Zhoushan crude oil import terminal, pictured in August 2018: no one anticipated a sudden demand shock caused by a new pathogen spreading like wildfire. © The coronavirus epidemic battering economic activity and oil demand in China has sent oil prices into a tailspin....

Africans living in Wuhan province are stranded in China. Most African governments have told their citizens that they will not evacuate them out of areas stricken by the coronavirus. Click here to view original web page at...

A woman wears a face mask in a shopping mall in Kitwe, Zambia, this month. (Emmanuel Mwiche/AP) As Emma-Louise Anderson and I find in our research on AIDS programs in Zambia and Malawi, even when constrained by , African health professionals have considerable capacity...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Angolan Foreign Minister Manuel Domingos Augusto at the Presidential Palace in Luanda, Angola, Monday. LUANDA, Angola — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced corruption and touted American business on Monday during the...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with "Startup Sunday" founder Mame Aminata Diambo, Dakar, Senegal, February 16, 2020 © Reuters / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds Pompeo’s visit to Africa marks the first time in over 18 months that an American cabinet member has landed on...

Kenyan Ambassador to China, Sarah Serem. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE Kenya’s Ambassador to China, Sarah Serem, has expressed fear over the lives of Kenyan students trapped in Wuhan city where the Coronavirus infection started. Serem said more than 100 students are trapped in...

Yuyang Liu for The New York Times China signaled on Monday that it would postpone its most important political spectacle of the year, a sign of deepening anxiety within the ruling Communist Party about the threat posed by the coronavirus epidemic . Chinese officials...

The coronavirus was confirmed in the Chinese city of Wuhan on January 7, 2020. Cases have since been confirmed in several other Asian countries, Europe and the United States. The World Health Organisation, WHO, has since declared it a public health emergency of...

More than 500 leaders have gathered for the Munich Security Conference in Germany this weekend, among them the presidents of Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad to lead discussions on the situation in the Sahel. Yet this year, it’s the global coronavirus outbreak that has...

Overwhelmed by the coronavirus panic, US President Donald Trump’s impeachment folderol, and the chaotic Iowa Democratic caucuses, few took notice of the Trump administration’s announcement that it will expand its controversial 2017 travel ban to six more countries,...

Workers pack bottles of alcohol disinfectant in a factory in Suining in southwest China's Sichuan province Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. China's daily death toll from a new virus topped 100 for the first time and pushed the total past 1,000 dead, authorities said Tuesday...