Africa
Most coronavirus patients recover, still anxiety, fear loom
Amid all the fears, quarantines and stockpiling of food, it has been easy to ignore the fact that more than 60,000 people ...World Health Organization declares the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic
Expressing alarm both about mounting infections and slow government responses, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is ...Sudan Prime Minister unharmed in assassination attempt
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok survived unharmed an assassination attempt using explosives in the capital Khartoum Monday, said his top aide. “An ...Over 20,000 migrant deaths on Mediterranean since 2014: UN
The U.N. migration agency said Friday that a shipwreck off Libya and other recent maritime incidents have raised its estimated death toll ...New virus has infected 83,000 globally, caused 2,800 deaths
A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 83,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness ...Huge locust outbreak in East Africa reaches South Sudan
The worst locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years has reached South Sudan, a country where roughly ...UN demands ‘independent, impartial’ probe of Cameroon deaths
The United Nations called on Cameroon Tuesday to conduct an independent investigation into the “shocking” killing of 23 villagers in a troubled ...Cameroon army blames accident for village ‘massacre’
Cameroon’s army on Monday denied opposition charges that it had massacred villagers in a troubled anglophone region, blaming instead an “unfortunate accident” ...Sudan says it will send former dictator Omar al-Bashir to ICC
Sudan has agreed to hand ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir and others to the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur, ...Africa holds ‘silence the guns’ summit as new conflicts grow
The annual African Union summit opened Sunday with leaders vowing that the AU would play a more prominent role in resolving conflicts ...














