Africa

FILE PHOTO: Biomedical engineers pack a consignment of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines under the COVAX scheme against coronavirus disease (Covid-19), before distribution at the Kitengela cold rooms stores in Kitengela, outside Nairobi, Kenya March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi
Coronavirus chronicle

'Coronavirus can't kill me now'; Africans cheer rollout of COVAX vaccinations

While some wealthy Western nations have already inoculated millions of people, many African states have struggled to secure doses and have yet to administer a single shot

File Photo: Small bottles labelled with a "Vaccine Covid-19" sticker and a medical syringe are seen in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Donors bet a US firm could transform disease testing in Africa. Then Covid-19 hit

FILE PHOTO: A health worker checks the temperature of a traveller as part of the coronavirus screening procedure at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

First Covid-19 COVAX vaccine doses administered in Africa

File Photo: A member of the medical staff holds a vial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Foch hospital in Suresnes, near Paris, France, February 8, 2021. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Coronavirus chronicle

India sends first vaccine doses to Africa under WHO's Covax programme

FILE PHOTO: A coronavirus disease patient holds up his hand inside the COVID-19 ICU of Machakos Level 5 Hospital, in Machakos, Kenya October 28, 2020. Picture taken October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Africa Covid-19 deaths surpass 100,000 after second wave

Raila Odinga, Kenya's former Prime Minister and the African Union (AU) High Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Nairobi, Kenya February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Global Economy

African Union to set up infrastructure fund for the continent

A Congolese health worker administers ebola vaccine to a child at the Himbi Health Centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 17, 2019/ Reuters
World+Biz

Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, DRC stoke new fears in Africa

Filamentous Ebola virus particles (coloured blue) budding from a chronically-infected VERO E6 cell (coloured yellow). File Photo: Alamy
World+Biz

Guinea records first Ebola deaths since 2016

Picture: Reuters
World+Biz

Thirteen dead, thousands homeless in southern Africa after storm Eloise

A woman who fled from attacks of armed militants in the Sahel region walks with her children at a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kaya, Burkina Faso November 23, 2020. Picture taken November 23, 2020. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
World+Biz

Violence in West Africa's Sahel displaces record 2 million people, UN says

Paola Subacchi, professor, University of London. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

China’s debt grip on Africa

African leaders. Picture: Collected
World+Biz

Africa's longest-serving leaders

Cranes and containers seen at APM Terminals at the gateway port in Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
Global Economy

African free trade bloc opens for business, but challenges remain