COVID-19 tests can now be done in Mandera following the launch of a Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) laboratory in the county. Governor Ali...
Cameroon says it has again closed more than 60 schools on its northern border with Nigeria to save children and teaching staff from increasing Boko ...
BBC Africa Eye has been given unprecedented access to Somalia’s only Covid-19 ward at the Martini hospital in Mogadishu, where two young doctors are...
Several Nairobi churches and Jamia Mosque have announced that they will remain closed despite a directive allowing them to re-open. Jamia Mosque, A...
In 2017, Sarah Hegazi was arrested and said she was tortured for waving a rainbow gay pride flag at a concert in Cairo. Last weekend, the 30-year...
A majority 59 percent of Kenyans have expressed support for the reopening of places of worship as government mulls a further ease to restrictions on p...
As Burundi enters a period of mourning for President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died Monday, his leadership during the coronavirus pandemic is being scrut...
Fears of a second COVID-19 wave of infections shut six major food markets in Beijing on Friday, while India, which opened up this week, recorded a rec...
A meeting of the national and county governments convened today by President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House, Nairobi agreed on a raft of Covid-19 respo...
The Nigerian government has lifted restrictions placed on religious gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. The previous ban on religious and s...
Deputy President William Ruto has come out to distance himself from the distribution of relief food branded his foundation that has affected residents...
On just one day this month, 50 Tanzanian truck drivers tested positive for the coronavirus after crossing into neighboring Kenya. Back home, their pre...
Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has hinted on a Kibra lockdown after 8 more people tested positive for coronavirus. Speaking after a tour of Machakos Level ...
The Government has extended its directive on cessation of movement directive in Nairobi's Eastleigh estate and Mombasa's Old Town in efforts to contai...
Kenya has recorded 30 more cases of the novel coronavirus bringing the total to 465. Health CAS Dr. Rashid Aman said the new cases are from 883 sam...
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho has threatened that residents of Old Town in Monbasa will be tested for coronavirus by force should they not participate ...
Thursday marks the start of the holy month of Ramadan for many Muslims. But with so many places of worship closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, ...
Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus epidemi...
One of the earliest known Greek poets, identified by the single name Hesiod once said: “A bad neighbour is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a ...
Tanzania confirmed its first coronavirus death on Tuesday, health minister Ummy Mwalimu said in a statement. The 49-year-old Tanzanian man had been...