The U.N. refugee agency says intercommunal fighting over scarce resources in Cameroon has triggered the mass exodus of more than 30,000 refugees to neighboring Chad.Deadly clashes erupted December 5 in the Cameroonian border village of Ouloumsa followi…
Courts across Zimbabwe have been ordered to close due to COVID-19 cases among staff members.In a statement, the Judicial Service Commission said the shutdown on Wednesday and Thursday of its head office in the capital Harare and courts across the count…
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has detected its first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.Official said Thursday the infection was found in a 57-year-old unvaccinated woman in Karachi, the country’s largest city and capital of the southern Sindh provi…
South Africa recorded more than 20,000 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, nearly double the number from one week earlier. The government is making a renewed push for people to get vaccinated, but so far is avoiding new lockdown measures, in an effort to …
Seven peacekeepers from the West African nation of Togo were killed Wednesday when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in central Mali, according to the United Nations.U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters that three other Tog…
Burundi’s government says 38 prisoners were killed in a fire Tuesday morning in Gitega, the country’s political capital.Vice President Prosper Bazombanza announced the deaths. More than 60 other people have been injured and the death toll could rise.Th…
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa is preparing its hospitals for more admissions, as the Omicron coronavirus variant pushes the country into a fourth wave of COVID-19 cases, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.Omicron was first detected in southern Afri…
HOUSTON, The World Petroleum Congress, the largest triennial gathering for the industry, kicked off yesterday in Houston, the largest city of south central U.S. state Texas, amid the shadow of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19 and the unce…
