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Xinhua 2020-06-22 17:42:55
Nine people in Zimbabwe’s second largest city Bulawayo died of a gastrointestinal disease outbreak, while about a thousand were infected with the water-borne disease. The local authority said i...
-- 2020-06-21 16:25:29
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases across the African continent reached 286,141 as of Saturday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC i...
-- 2020-06-18 17:49:56
Namibia's health system has drastically reduced the risk of about 200,000 people living with HIV and Aids from contracting coronavirus through the distribution of antiretroviral drugs for consumption...
-- 2020-06-09 21:15:04
Burundi's outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza has died, the government of the central African nation announced in a statement posted on Twitter, Reuters reports. The government statement said that N...
-- 2020-06-08 13:27:07
Children in South Africa began returning to classrooms on Monday as part of a gradual loosening of restrictions imposed under a months-long COVID-19 lockdown in the continent’s most industrialis...
Reuters 2020-06-02 12:35:45
Authorities in Congo announced a new Ebola outbreak in the western city of Mbandaka on Monday, adding to another epidemic of the virus that has raged in the east since 2018. Six cases have been detec...
-- 2020-06-01 14:24:42
South Africa partly lifted a two month-old coronavirus lockdown on Monday, letting people outside for work, worship, exercise or shopping, and allowing mines and factories to run at full capacity to t...
-- 2020-06-01 11:00:43
Armed bandits in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Katsina killed at least 18 people, including a local official, and stole thousands of livestock on Sunday, two witnesses and a police spokesman t...
-- 2020-05-16 23:26:23
Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 26 years on the run, the French justice mini...
-- 2020-05-11 10:58:50
A worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana’s Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a...
-- 2020-05-09 13:40:22
Kenya and Uganda were hit by a power blackout on Saturday after what distributor Kenya Power said was a system disturbance in the transmission grid. The neighbouring countries’ grids are interc...
-- 2020-05-05 11:00:43
Niger’s Labor and Employment Minister Mohamed Ben Omar died from the novel coronavirus, public TV channel Tele Sahel has announced. Omar’s Social Democratic Party (PSD) announced that he...
-- 2020-04-21 15:33:35
Nigerian airports will remain closed to international flights for another two weeks from Thursday as part of measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country, said aviation minis...
-- 2020-04-20 15:31:36
Ghana is using delivery drones from US-based startup Zipline to enable it to test people more quickly outside major cities for the novel coronavirus, the company said on Monday. Ghana has 834 confirm...
Reuters 2020-04-19 09:18:45
The Nigerian president’s chief of staff died on Friday from COVID-19, the presidency said on Saturday, making him the most high profile person in the country to die in the coronavirus outbreak....
Reuters 2020-04-16 15:50:03
Shehu Isah Daiyanu Dumus has run out of cash and says he only has a few handfuls of cassava flour left to eat. The 53-year-old paraplegic man usually sells phone cards. But an extended lockdown to fi...
Reuters 2020-04-16 09:17:47
Haiti will reopen its key textile industry next week, Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe said on Wednesday, suggesting the impoverished nation had escaped the worst of the global coronavirus pandemic by imp...
-- 2020-04-12 16:02:32
South Africa, which banned the sale of all alcohol and cigarettes under a coronavirus lockdown that triggered a wave of lootings of liquor shops, said on Sunday it had caught police officers who were...
-- 2020-04-07 13:43:25
Morocco made wearing face masks mandatory starting on Tuesday for anyone allowed to go out during the coronavirus outbreak, the government said. The masks will be sold at a subsidised price of 0.8 di...
-- 2020-03-28 19:04:02
Police fired tear gas at a crowd of Kenyan ferry commuters as the country’s first day of a coronavirus curfew slid into chaos. Elsewhere, officers were captured in mobile phone footage whacking...
-- 2020-03-28 12:02:58
The director of one of Haiti’s top hospitals was kidnapped on Friday (local time), prompting staff to refuse to take in new patients in protest as the impoverished country battles an outbreak of...
-- 2020-03-27 12:26:37
South African security forces have begun enforcing a three-week nationwide lockdown in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus. All but essential movement is forbidden and both the army and t...
Xinhua 2020-03-26 17:52:18
South Sudan has imposed a 30-day night-time curfew as part of measures aimed at forestalling the spread of COVID-19 into the east African country. President Salva Kiir issued an executive order Tuesd...
-- 2020-03-25 17:23:07
Mali reported on Wednesday its first two cases of coronavirus, the government said in a statement. he two patients are Malian nationals, a 49 year-old woman from Bamako and a 62 year-old man living i...
-- 2020-03-25 14:19:12
Boko Haram militants killed 92 Chadian soldiers and wounded 47 more in the deadliest attack ever on the country’s military, President Idriss Deby said late on Tuesday. The soldiers were attacke...
Reuters 2020-03-18 17:53:50
The World Health Organization has warned of the risk that COVID-19 could overwhelm strained public health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Here is a selection of measures countries are taking to prepare...
Reuters 2020-03-16 11:28:48
An explosion at a gas processing plant on Sunday killed at least 15 people and destroyed about 50 buildings after a fire broke out in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, emergency s...
-- 2020-03-09 17:16:06
The year since the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max has been a journey through grief, anger and determination for Ruth Kageche, Zipporah Kuria and others whose loved ones were on the plan...
-- 2020-03-09 14:29:27
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt targeting his convoy in the capital Khartoum, state television and a source in the cabinet said on Monday. Hamdok ha...
-- 2020-03-03 14:06:43
The UN's special envoy for Libya has resigned saying his efforts to bring peace in the North African country was damaging his health. Ghassan Salame tweeted that "my health no longer allows this rate...
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