Equatorial Guinea
At least 20 dead, 600 wounded in Equatorial Guinea blasts

By Sam Mednick And Joseph Wilson Mar. 07, 2021 03:47 PM EST
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others...

Zimbabwe receives first vaccines from Sinopharm in China

By Farai Mutsaka Feb. 14, 2021 11:25 PM EST
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has received its first COVID-19 vaccines with the arrival early Monday of an Air Zimbabwe jet carrying 200,000 Sinopharm doses...

A thermometer display reads minus 83 degrees Celsius on a medical storage fridge at the Ndlovu clinic's lab in Groblersdal , 200 kms north-east of Johannesburg Thursday Feb. 11, 2021. African countries without the coronavirus variant dominant in South Africa should go ahead and use the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, while the World Health Organization suggested the vaccine even for countries with the variant circulating widely.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
African nations still encouraged to use AstraZeneca vaccine

By Cara Anna Feb. 11, 2021 07:21 AM EST

In this UNTV image, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, President of Zimbabwe, speaks in a pre-recorded video message during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, at UN headquarters. The U.N.'s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with pre-recorded speeches from heads-of-state, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic. (UNTV via AP)
At UN, Africa urges fiscal help against virus 'apocalypse'

By Cara Anna Sep. 24, 2020 12:04 PM EDT

People walk past "The Knotted Gun" by Swedish sculpture Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, at United Nations headquarters. In 2020, which marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, the annual high-level meeting of world leaders around the U.N. General Assembly will be very different from years past because of the coronavirus pandemic. Leaders will not be traveling to the United Nations in New York for their addresses, which will be prerecorded. Most events related to the gathering will be held virtually. No access to world leaders on the U.N. grounds will be possible, therefore, and access to most anything will be extremely curtailed. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Born to prevent war, UN at 75 faces a deeply polarized world

By Edith M. Lederer Sep. 21, 2020 10:30 AM EDT

A health worker disinfects arriving Vietnamese COVID-19 patients at the national hospital of tropical diseases in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The 129 patients who were working in Equatorial Guinea were brought home in a repatriation flight for treatment of the coronavirus. (Bui Cuong Quyet/VNA via AP)
129 Vietnamese virus patients arrive back home from Africa

By Hau Dinh Jul. 29, 2020 07:59 AM EDT