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GABORONE (Reuters) -Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi has left isolation just over a week after testing positive for COVID-19 without symptoms,...

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The Biden administration will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries imposed last month over...

LONDON (Reuters) -The British government will remove all 11 countries from its COVID-19 travel red list from Wednesday because there...

By Alistair Smout and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Thursday implored people to obey tougher restrictions to slow the...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will not require stricter domestic COVID restrictions in the run-up to Christmas because vaccines had put...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia has detected the Omicron coronavirus variant in 18 of 19 samples sequenced between Nov. 11-26, its...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is deploying a surge team to South Africa's Gauteng province, epicentre of...

By David Ljunggren and Kanishka Singh OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada, seeking to halt the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, will...

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - On Friday Nov. 19, Raquel Viana, Head of Science at one of South Africa's...

MONTREAL (Reuters) - A further two cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in Ottawa, bringing Canada's total...

GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana's Court of Appeal on Monday upheld a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex, a decision hailed by...

By Promit Mukherjee and Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that authorities were...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will ban the entry of travellers who have been in eight African countries and extend quarantine...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Maldives said it was barring travellers from seven African countries from Sunday over concerns about the new...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Mauritius will suspend all commercial passenger flights from South Africa from Nov. 28 due to the new...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Saturday it was barring travellers from six Southern African countries on Saturday over...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Oman has suspended entry to travellers from South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho and Eswatini starting...

By Alexander Winning and Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa said on Friday that imposing restrictions on travellers from the...

By David Shepardson and Stephanie Nebehay WASHINGTON/GENEVA (Reuters) - The discovery of a new coronavirus variant named Omicron triggered global...

By Gram Slattery and Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil will shut its borders to travelers arriving from six...