Africa's confirmed coronavirus cases have surpassed 1 million, but global health experts say the true toll is likely several times higher, reflecting the gaping lack of testing for the continent's 1.3 billion people.
While experts say infection (...)
Nigeria will reopen for international air travel in a matter of weeks, the aviation minister said on Thursday, without giving a specific date for the resumption after months of closure due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
"It will be in weeks (...)
Nigeria's largest airline Air Peace said Tuesday it had laid off a number of pilots and cut salaries in order to cope with the impact of the coronavirus on its operations.
The private carrier did not disclose the number of pilots affected, but (...)
Suspected militants from Islamist group Boko Haram killed at least 13 people and wounded eight others in a grenade attack in northern Cameroon on Sunday, a security source and a local official told Reuters.
The unidentified assailants threw a (...)
More than 50 players and staff members at soccer clubs in Zambia's top flight have tested positive for COVID-19 in an outbreak that the national association says was caused by teams failing to properly implement measures to stop its spread, leading (...)
LAGOS, نيجيريا, 2020 يونيو 28/ —
وصلت بطولة نيجيريا لكرة القدم الحرة لهذا العام إلى نهاية مثيرة يوم السبت 25 يوليو 2020 مع بروز كل من بنيامين إبونج وأوغسطينا أونامبا، كلاهما أبطال، كفائزين في المباريات التنافسية التي عقدت على الإنترنت.
واستضافت Feet (...)
The House on Wednesday voted to repeal the Trump administration's travel ban and further restrict the president's power to limit entry to the U.S., a symbolic victory for Muslim American and civil rights groups.
The bill, which passed the (...)
Total confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa have passed 750,000, a Reuters tally of government and World Health Organization data showed on Wednesday.
The tally showed the continent had 751,151 cases, 15,721 deaths and 407,461 recoveries. Cases (...)
The task of the historian is to tell the story of the past.
He cannot lose sight of acts and facts, bitter as they may seem at present. History is a science to be written scientifically, to be studied scientifically.
Re-writing history fades into (...)
Italian prosecutors have asked for oil majors Eni and Shell to be fined and some of their present and former executives, including Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi, to be jailed in a long-running trial over alleged corruption in Nigeria.
In one of the oil (...)
Pirates have kidnapped seven Russian sailors from the crew of a ship in the Gulf of Guinea, the Russian Embassy in Nigeria said on Monday.
The seven Russians were among 13 crew members pirates abducted from the Curacao Trader 210 miles off the coast (...)
Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19, and became the first member of President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet to contract the new coronavirus.
Onyeama, 64, said on Twitter he had taken a COVID-19 (...)
Lille's Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen is on the verge of completing a move to Italian side Napoli after passing a medical on Saturday, Nigerian media reported on Sunday.
According to the local reports, French side Lille have agreed a €80m deal but (...)
Africa's coronavirus caseload has climbed above 600,000 as the pandemic on the 54-nation continent continues to pick up speed.
Africa surpassed the half-million case mark less than a week ago. The continent now has more than 610,000 confirmed cases. (...)
اندلع حريق في أحد أبراج مركز التجارة العالمي في العاصمة النيجيرية أبوجا، اليوم الاثنين، وتم السيطرة عليه، حسبما ذكر موقع "روسيا اليوم".
وتظهر لقطات الفيديو الملتقطة للحريق، عمودًا كبيرًا من الدخان يتصاعد من الطوابق العليا، الذي لا يزال قيد (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has ratified the appointment of new ambassadors to several foreign capitals, including Washington, local media reported on Monday.
The president ratified the appointment of ambassadors Moatez Zahran to (...)
أعلنت حملة "أنقذوا الأرواح أنقذوا إفريقيا" أنها تقدمت بعدة خطابات رسمية حمل كل منها توقيع أكثر من 150 منظمة إفريقية وعربية وشخصيات عامة تنتمي لعدد 20 دولة إفريقية، وبعضها من آسيا وأوروبا وأمريكا الشمالية.
وأشار عثمان موسى منسق الحملة، إلى أنه تم (...)
Amwal Al Ghad has interviewed Moustafa Moussa – Local Partner at Bahaa-Eldin Law Office in cooperation with BonelliErede – on Tuesday, tackling key areas related to the impact of the coronavirus crisis and ways to offset its repercussions. The (...)
Africa now has more than a half-million confirmed coronavirus cases.
The continent-wide total is now at least over 504,000 after South Africa recorded another day of more than 10,000 confirmed cases as a new global hot spot.
The true number of cases (...)
The Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (CIFET), organised by Egypt's Ministry of Culture, will kick off its 27th edition online on 1 September.
The festival's new management announced that this year's edition will be held online (...)
As COVID-19 cases surged in many parts of the world, the island nation of the Seychelles was looking good: 70-plus straight days without a single infection. Then the planes arrived.
Two chartered Air Seychelles flights carrying more than 200 (...)
There's an old, and somewhat overused, saying attributed to Winston Churchill that is nevertheless appropriate in these uncertain times: never let a good crisis go to waste.
A global pandemic certainly qualifies as a crisis, but what good can we (...)
A Reuters tally showed new U.S. COVID-19 cases rose by nearly 50,000 on Wednesday, the biggest one-day spike on record, a day after the government's top infectious diseases expert warned that daily cases could double to 100,000 if the necessary (...)
A protest against Africa's first COVID-19 vaccine trial was underway Wednesday as experts note a worrying level of resistance and misinformation around testing on the continent.
Anti-vaccine sentiment in Africa is ``the worst I've ever seen,'' the (...)
The Saudi authorities have taken a compromise decision on the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, by allowing a limited number of local pilgrims to perform the ritual in the week of the end of July and beginning of August due to (...)
