The parachuting of former UK Well being Secretary Matt Hancock right into a United Nations function to help Africa’s post-Covid restoration defies perception. It’s a tone-deaf appointment that rewards incompetence and smacks of colonialism. ...

Nations in Africa assessed as being least weak to an epidemic have been the worst affected by Covid-19, new analysis suggests.

The current coup in Guinea, a serious international provider of the primary ore used for aluminum manufacturing, despatched costs for the steel skyrocketing, as navy leaders within the West African nation are urging the miners to maintain working. ...

A Kiev-born Tokyo 2020 Olympics gold medalist took to social media on Friday afternoon to clarify racist abuse he suffered on the streets of the Ukrainian capital the place he was instructed to "Go to Africa" and referred to as a "black monkey". ...

The complete South Africa soccer staff have been pressured to quarantine after two gamers turned the primary athletes in Tokyo's Olympic Village to check optimistic for Covid-19, whereas Japan's captain has known as for followers to be allowed in. ...

Widespread looting and burning has killed over 100, and wrecked factories, outlets and houses, with Indian and whites more and more the goal. Is the nation I like, the place I spent 30 years of my life, spiralling into racial warfare? ...

Washington has lengthy considered the nation as a vital companion in a key area, however the brand new sanctions it is simply imposed on the Addis Ababa authorities might backfire and push it nearer to Beijing. ...

Egypt is a extremely strategic associate within the Center East, and the China-Iran bloc is seeking to develop affect in Africa by the extension of a present oil pipeline that runs from Iraq to Jordan. ...

The officer chargeable for all US navy operations and actions in Africa is worried about the potential for a Chinese language navy base on Africa’s west coast. Apparently, his hubris has blinded him to his hypocrisy. ...

The primary coronavirus vaccine cargo to South Africa has arrived within the nation, because it struggles with the continent’s highest caseload alongside a extra transmissible pressure of the virus. ...