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Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened…

Officials from the World Health Organization said that some African countries may experience peak coronavirus infection in the coming weeks,…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading…

A sense of death stalking the hospital ward, fear of dying alone, tearful despair and disarray at home, solitude, anger…

Britain’s prime minister was battling the coronavirus in intensive care Tuesday, the highest-profile case in the pandemic as the United…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Some of Uganda’s poorest people used to work here, on the streets of Kampala, as fruit…

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has soared past one million and fatalities have topped 50,000 as…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda see the coronavirus as a threat, but some of their…

Confirmed coronavirus infections around the world approached one million Thursday as the pandemic spread at a “near-exponential” rate, with a…