The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the…
Rwanda: Airports Reopens To Travellers
Rwandan airports on Saturday reopened to worldwide travellers, extra than four months after the East African kingdom suspended commercial passenger flights to mitigate the Covid-19 outbreak. The suspension didn't affect cargo and emergency flights.…
NEWS: Five hotels closed in Mbarara, as the…
Authorities in Mbarara District have closed five inns in Mbarara City after reportedly accommodating two Covid-19 effective guests. The hotels have been closed in the course of an operation led via the district deputy resident…
New Zealand: Victoria goes into lockdown, state of…
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a kingdom of catastrophe has been declared from 6pm on Sunday in addition to the kingdom of emergency. Andrews introduced 671 new instances of Covid-19 and seven deaths along…
South Africa: Cases of Coronavirus top 500,000
South Africa on Sunday topped 500,000 cases of the novel coronavirus, stated the Health Ministry said. With 11,107 infections over the remaining 24 hours, the country's virus tally has reached 503,209, landing the united states…
Nigeria: Lagos eases coronavirus lockdown, reopening Places of…
The governor of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos stated on Saturday churches and mosques would reopen subsequent week as the authorities move to ease the lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic. "Places of worship in Lagos will…
Business: Downsized Hajj Affects Somalia’s Livestock Trade
The Hajj, a time of celebration when Muslims journey to Mecca each year. A pilgrimage that economically benefits Somali cattle breeders and traders whose millions of livestock are imported by Saudi Arabia to nourish the…
Cameroon: Army spearheads fight against Coronavirus – Guemo
Atonfack Guemo, the Defense Ministry’s head of communication, spoke to KnowAfrika, detailing the army's involvement in the combat towards the modern health crisis. Guemo said that despite Boko Haram’s assaults in the north and the…
South Africa: Ribbons to remember Coronavirus victims
A church in South Africa is honouring the country's coronavirus victims by putting out white ribbons to mark each and every death from the disease. The fence outside St. James Presbyterian church in Johannesburg is…
The World: Coronavirus surge slowing U.S. economic recovery…
The surge in U.S. coronavirus cases is commencing to weigh on economic activity, the head of the Federal Reserve stated on Wednesday, and he promised the U.S. central bank would “do what we can, and…
Breaking: 404 new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria
Nigeria on Wednesday night time recorded 404 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which established this on its Twitter handle, said the clean instances had been recorded in 19 states of…
Africa Still in the Thick of Pandemic
Cases in Africa Rising COVID-19 still on the rise on the African continent, with a reported 860 000 plus confirmed cases in 55 countries. South Africa lays claim to around half of these accounts. With…
Tourists flying to Seychelles after Aug. 1 re-opening…
All passengers coming to Seychelles from Aug. 1 when the airport opens for scheduled passenger flights ought to have proof of a poor COVID-19 PCR take a look at no longer greater than 72 hours…
The World: Five states in USA report one-day…
Five U.S. states in the South and West reported one-day records for coronavirus deaths on Tuesday and cases in Texas passed the 400,000 mark as California health officials said Latinos made up more than half…
The World: More death in Georgia as vaccine…
Georgia persevered to stagger beneath a heavy load of COVID-19 instances Monday amid one ray of hope — a large take a look at of an experimental vaccine for the illness that started with the…
Nigeria: Muslims will Hold Eid Prayers in Open…
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said that Eid prayers can preserve in open areas in Kaduna State but there will be no celebrations during the impending Eid Al-Adha Muslim festival. The governor who made this known…
NEWS: Morocco shuts down major cities after surge…
Morocco will quit people entering and leaving some of its biggest cities from nighttime to incorporate a surge in COVID-19 cases, the indoors and fitness Ministries stated on Sunday. The cities to be locked down…
Kenya fears surge in coronavirus cases
Kenya Sunday recorded the highest number of daily Covid-19 infections since March 13, a development likely to inform the outcome of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s crisis meeting with governors on Monday. According to the Health ministry,…
COVID-19 cases in Africa top 828,000
The number of coronavirus cases in Africa reached 828,214 on Sunday, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). At least 17,509 more people died of the virus across 54 countries in…
