Some countries around the world have already started administering a Covid-19 vaccine to test how it works in non-trial conditions. But how will African countries get the vaccine, and when might that be? BBC Africa Health reporter Rhoda Odhiambo answers some of
YAOUNDE — There has been widespread condemnation of separatists in Cameroon for a string of attacks and abductions of traditional village chiefs. Anglophone rebels released two chiefs on Monday but killed another for defying their demand not to participate in
The two countries reached an agreement in October for Sudan to be lifted from the list. The settlement required Sudan to pay $335 million for victims of the 1998 twin bombings against the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state, police said, while the president said the military was in gunfights with bandits in a forest as
The first shipment of international aid since fighting began arrived in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region Saturday to help people affected by violence there. A convoy carrying medicine and relief supplies from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration moved forward with $1 billion in sales of drones and precision-guided weapons to Morocco on Friday, sending a notice to Congress about the potential deals, according to sources familiar with the notification. The
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The decision follows a decade-long investigation into the conflict with Boko Haram militants.
NAIROBI — A Kenyan court awarded compensation to four women who were sexually abused during the violence that followed the disputed 2007 presidential election. Thursday’s judgment marks the first time a Kenyan court has recognized victims of sexual abuse from
shareSharenocloseShare pagelinkCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightDisney/Kugali The pledge by Ugandan animator Hamid Ibrahim to the BBC that his team’s work is “going to kick Disney’s ass” certainly got the company’s attention. Two years on