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Cameroon’s Health Ministry has suspended administration of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine it was scheduled to receive on March 20 as part of the global vaccines sharing scheme COVAX. The ministry said in a statement on March 18, that the…

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is set to adopt more stringent measures as it records a surge in Covid-19 infections. On Saturday, 295 new infections were reported for Thursday and 132 for Friday, though health experts believe the true numbers…

Prime Minister of Libya’s New Unity Government said on Friday that he had instructed the Attorney General to open an investigation into the discovery of bodies in Benghazi. Local media said more than a dozen of people’s bodies shot dead…

A volcano has erupted south-west of Iceland's capital Reykjavik, the country's meteorological office says. It says the fissure is about 500-700 metres long (1,640-2,300feet) at Fagradalsfjall on Reykjanes peninsula. The last eruption…

United Nations Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet has agreed to an Ethiopian request for a joint investigation in the country’s northern Tigray region, where Bachelet says possible war crimes may have been committed. Fighting between…

Malian Armed Forces on Wednesday confirmed that the death toll of the recent attack on Malian army in the region of Gao rose to 33, with 14 Malian soldiers injured, making this the deadliest attack on Malian army this year. More than 100…

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptics, has died aged 61, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday. Hassan said he died from a heart disease that had plagued him for a decade.…

A leading international aid group says children as young as 11 years are being beheaded by Islamist militants in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado. A woman told Save the Children she'd had to watch helplessly as her…

US Special Operations Forces will train Mozambican marines for two months to fight the jihadist insurgency in the North-eastern Cabo Delgado province, the United States Embassy in Maputo said on Monday. Armed groups, known locally as…

Ugandan politician and singer, Robert Kyagulanyi popularly known as Bobi Wine, has been arrested while leading a peaceful demonstration demanding the release of hundreds of his supporters who went missing after they were arrested during and…