The Latest Breaking News from Africa

JULY 15-21, 2022

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will kick off a tour of Africa next week that includes Egypt, which he described as Moscow’s “number one” partner in the continent. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said his trip, from July 24 to 28, will include Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic…

A 150 million-year-old marine invertebrate unearthed in Africa has been named after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

It has been on trips through Africa and South America.

Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson Mandela as South Africa’s second post-apartheid president, celebrated his 80th birthday on 18 June 2022. Following Mandela’s era of multiracial and multicultural rainbowism, Mbeki had to squarely address the challenges of acute inequality and the numerous grievances of the black majority caused by colonialism and…

Among those worst affected by the blockade are those in the Horn of Africa.

As the World Health Organization announces the next step in its rollout of the world’s first authorized malaria vaccine in three African countries, concerns about its value have come from an unlikely source: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, arguably the vaccine’s biggest backer

The World Health Organization is convening its emergency committee to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis

Forty years ago this summer, Christian Okoye left Nigeria to attend Azusa Pacific on a track and field scholarship.

Only one in seven people in low-income countries are fully vaccinated with poorest pushed to the ‘back of the queue’

As monkeypox infections jump around the world, prompting a scramble for vaccines, AFP looks at how the disease has spread since first appearing in Africa in the 1970s.