Africa Archive

President Joe Biden’s administration is probing a surge in imports of enriched uranium from China since late 2023 amid concerns the shipments are helping Moscow sidestep a U.S. ban on imports of the power plant fuel from Russia, Reuters has learned.

At least 30 people died, and a million others were affected by heavy flooding in Nigeria‘s northeast, emergency services said Wednesday. “The death toll is 30,” National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spokesman Ezekiel Manzo told AFP a day after water from an

At least 52 people were killed in an explosion caused by a head-on collision between a fuel tanker and a truck on Sunday, the country’s emergency response agency said. The fuel tanker was also carrying cattle in the Agaie area in

The death toll from a school dormitory fire in central Kenya has climbed to 21 after two more students died in the hospital. The tragedy has raised questions about safety standards at educational establishments nationwide. And after night fell, another fire

The first shipment of mpox vaccines arrived in Congo’s capital on Thursday, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency. The European Union, through its health emergency agency HERA, donated 100,000 doses of