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Veteran Congolese musician Kasongo wa Kanema has passed on from his home in Langata, a Nairobi suburb where he has...

As the world battles COVID-19, farmers in East Africa are facing another devastating outbreak: swarms of desert locusts. The International...

A prominent Richmond-area evangelical pastor died on the eve of Easter after contracting the novel coronavirus. Bishop Gerald Glenn, founder...

The justice minister of Somalia's autonomous Hirshabelle state, Khalif Mumin Tohow, has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, the second...

The Chairperson of the African Union, President of the Republic of South Africa His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Dr...

Ahead of an expected surge in cases of COVID-19 in Africa, the African Union and the Africa Centres for Disease...

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has risen to more than 10,000 and caused more than 500 deaths....

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned as "racist" the comments by two French doctors who suggested...

South Sudan reported its first coronavirus case on Sunday, one of the last African nations to confirm the presence of...

Tanzania confirmed its first coronavirus death on Tuesday, health minister Ummy Mwalimu said in a statement. The 49-year-old Tanzanian male,...