A cyclone killed at least 10 people in southeastern Madagascar, the second to hit the Indian Ocean island in just two weeks, triggering floods, bringing down buildings and cutting power, officials said on Sunday.One of the worst-hit towns was Nosy Vari…

ADDIS ABABA— President of the Republic of Senegal Macky Sall has been elected as the new Chairperson of the African Union for the year 2022 by Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU).The event took place during the ongoing 35th Ordinary…

South African pharmaceutical company Afrigen is the first on the continent to make an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine using Moderna’s publicly available data. The company hopes to start clinical trials of the vaccine in November.Afrigen is one of the companies t…

WASHINGTON— US President Joe Biden has appointed the son of businessman and politician in Ghana, Paa Kwesi Nduom, to an enviable job.Dr. Edjah Nduom will lead the fight against cancer in a “Cancer Moonshot Program,” a tweet accompanied with photos show…

The chairman of the West African bloc ECOWAS said a surge of coups since a military government took power in Mali in 2020 must be contained before it devastates the whole region.At the opening of a second ECOWAS summit on dealing with the January coup …

U.N. agencies in Malawi have started providing aid to victims from Tropical Storm Ana, which killed scores of people across southeastern Africa and left tens of thousands homeless. The U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF, has provided personal hygiene and w…