Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa has died age 81 in a Dar es Salaam hospital, the government announced Friday. Mkapa was third Tanzanian president after independence from Britain in 1962 and ruled for two terms from 1995 to 2005. “I’m saddened by the death of the third president of Tanzania and that is a big […]

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has gone into quarantine after the head of his political office tested positive for coronavirus late on Thursday, the government press office said in a statement. READ ALSO: Fourth night of mass protests against corruption in Bulgaria Borissov, 61, whose first test for coronavirus came out negative, will stay in self-isolation […]

A Vietnamese man has tested positive for COVID-19 in the central city of Da Nang, ending a period of 99 days in which Vietnam had recorded no community transmissions, state media reported on Friday. Doctors initially suspected the patient, a 57-year-old man local to the area, had contracted pneumonia, yet coronavirus tests came back from […]

The African Development Bank (AfDB) said Thursday it would provide $285 million in aid to Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad to help them fight the coronavirus pandemic. The aid was being provided within the framework of a $10-billion COVID-19 response facility unveiled by the AfDB in April. Niger would receive support of $108.8 […]

The bodies of 28 Sudanese army officers involved in a failed coup against former president Omar al-Bashir in 1990 have been found in a mass grave, prosecutors said on Thursday. It is the second mass grave discovered since Bashir, who ruled the African country for three decades and ruthlessly crushed dissent, was overthrown by the […]