Lesotho has instructed its security forces to ensure all citizens who work in neighbouring South Africa and returned home for the year-end holidays are inoculated against the coronavirus.

Turkey will send 15 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Africa, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced.

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Opposition activists in Sudan were set for new protests Sunday to mark the third anniversary of mass demonstrations that ended the dictatorship of president Omar al-Bashir as fears mount for the democratic transition.

Archeologists discovered a man and woman's mummified remains in a tomb at El Bahnasa, Egypt, buried with gold tongue-shaped amulets in their mouth.

The countrywide protests have been sparked because of the high cost of living, unemployment and a faltering economy.

The situation was made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic, the effects of which will be felt for years to come.

The South African government has agreed to donate more than two million doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, worth R288.6, million to other African countries.

Cameroon's government must shift its focus from military-backed attacks to justice, in its efforts to quell violence in the country's Anglophone regions, Human Rights Watch says.

Lesotho's privately owned radio station 357 FM has been taken off the air and will only return to broadcasting on 10 January in what that country's Media Institute of Southern Africa says is a gag on media freedom.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has said that the latest Ebola outbreak was officially over, as the country marked 42 days with no new cases.

Malawi will make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for frontline staff including health workers and journalists, health minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda said on Thursday, as the country grapples with a surge in new infections.

Security forces allied to Ethiopia's army are rounding up and killing Tigrayan civilians in a fresh wave of ethnic violence in the country's brutal war, two rights groups said Thursday.

Eight days before Libyans were meant to cast presidential votes, there is utter confusion over the fate of an election that has not yet been formally delayed but that has almost no chance of going ahead on time.

KALANGALA, Uganda, Dec 16 - Uganda is delivering HIV medicine by drone in an archipelago in Lake Victoria, a pilot programme aiming to improve the transport of medical supplies for the country's health system, which faces chronic shortages.

An international human rights group on Thursday accused separatist fighters in Cameroon's Anglophone regions of systematically targeting schools, students and teachers during a civil war that has killed thousands of people.

South African-born billionaire Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong looks set to establish a Covid-19 and cancer vaccine centre in Botswana.

Ethiopian authorities must immediately free all detained journalists and stop using wartime emergency laws to lock up reporters for doing their jobs, a press freedom watchdog said Thursday.

Southern African countries stand to lose billions of US dollars in wildlife and tourism revenue if the United Kingdom passes into law a bill that seeks to ban the importation of hunting trophies.