Coronavirus

Malawi cancels independence festivities due to COVID-19

Malawi’s newly elected president has cancelled the country’s 56th Independence Day celebrations slated for Monday due to a surge in…

July 6, 2020

Tourism Decline Hampers Wildlife In Kenya

A reserve home to orphaned baby elephants in Kenya. In the absence of their mothers, the baby elephants rely on…

July 5, 2020

Madagascar’s capital confined again as cases spike

Antananarivo returns to containment, two months after the easing of restrictive measures and even the reopening of schools, authorities have…

July 5, 2020

South Africa reopens restaurants even as virus cases rise

"I am breathing again," sighs Kanto Razafimandimby, on her first night out since South Africa reopened its restaurants and casinos…

July 5, 2020

Nigeria: Patient gives birth in Oyo isolation centre

OYO State has recorded the first delivery of a Covid-19 patient at the Infectious Disease Centre, Olodo, Ibadan. This is…

July 5, 2020

PSL: Date For Return To Football?

The Premier Soccer League is edging closer to a return, the Siya crew being informed that a tentative date for…

July 5, 2020

Senegal bans EU nationals after being blacklisted

Senegal announced Friday it will not re-open its airspace to EU travelers after the bloc did not include it on…

July 4, 2020

Botswana coronavirus: president enters fourth quarantine

Botswana remains one of Africa’s least impacted countries, one of a handful with less than 100 cases of COVID-19. Government…

July 2, 2020

Burundi to boost testing, president labels COVID-19 ‘worst enemy’

Burundi’s new president has signaled that his government will take the coronavirus pandemic more seriously than his dead predecessor, calling…

July 2, 2020

Senegal lifts coronavirus restrictions; land, sea borders still closed

Senegal is easing some restrictions that had been imposed to aid curb the spread of the Covid 19 pandemic. In…

July 1, 2020

Breaking: Face mask violators arrested in Osun, shown videos of isolation centres

The Osun State Government on Tuesday went a step further in its attempts at enforcing the use of face mask…

July 1, 2020

Death toll in Africa from coronavirus tops 10,000

The death toll in Africa from the novel coronavirus topped 10,000 Tuesday, according to a statistics website. The number of…

July 1, 2020

AFCON moved to 2022, delayed CHAN slated for Jan. 2021

The Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has announced the postponement of the 2021 Africa Cup of…

July 1, 2020

Business: IMF says South Africa loan talks occurring at measured pace

The International Monetary Fund's discussions with South Africa over a $4.2 billion loan to support its fight against the coronavirus…

June 30, 2020

Algeria to keep borders closed till COVID-19 ends

Algeria will keep its land, air and sea borders closed until the end of the COVID-19 crisis. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune…

June 29, 2020

South Africa: Covid-19 cases double in KZN schools in a week

The reported number of Covid-19 cases in KwaZulu-Natal schools increased last week to 187, of which 139 are teachers and…

June 29, 2020

South Africa: Mbalula urges taxi industry to reconsider decision to break lockdown laws

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula says it is unfortunate and regrettable that taxi operators have decided to violate Covid-19 lockdown regulations,…

June 29, 2020

Nigeria coronavirus: 24,077 cases; record new cases, UK evacuation

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, became the third African country to record over 10,000 cases of COVID-19. The milestone was…

June 28, 2020

Peter Psquare Okoye narrates how himself, his wife, Lola and daughter tested positive for Coronavirus

Ace Nigerian entertainer, Peter Okoye of the defunct Psquare group, alongside his wife, Lola Omotayo and daughter, Aliona all tested…

June 28, 2020

The world: Spain’s top researchers discover coronavirus in waste water collected on March 12, 2019

Researchers at the University of Barcelona, one of Spain's most prestigious universities, had detected the presence of the novel coronavirus…

June 27, 2020

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