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India’s health ministry reported on Saturday that daily COVID-19 deaths in the country have risen by 387, bringing the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to at least 479,520. COVID cases have also risen by…

A quarter of the more than 4,000 flights cancelled worldwide on Friday and Saturday were in the US, according to website Flightaware. The issue came amid crews testing positive, or being forced to self-isolate to stem the…

South Africa has demanded a halt to an auction of the key to the prison cell on Robben Island once occupied by former President Nelson Mandela. The sale is due in January in New York by Guernsey's auction house. The seller is…

Former prime minister, Gordon Brown says the failure to distribute vaccines to poorer countries is a "stain on our global soul." He said people were realising coronavirus would "come back to haunt" every country, without a push…

Libya's election commission has called for the country's first presidential poll, due to take place on Friday, to be postponed for a month. It proposed the new date of 24 January after "liaising" with parliament, the commission…

A Tunisian court on Wednesday issued a verdict in absentia sentencing former president Moncef Marzouki to four years in prison after he criticised President Kais Saied and called for protests. The court found against Marzouki…

The United Nations Human Rights Office said on Tuesday that it had received 13 allegations of rape and gang rape by security forces during protests in Sudan on Sunday, while opposition medics reported a second person killed.…

Madagascan government minister has said he swam for 12 hours to safety after his helicopter crashed at sea during a rescue mission. "It's not my time to die," exhausted Police Minister Serge Gelle said as he recovered on a…

A brawl has broken out in Ghana's parliament during a late-night session over a contentious government-proposed levy on electronic transactions. MPs shoved, pushed and threw punches at each other, while others tried to stop the fighting.…

French billionaire Vincent Bollore has received a 5.7 billion-euro, $6.43 billion, offer from Mediterranean Shipping Company, MSC, for his African logistics assets, a deal that would transform his family group just two months…