Southeast Africa

Zika Virus Cases: The first case was found in 1947 in Uganda and since then it has spread to several parts of the world including Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas.

Microsoft is reportedly looking into offering free Xbox game streaming access in exchange for watching ads. Currently, there are no solid plans but Xbox Gaming CFO Tim Stuart floated the idea of introducing the plan in countries like Africa, India, and Southeast Asia, where mobile gaming takes priority over consoles. Reports and surveys from earlie...

Archaeologists believe that our earliest ancestors most likely travelled coastlines and islands through southeast Asia towards Australia, roughly 50,000-60,000 years ago.

Debris from China’s Long March 5B rocket are crashing towards Earth, according to California-based nonprofit Aerospace. The debris of the rocket that was launched on July 24, could make an uncontrolled entry on July 31, with the debris field including the US, as well as Africa, Australia, Brazil, India and Southeast Asia. China has dismissed conc...

The World Health Organisation has thanked India for "continued support" in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. India has been sending vaccines to countries in the Southeast Asian neighbourhood and to others like Brazil and Morocco. South Africa will also get the vaccine soon.

A black beetle the size of a sesame seed is killing South Africa's trees, and no one knows how to stop it.

The US has revived two major infrastructure projects in South and Southeast Asia in which India would be a vital player, a move that could potentially act as a counter to China's ambitious Belt and Road initiative. The Trump administration has resuscitated the 'New Silk Road' initiative, first announced by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in...

Barely two days after Twitter's India head Rishi Jaitly resigned, Twitter's Managing Director for Southeast Asia, India, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region Parminder Singh on Thursday announced that he has quit the company.

Rocket has set up dozens of e-commerce sites, aiming to replicate the success of Amazon and Alibaba in Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Russia.

Niger's air force bombed a Boko Haram base in the country's southeast and arrested more than 20 terrorists, security sources said today, in its biggest counter-attack in eight months.

The West African state of Senegal became the fifth country to be hit by the world's worst Ebola outbreak on Friday, while riots broke out in neighbouring Guinea's remote southeast where infection rates are rising fast.

Malawi police are investigating a fire in a government warehouse that destroyed ballot boxes containing votes from a disputed election just days after a court ordered a recount, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

The rising tide of elephant and rhino poaching in Africa is spreading to the sparsely-populated vastness of Namibia in the southeast of the continent, latest official figures show.

About a million children, double the previous estimate, fall ill with tuberculosis every year, said a study on Monday that also gave the first tally of drug-resistant TB among the young.

If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of laying fiber cable, dramatically increasing Internet usage in places such as Africa and Southeast Asia.

Zika Virus Cases: The first case was found in 1947 in Uganda and since then it has spread to several parts of the world including Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas.

Microsoft is reportedly looking into offering free Xbox game streaming access in exchange for watching ads. Currently, there are no solid plans but Xbox Gaming CFO Tim Stuart floated the idea of introducing the plan in countries like Africa, India, and Southeast Asia, where mobile gaming takes priority over consoles. Reports and surveys from earlie...

Archaeologists believe that our earliest ancestors most likely travelled coastlines and islands through southeast Asia towards Australia, roughly 50,000-60,000 years ago.

Debris from China’s Long March 5B rocket are crashing towards Earth, according to California-based nonprofit Aerospace. The debris of the rocket that was launched on July 24, could make an uncontrolled entry on July 31, with the debris field including the US, as well as Africa, Australia, Brazil, India and Southeast Asia. China has dismissed conc...

The World Health Organisation has thanked India for "continued support" in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. India has been sending vaccines to countries in the Southeast Asian neighbourhood and to others like Brazil and Morocco. South Africa will also get the vaccine soon.

A black beetle the size of a sesame seed is killing South Africa's trees, and no one knows how to stop it.

The US has revived two major infrastructure projects in South and Southeast Asia in which India would be a vital player, a move that could potentially act as a counter to China's ambitious Belt and Road initiative. The Trump administration has resuscitated the 'New Silk Road' initiative, first announced by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in...

Barely two days after Twitter's India head Rishi Jaitly resigned, Twitter's Managing Director for Southeast Asia, India, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region Parminder Singh on Thursday announced that he has quit the company.

Rocket has set up dozens of e-commerce sites, aiming to replicate the success of Amazon and Alibaba in Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Russia.

Niger's air force bombed a Boko Haram base in the country's southeast and arrested more than 20 terrorists, security sources said today, in its biggest counter-attack in eight months.

The West African state of Senegal became the fifth country to be hit by the world's worst Ebola outbreak on Friday, while riots broke out in neighbouring Guinea's remote southeast where infection rates are rising fast.

Malawi police are investigating a fire in a government warehouse that destroyed ballot boxes containing votes from a disputed election just days after a court ordered a recount, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

The rising tide of elephant and rhino poaching in Africa is spreading to the sparsely-populated vastness of Namibia in the southeast of the continent, latest official figures show.

About a million children, double the previous estimate, fall ill with tuberculosis every year, said a study on Monday that also gave the first tally of drug-resistant TB among the young.

If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of laying fiber cable, dramatically increasing Internet usage in places such as Africa and Southeast Asia.