Africa

A health worker talks to her colleagues as they prepare to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi
Coronavirus chronicle

Vaccine hesitancy slows Africa's Covid-19 inoculation drive

Health experts worry that public scepticism about taking the relatively small number of doses African countries have battled to procure could prolong a pandemic that has already killed more than 3...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame arrives for the inauguration of Cyril Ramaphosa as South African president, at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa May 25, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
World

Rwanda, Africa’s good-news story gone bad

The vaccine allegedly "stimulates broad antibody and T cell functions Photo: Medical Xpress
Coronavirus chronicle

India AstraZeneca shot delay could be 'catastrophic' for Africa: Health official

A nurse awaits to receive a dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Prince Mshiyeni Hospital in Umlazi, south of Durban. Photographer: Mlunggisi Mbele/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg
Analysis

How Africa can save the world from a never-ending pandemic

FILE PHOTO: Biomedical engineers pack a consignment of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines under the COVAX scheme against coronavirus disease (Covid-19), before distribution at the Kitengela cold rooms stores in Kitengela, outside Nairobi, Kenya March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi
Coronavirus chronicle

'Coronavirus can't kill me now'; Africans cheer rollout of COVAX vaccinations

File Photo: Small bottles labelled with a "Vaccine Covid-19" sticker and a medical syringe are seen in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Donors bet a US firm could transform disease testing in Africa. Then Covid-19 hit

FILE PHOTO: A health worker checks the temperature of a traveller as part of the coronavirus screening procedure at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

First Covid-19 COVAX vaccine doses administered in Africa

File Photo: A member of the medical staff holds a vial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Foch hospital in Suresnes, near Paris, France, February 8, 2021. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Coronavirus chronicle

India sends first vaccine doses to Africa under WHO's Covax programme

FILE PHOTO: A coronavirus disease patient holds up his hand inside the COVID-19 ICU of Machakos Level 5 Hospital, in Machakos, Kenya October 28, 2020. Picture taken October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Africa Covid-19 deaths surpass 100,000 after second wave

Raila Odinga, Kenya's former Prime Minister and the African Union (AU) High Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Nairobi, Kenya February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Global Economy

African Union to set up infrastructure fund for the continent

A Congolese health worker administers ebola vaccine to a child at the Himbi Health Centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 17, 2019/ Reuters
World

Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, DRC stoke new fears in Africa

Filamentous Ebola virus particles (coloured blue) budding from a chronically-infected VERO E6 cell (coloured yellow). File Photo: Alamy
World

Guinea records first Ebola deaths since 2016

Picture: Reuters
World

Thirteen dead, thousands homeless in southern Africa after storm Eloise