Africa's top health body says it is concerned about the growing number of monkeypox cases in the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Canada and the United States.
Kenya's Tourism Minister, Najib Balala, has told the BBC more than 70 elephants have died in the last year as a result of the ongoing drought affecting all of East Africa.
Gabon has reported a first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, on a farm in the northern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Thursday.
The United States has determined that Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film "Hotel Rwanda" sheltering hundreds of people during the African nation's 1994 genocide, has been "wrongfully detained," the State Department said on Thursday.
The United States (US) has said it will provide a further $215 million in emergency aid to 10 African countries as the continent struggles with food insecurity brought about by climate change, the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
The Director and Vice-Chancellor for South Africa’s Stellenbosch University, Professor Wim De Villiers, says an independent Commission of Inquiry will be set up at the institution to deal with race and gender inequalities among others.