The Paris Club of creditor nations agreed on Tuesday to restructure Somalia’s debt, including immediately canceling $1.4 billion owed by the impoverished Horn of...
Ethiopia's highly anticipated general elections in August this year have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The country's electoral board said it will announce...
Police in Tanzania have arrested a couple reported to be spreading false information about the coronavirus.
According to police in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es...
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday announced a countywide curfew from 7pm to 5am starting Friday in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In an address...
An eight-month-old baby in Uganda has tested positive for coronavirus, according to health officials.
The baby's father recently travelled back from Kenya's western city of...
Ethiopia's government has announced plans to free over 4,000 prisoners to reduce the rate of the spread of coronavirus.
Prisoners to benefit from the move...
At least 29 members of various Christian churches have been arrested in Rwanda's Musanze District for breaching the directive on public gatherings.
The government has...
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
