Africa Articles

Nigeria to get 42 million Covid-19 vaccines to cover one-fifth of its population through the global COVAX scheme. Faisal Shuaib, head of the country's primary healthcare says the batch of vaccines would come as part of Nigeria's plan to inoculate 40% of the population...

By Naadiya Adams Malawi’s Lilongwe Magistrates Court has ordered that the formal hearing of the extradition process for self-proclaimed prophet Shepard Bushiri and his wife Mary is set to begin in March. Kicking off the extradition process, the Malawian government...

By Naadiya Adams Search and rescue operations at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe have finally retrieved the body of a 40-year-old tourist who plunged to his death on New Year’s Day. Roy Dikinya, a Harare man is shown walking along the edge of the gorge in his sandals...

In Zimbabwe, girls as young as 10 are forced to marry due to poverty or traditional and religious practices. A teenage taekwondo enthusiast is using the sport to give girls in an impoverished community a fighting chance at life. 17-year old Natsiraishe Maritsa a...

Egyptian Liverpool football star, Mohamed Salah, has donated an oxygen tank to the Basyoun Central Hospital in Egypt's southern governorate of Gharbiya "to support coronavirus patients' treatment," the local Nagrig Charity Association announced yesterday. Director...

By Naadiya Adams - @Miss Naadiya An entire Intensive Care Unit of Covid-19 Patients has died in Egypt’s El Husseineya Central Hospital in Ash Sharqia province after the medical centre ran out of oxygen. Footage of the ward went viral when a relative of one of the...

A car bomb targeting workers of a Turkish company killed four people including one Turkish citizen on Saturday in Somalia. The ministry in a statement say the company's staff were working on the construction of a road between Mogadishu and Afgoye a town in Somalia,...

11 security personnel have been killed by landmines planted by Boko Haram, including four soldiers in northeast Nigeria, security sources said this week. Seven hunters recruited to help the military fight the terrorist insurgents were killed on Tuesday when their...

By Naadiya Adams 37 people were killed when their bus hit a truck in central Cameroon police said at the weekend. 10 of which were women and four children. The bus was found in a ravine where 19 other people also cited injuries. Ndikinimeki police commissioner...