Kenya’s Health Ministry has heightened surveillance at border entry points and created an Ebola hotline for citizens to ...

Kenya is not in the grips of an ebola outbreak, the country's health secretary insisted on Wednesday, in the wake of Kenya's ...

In southern Madagascar, residents are bracing themselves for the impact due in the coming months of the El Nino warming ...

Africa will launch its own credit rating agency on Wednesday, aimed at countering what many see as unfair assessments by ...

Ghana's cabinet has given the green light to a decision to formally apply to join the BRICS geopolitical and economic bloc, ...

French scientist Henri B Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai have been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for offering a solution ...

Several Nairobi residents expressed fear and concern on Wednesday, a day after Kenyan authorities announced the country's first-ever Ebola death.

Eritrean troops have been deployed in recent days around the town of Adigrat, in Ethiopia's Tigray region, a local official and residents told AFP on Wednesday.

Israelis are gathering Wednesday to commemorate the third anniversary of the October 7 attack that killed 1,200 people and ...

It says the north-eastern region now accounts for nearly 40 per cent of all newly confirmed incidents nationwide.

South Africa is aiming to host the first ever Olympics on the African continent. This after it was named as one of seven ...

Uganda's Capital Markets Authority on Tuesday approved the participation of its domestic investors in the Dangote Petroleum Refinery's initial public offering.