The COVID-19 pandemic in Africa is reaching "full speed," the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief said Thursday, while a South African official said a single province is preparing 1.5 million graves. Just a day after confirmed coronavirus cases across Africa surpassed...

Syria could face severe bread shortages for the first time since the start of the war, another challenge for President Bashar al-Assad as he grapples with an economic meltdown and fresh US sanctions, a UN official, activists and farmers said. Any major disruptions to Syria's bread subsidy...

Oil prices drifted lower on Thursday as concerns about renewed COVID-19 lockdowns in the United States outweighed signs of a recovery in U.S. gasoline demand. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 futures fell 14 cents, or 0.3%, to $40.76 a barrel by 0229 GMT, after rising 0.7% on...

Oil prices edged higher on Tuesday as the U.S. government forecast higher fuel demand and lower production, overshadowing concerns that a surge in new coronavirus cases will hamper a demand recovery. “The market is popping because of the higher forecast demand, and jobs data,” said Phil...