African countries have been urged to intensify domestic health financing agenda so as to control future public health shocks in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that affected the health and socioeconomic state of the continent

South African universities made a strong showing on a list of African universities released by a ranking site. Eight of the top ten varsities were in South Africa with the other two from Egypt.

It was 1953 when the white colonials came for her in Babadi, a village in the Kasai region of what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), then a Belgian colony. She was four, the child of a Black Congolese woman and a white Belgian colonial agent. Because she was mixed-race, she would be forced to leave her family and live at a Catholic mission. If she stayed, there would be repercussions: the men – farmers, hunters and protectors of the village – would be forcibly recruited into military duty and taken away. When the time came to leave, her mother was not there to say goodbye. She had left, unable to watch her daughter go.

Teraco Data Environments Ltd., Africa’s largest data-center company, raised 2.5 billion rand (US$170 million) to fund the construction of a new facility in South Africa.

Africa has recorded nearly 82,000 deaths due to the coronavirus in its second wave, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The figure is higher than when the first wave of the virus hit the continent in 2020.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Wednesday commended the African Export-Import Bank for filling the financial gap in accessing COVID-19 vaccine across Africa.