Militia attacks in DR Congo’s volatile east disrupted the start of school final exams Monday with hundreds of students fleeing violence and some girls raped by the attackers, officials said. The school-leaving exams had already been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic and began on Monday. In Sud-Kivu province, about 700 students and their teachers […]

Guinea’s ruling party on Monday confirmed months of speculation that President Alpha Conde will seek a third term in office, a possibility that had already sparked deadly mass protests. The news came after the 82-year-old president pushed through a constitutional reform in March that critics had already argued was designed to allow him to run […]

Zimbabwe on Monday offered to give back land to former white farmers whose properties were seized during the controversial land reforms two decades ago. A month ago the government signed a US$3.5 billion compensation agreement with the white farmers for the land lost 20 years ago to sometimes violent land grabs. Then president, Robert Mugabe, […]

Russia will begin large-scale provision of the coronavirus vaccine in September, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Monday. “The vaccines will be supplied first and foremost to health care workers and teachers,” Murashko said in comments carried by state news agency TASS. The vaccination “will be absolutely voluntary,” Murashko said. Russia was the first country […]

The number of coronavirus cases in the United States topped 6 million on Monday, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University, while global cases have exceeded 25 million. The country has by far the highest number of confirmed infections in the world, followed by Brazil, at almost 3.9 million, and India, which has recorded […]