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…
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 has in the past month taken drastic measures including a strict lockdown. President Eric Masisi…
Doubters quarantine: DRC civil society campaign combats virus…
Civil society organizations in the Democratic Republic of Congo are taking to the front line of coronavirus sensitization efforts as the pandemic continues to spike in the vast Central African nation. Activists and NGOs in…
Botswana coronavirus: president to observe third quarantine –…
President Eric Masisi left Gaborone on Tuesday for Harare where he is attending a meeting of the Southern African Development Community, SADC. His spokesperson confirmed that extraordinary circumstances had forced him to travel as the…
Angola ‘quarantines’ suburb of capital to contain virus…
Angolan authorities have isolated a suburb of the capital Luanda after a number of cases were discovered there. The move is part of efforts to contain spread of COVID-19. It comes despite the relaxation of…
Uganda arraigns Chinese quarantine escapees after treatment
Authorities in Uganda are set to press charges against half dozen Chinese nationals who escaped from institutional quarantine about a month ago. In all, there are six Chines and two Ugandan co-conspirators expected to be…
Bomet medics quarantined after contacting alleged Covid-19 patient
At least ten medics have been quarantined after coming into contact with a patient who died showing with Covid-19 symptoms in Bomet. Bomet Medicals Services and Public Health CEC Joseph Sitonik said the patient died…
Botswana locks up stubborn MPs who flouted coronavirus…
Barely 24 hours after government announced that all lawmakers were supposed to observe a period of quarantine for COVID-19, the Director of Health Services at the Ministry of Health and Wellness, says a number of…
COVID-19: Nigeria court orders compulsory quarantine for 34…
A Magistrate Court in Lagos has sentenced over 30 lockdown flouters to fourteen-day quarantine and a month community service. Lagos is currently under a lockdown imposed by the federal government to curb the spread of…
Central Kinshasa set to be quarantined for 14…
Scenes of traffic jams are expected to become rarer in downtown Kinshasa from Monday April 6. The capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo will be quarantined for two weeks because of the coronavirus, the…
COVID-19: Gambia hunts for 14 quarantined escapees
Authorities in Gambia on Friday begun a hunt for 14 people who broke out of a hotel in Banjul where they had been quarantined for COVID-19. The group was among 32 passengers who arrived from…
Ivory Coast quarantine controversy
There’s growing concern in Ivory Coast over a government decision to quarantine passengers from countries with 100 or more cases of the coronavirus in a sports centre and a new plan called ‘home quarantine’. Some…
