Ghana has announced a two-week lockdown in the country's two main regions from Monday to curb the spread of coronavirus.The ...

ALGIERS - An Algerian journalist was arrested on Friday, press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said, accusing the country's ...

ACCRA - As cases of COVID-19 increase in Ghana and supplies of face masks dwindle globally, one NGO is collaborating ...

Morocco's economy ministry said on Friday it had allocated two billion dirhams ($201 million) to bolster medical equipment needed to ...

The normally bustling markets have thinned out and the notoriously clogged roads are eerily free: Lagos is lurching towards shutdown ...

Ugandan police said on Friday that two men were in hospital after being shot for violating restrictions on transport in ...

The World Health Organisation's regional director for Africa on Friday warned the continent faced a "dramatic evolution" of the coronavirus ...

Malians on vote Sunday in a long-delayed parliamentary election, despite a raging jihadist conflict, the recent kidnap of a leading ...

South Africans on Friday began the first day of a three-week nationwide lockdown aimed at stemming the tide of coronavirus ...

WASHINGTON - Major U.S. stock indexes advanced 3% or more in Thursday trading, while European markets also moved up and ...

Nigeria's government on Thursday warned that Africa's most populous nation could soon see an "exponential" increase in coronavirus infections unless ...

Nigerians are bracing for a partial lockdown from Thursday as authorities try to contain the spread of coronavirus cases in ...

Ethiopia is set to begin releasing more than 4,000 prisoners Thursday in an effort to slow the spread of the ...

Nigeria on Wednesday received test kits and protective gear from China's richest man, Jack Ma, to help fight coronavirus, which ...

South Africa begins a 21-day lockdown at midnight Thursday aimed at stopping the country's rising number of coronavirus cases, with ...

Libya has reported its first case of the novel coronavirus, a particular source of concern in the North African country ...

Ethiopia announced Wednesday it would free thousands of inmates from the country's overcrowded prisons as part of a bid to ...

Authorities in Sudan have ordered the release of thousands of prisoners to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading in the ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA - In Uganda, authorities have confirmed five new cases of COVID-19, among them an eight-month-old baby and two ...

Emmanuel N'Djoke Dibango - Manu Dibango - will live forever thanks to his Afropolitan sounds, and to the fact that ...