of Nara, ...
Islamist militant attacks increased this past year in the Sahel region, leading to political instability that saw a coup in Mali, an attempted coup in Niger, and calls for Burkina Faso's president to resign. Burkina Faso experienced the deadliest terro...
My Fellow South Africans, This is a special time of year for us all. It is a time for family and for enjoying quality time with those we love. For many of us, this is also a time to look back at the year we have been through – it is time to reflect on ...
“We welcome the end of the curfew, but President Ramaphosa needs to go a step further and end the National State of Disaster”I welcome the announcement by the National Government yesterday evening that the curfew will be terminated ahead of New Year’s ...
South Africans took their last opportunity to pay their respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Friday, the eve of the revered anti-apartheid fighter’s funeral.Since Thursday, nearly 3,000 mourners have filed through Cape Town's St. George's Cathedral b...
Windhoek: The Bank of Namibia (BoN) has maintained the repo rate at 6.75 percent for the next two months. The central bank announced this decision on Wednesday, stating that the unchanged rate aims to sustain the peg between the Namibian Dollar and th...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia and Kenya have signed an implementation memorandum of agreement to facilitate trade relations between the two countries and ensure that people living in the border area can access essential daily commodities without any supply di...
Nairobi: Paddy rice production in Kenya has doubled over the past six years, increasing from 116,000 metric tons in 2018 to 244,000 metric tons in 2023. However, the national rice self-sufficiency rate remains below 20 percent, indicating a continued ...
