ABUJA – A first batch of more than 400 Nigerians who fled Ukraine following the Russian invasion were flown home on Friday. The group, most of whom were students, arrived shortly after 0630 GMT on a chartered flight from Romania’s capital Bucharest, one of the hubs from where African governments are scrambling to extract stranded … Read more
ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) — The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 10,327,787 cases as of Sunday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU) said the death toll across the continent stands at 234,267 with 9,224,148 recoveries … Read more
At least 52 people died when an illegal gold mine collapsed due to landsliding in northern Republic of Chad in north-central Africa. Government officials initially said as many as 30 people may have died when the mine caved in on Tuesday in Kouri Bougoudi, in Tibesti province, near the Libyan border, an area rife with … Read more
