Raino Bolz quickly diversified when his tourism business in South Africa's winelands crashed to a halt in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. He sold a minibus _ useless without tourists to ferry around _ and bought a herd of pregnant (...)
As a young girl growing up in northern Zimbabwe's mining community of Mashonaland, Beatrice Savadye watched as her friends were forced into child marriages and early motherhood while many became sick with HIV.
Wanting a different life for herself (...)
Zimbabwe's military and police are arresting scores of opposition members and activists after authorities thwarted an anti-government protest last week, according to rights groups.
More than 60 people have been arrested so far in the continuing (...)
The U.N. food agency on Thursday appealed for an additional $250 million to provide relief to millions of Zimbabweans as the COVID-19 pandemic bites and warned that 60% of the population could become "food-insecure".
Zimbabwe is gripped by a (...)
The United States on Tuesday summoned Zimbabwe's ambassador after the ruling party insulted the US envoy in Harare and accused him of fomenting anti-corruption protests.
Patrick Chinamasa, spokesman for the ruling Zanu-PF party, on Monday called US (...)
A pandemic-delayed African free trade deal, if fully implemented, could boost incomes across the continent, pull millions out of poverty and cushion against the negative fallout from COVID-19, the World Bank wrote in a report on Monday.
The African (...)
Drinking alcohol will kill the coronavirus. It is OK to share face masks. Africans cannot get COVID-19. The pandemic is not even real.
These are some of the coronavirus myths that a team of 20 Zimbabwean youth have been busting online since the (...)
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 (...)
Lessons via radio or TV. Math problems in newspapers. Classes on Zoom or WhatsApp.
The options for African students to keep studying while schools remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic seem varied, but the reality for many is that they (...)
“Never Again,”. It was a solemn promise made three-quarters of a century ago to humanity.
In the aftermath of WWII and the atomic bomb of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United Nations was established by a group of nations on 24 October 1945 to keep (...)
The national congress of Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party on Saturday endorsed President John Magufuli as its candidate in the country's general election slated for October this year.
Magufuli, who is seeking to be re-elected for a (...)
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 (...)
Statues and other monuments have always been powerful symbols expressing people's sentiments and aspirations and at times their desire for immortality. Some have been crafted to glorify figures from official history or have been of people considered (...)
Martha Kahari was already struggling to make ends meet after Zimbabwe's coronavirus lockdown forced her to stop selling second-hand clothes and tomatoes at the side of the road in the capital Harare.
Then the council came to tear down her (...)
Zimbabwe's grain deficit is expected to widen to 1.17 million tonnes this year despite a small increase in production, the latest official crop report showed on Saturday, leaving the majority of the population facing food shortages.
The ministry of (...)
Zimbabwean film Cook Off, a romance about a struggling single mother who finds love during a cooking competition, premiered on Netflix on Monday, a debut that its makers hope will propel the country's small film sector to global audiences.
Zimbabwe (...)
African countries have adopted different measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The majority of the continent's countries have enforced traditional measures, such as the closure of schools, imposing curfews and banning religious, (...)
A loud hiss and grunt come from a green bag pressing air through a tube, as Senegalese researchers work to develop a prototype ventilator that could cost a mere $160 each instead of tens of thousands of dollars.
The team is using 3-D printed parts (...)
Africa's total number of the novel coronavirus cases has increased to 22,528 infections, of which 5,656 cases have recovered and discharged from hospitals, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures. The WHO also reported that (...)
The total number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in Africa increased on Wednesday to 16,509 cases. Of these cases, 3,301 recoveries and 879 deaths have been confirmed, according to the latest Africa Centre for Disease Control and (...)
Several African countries have demanded that China address their concerns that Africans in Guangzhou city are being mistreated and harassed amid fears there of a potential spread of coronavirus from imported cases.
In recent days Africans in the (...)
The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading question: When would family planning services return?
Lockdowns imposed to curb the coronavirus' spread have put millions of women in Africa, Asia and (...)
The United Nations food agency has negotiated a humanitarian corridor to keep food aid flowing in southern Africa after most countries shut their borders to stop the spread of coronavirus, an official said on Thursday.
Up to 45 million people in (...)
Angola on Saturday confirmed its first two cases of coronavirus, while Mauritius recorded its first death as the virus spreads across Africa.
The continent has been slower to feel the impact than Asia or Europe, and most of its reported cases have (...)
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