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The vaccine, developed by the Oxford Jenner Institute, is already being evaluated in Britain

South Africa to start continent's first vaccine pilot

There is another Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo which has killed 2,280 people since August 2018

Fresh Ebola outbreak reported in DR Congo

Around one million tourists visit Kenya every year to see the country's famous national parks

Pandemic poachers aim to make a killing

Workers make facemasks at a factory in Accra, Ghana

Ghana lifts virus lockdown in key regions

Coronavirus / 20 Apr

Lesotho premier Thomas Thabane has promised to retire by the end of July

Lesotho army withdraws from the streets

Flooding has hit eastern Congo hard for several weeks

Floods claim lives in Democratic Republic of Congo

The countries to receive immediate debt relief are nearly all in Africa

IMF debt relief for 25 countries over Covid-19

Coronavirus / 14 Apr

People carry supplies on the streets of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

African countries unprepared for the storm

Coronavirus / 02 Apr

Members of the South African National Defence Force patrol a street in Johannesburg, South Africa, the continent's worst-affected country

Anxiety over threat of coronavirus in Africa

Coronavirus / 27 Mar

The attack early is part of an expanding jihadist campaign in the vast, marshy Lake Chad area

92 Chadian soldiers killed in attack by Boko Haram

Mozambique is generally seen as a smuggling corridor for migrants seeking to make their way to South Africa

64 found dead in freight container in Mozambique

69 people were killed in the Sharpeville massacre in 1960

South African massacre remembered 60 years on

Swarms can travel up to 150 km a day and contain between 40-80 million locusts per square kilometre

African nations racing to control locust swarms

News Lens / 27 Feb

The locusts have destroyed thousands of crops

Locusts will cause Kenya food crisis, warns Concern

Maesaiah Thabane, 42, will spend the night in custody after she came out of hiding and turned herself in to the police

Lesotho's first lady charged with killing PM's ex-wife

Daniel Arap Moi pictured in 2002

Former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi dies aged 95

Kenyan farmer Theophilus Mwendwa attempts to chase away a swarm of desert locusts, some 200km east of the capital Nairobi

Billions of locusts swarm through East Africa

The decision puts the North African country's conflict at the centre of wider regional frictions (File image)

Libya formally requests Turkish military support

World / 26 Dec 19

Seven soldiers and 80 jihadists also died in the double attack in Arbinda in Soum province (Pic: Google Maps)

Jihadists kill 35 civilians in attack in Burkina Faso

World / 25 Dec 19

The French Department of Defence issued images of the soldiers who died

13 French troops killed in helicopter collision in Mali

World / 26 Nov 19

Health workers don protective equipment before a funeral in the North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in August

Second Ebola vaccine introduced in DR Congo

World / 14 Nov 19

The cars are expected to bring in more than €17m

Supercars seized from dictator's son auctioned for €25m

World / 29 Sep 19

Officials accompany Robert Mugabe's coffin in Harare

Mugabe honoured at state funeral in Zimbabwe

Africa / 14 Sep 19

Several construction projects launched in recent years with the help of international funding had to be temporarily suspended due to security threats

Protest in Mali over 'obstacle course' roads

News Lens / 11 Sep 19

It is the fourth trip to the continent for Pope Francis during his pontificate

Pope Francis begins three-nation visit to Africa

World / 04 Sep 19

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