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Lockdowns aimed at halting the march of the coronavirus pandemic have extended worldwide as the global death toll mounts and…

President Donald Trump has extended emergency coronavirus restrictions for the United States, where his top scientist warned up to 200,000…

Spain reported a national daily record of 838 coronavirus deaths on Sunday in a fresh warning to the world that…

South Africa came under a nationwide military-patrolled lockdown on Friday, joining other African countries imposing strict curfews and shutdowns in…

Equipment shortages, scarce beds and poorly-paid doctors and nurses: Africa is finding that it has few means to protect itself…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The West African nation of Mali has roughly one ventilator per 1 million people — 20…

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni called for an urgent African summit on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), during a meeting with…

Sudanese women were at the forefront of the protests that toppled autocrat Omar al-Bashir but 11 months on, activists are…

A ‘pandemic’ of air pollution shortens lives worldwide by nearly three years on average, and causes 8.8 million premature deaths…

Volunteers gathered to clear a beach strewn with used compresses, dirty needles and vials of blood on Saturday, apparently discarded…