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Domestic violence cases surge in Africa amid Covid-19 lockdown

Some African countries are reporting of an increase in domestic violence cases during a period of lockdown to deal with coronavirus. With couples forced to...

WHO boss racially abused, receives death threats over covid-19

The director general of the World Health Organization has said that he has received death threats following the outbreak of the coronavirus. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...

Museveni says fighting indiscipline of Africans ‘tougher than Covid-19’

The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni has suggested that Africa's battle against Covid-19 is not as difficult as fighting indiscipline among its people. Museveni in...

Condom shortage looms across Africa due to coronavirus

Africa is facing a looming shortage of condoms due to the coronavirus pandemic which has killed over 70,000 people worldwide. Condoms have largely been well...

Lesotho and Comoros remain Africa’s only covid-19 free countries

With Sao Tome and Principe becoming the 52nd African country to record cases of the COVID-19, the continent now has only two countries without...

North and West African regions record high covid-19 recoveries

Africa has so far recorded 913 recoveries from the deadly coronavirus as at April 7, 2020 out of some 10,000 cases. But the recoveries have...

WHO says Africa will not be a testing ground for any vaccine

The World Health Organization has declared that Africa will not be a testing ground for any vaccine as it slams two French scientists who...

The three African countries free of coronavirus

Lesotho, Comoros, and São Tomé and Príncipe are the three remaining African countries yet to record a single case of coronavirus. South Sudan which until...

Africa to lose up to $200 bn in 2020 due to coronavirus

Global auditing firm McKinsey & Company’s is estimating that Africa would lose up to $200 billion in 2020 due to the current coronavirus pandemic. A...

Drogba and Eto’o reject ‘Covid-19 test trials on Africans’

Two former African football stars, Ivory Coast's Didier Drogba and Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o have rejected calls for covid-19 experimental vaccines to be tested first...

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Nigerian High Commission apartments in Ghana demolished

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...

Covid-19: Ghana records significant recovery numbers

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...

DR Congo: President’s ex-chief of staff jailed 20 years for corruption

The ex-chief of staff of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been jailed 20 years by a high court. Vital Kamerhe was...

Covid-19: Zimbabwe’s health minister arrested, charged for graft

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...

Ghana’s new law that jails citizens not wearing facemask 10 years

Ghanaians who fail to wear the face masks in compliance with a presidential directive risk going to jail for ten years. They also face a...
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