Preventing worst-case predictions for the devastation COVID-19 can create across Africa is essential. Four key interventions, adapted to differing local realities, can alter that ... Read more »

As the impact of the Coronavirus crisis spreads, pushing Africa economies into free fall, countries urgently need debt relief and liquidity. That is the message in a statement by ... Read more »

Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama has told the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 that about 4,000 Nigerians abroad are willing to come home after being ... Read more »

The Ethiopian forces guarding Bardelle airstrip in Baidoa adjudged the plane's unusual flight towards the facility as a potential suicide mission and downed it, according to a ... Read more »

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio has accused accused the main opposition All People's Congress (APC) of an "unrelenting barrage of attacks" aimed at makng the west African ... Read more »

Smallpox had been killing humans for at least three thousand years - 300 million people in the 20th century alone - World Health Organization (WHO) Director ... Read more »

The World Health Organization has said it welcomes innovations around the world including repurposing drugs, traditional medicines and developing new therapies in the search for ... Read more »

Lockdowns cost Africa U.S.$65 billion monthly, "but can you quantify life? If we don't lock down and we lose a life, how much of our GDP is that? That is the intangible question we ... Read more »

The U.S. has said aside from the U.S.$311 million Abacha loot returned to the Nigerian government recently, another separate amount of U.S.$152 million was still in active ... Read more »

Tensions between Ethiopia and Egypt are at a peak after Ethiopia skipped the last round of talks held in Washington on February 26, saying it needed more time for consultations at ... Read more »