Coronavirus

Algeria extends curfew as coronavirus cases rise

Algeria will extend curfews it has put in place to limit the spread of the coronavirus from Sunday, the prime…

April 5, 2020

Mobile testing for COVID-19 in South Africa

South Africans queued outside a clinic in Johannesburg Friday to get tested for the coronavirus. With increasing number of cases…

April 4, 2020

EU to channel more aid to Africa to help cope with COVID-19

The European Union has agreed to try to channel more aid to Africa to help it cope with the coronavirus…

April 4, 2020

Central Kinshasa set to be quarantined for 14 days

Scenes of traffic jams are expected to become rarer in downtown Kinshasa from Monday April 6. The capital of the…

April 4, 2020

Close up’ social distancing as Lagos distributes coronavirus food aid

Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, is the country’s most impacted with coronavirus infection. As of April 3, Lagos alone accounted for…

April 3, 2020

Coronavirus: Egyptian violinist serenades neighbours from balcony

As residents of Cairo in Egypt try to cope with a curfew, one Egyptian man decided to use his gifts…

April 3, 2020

S.A police evict migrants in Cape Town

Police in South Africa on Thursday forced the evacuation of hundreds of foreign migrants who had been sheltering in a…

April 3, 2020

Malawi reports first three cases of Coronavirus infection

Malawi has reported its first three confirmed cases of coronavirus, the nation’s government has confirmed. The southern African nation was…

April 3, 2020

Kenya secures $50m coronavirus loan from World Bank, cases hit 110

Kenya’s request to the World Bank for $50m to fund containment efforts of the coronavirus pandemic has been approved according…

April 2, 2020

Coronavirus: Ethiopia religious bodies order closure of places of worship

Close places of worship: Orthodox church follows Islamic council Barely twenty-four hours after the Islamic Affairs Supreme Council, EIASC, announced…

April 2, 2020

Coronavirus donations hit N15bn in Nigeria

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday said that monetary contributions to its relief fund under the auspices of…

April 2, 2020

UAE Launches Largest Testing Lab For Fight Against Covid-19

Group 42, G42, the leading technology company based in Abu Dhabi, and global genomics leader BGI, announced on Tuesday (March…

April 1, 2020

Ethiopia govt, opposition back coronavirus-induced poll delay

Ethiopia’s election set for August has been postponed as the national election board said Tuesday the coronavirus makes it impossible…

April 1, 2020

Tunisia extends coronavirus lockdown by two weeks

Tunisia announced Tuesday that it will extend a lockdown to contain the novel coronavirus by two weeks as cases and…

April 1, 2020

Coronavirus: Stanbic IBTC Bank offers customer relief initiatives

Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, has introduced customer relief initiatives aimed at reducing the…

April 1, 2020

Coronavirus: nTel provides NCDC communication supplies for contact tracing

nTel, Nigeria’s first 4G/VoLTE Network recently donated a wide array of communication supplies to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control,…

April 1, 2020

Coronavirus: Zimbabwe, Nigeria adopt cash-transfers to most vulnerable

The Zimbabwean government on Monday (March 30) reported that it had budgeted over $600 million to cover one million vulnerable…

March 31, 2020

Eritrea ‘missing’ as IGAD leaders forge regional coronavirus plan

Leaders across East Africa and the Horn of Africa met via video conferencing for a meeting aimed at forging a…

March 31, 2020

Coronavirus: Ethiopia records first cases outside capital

Ethiopia at close of day March 29 had reported 21 confirmed cases of COVID-19. An increase of five over the…

March 30, 2020

Eritrea’s coronavirus cases double

Six more passengers that came to Eritrea prior to the ban on flights, (enforced on March 25), were diagnosed positive…

March 30, 2020

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