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Ghana’s elderly cry over neglect amid Covid-19 pandemic

Ghana's elderly population is accusing the government of neglect as the county grapples with increasing cases of the coronavirus. Globally the aged face the greatest...

South Sudan becomes 51st African country to confirm covid-19

South Sudan has become the latest country in Africa to record its first coronavirus case. 51 countries have now confirmed the virus within their borders...

Covid-19: Gambians ‘angry’ with 45 days of state of emergency

Gambians are expressing uneasiness and anger about the decision by the country’s lawmakers to approve an extension to current state of public emergency by...

Botswana enforces covid-19 lockdown ‘without security officers’

Botswana is one of the Southern African countries to also declare a lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic after recording its first set of cases. President...

French doctor apologizes for ‘covid-19 vaccine test in Africa’ comment

One of the doctors who called for coronavirus vaccine to be first tested in Africa has now apologized after global backlash. On a french local...

The Ghanaian-born virologist developing a coronavirus vaccine

Ghanaian-born Professor Marylyn Martina Addo is one of just a few women at the forefront of finding a vaccine for the deadly Coronavirus. The Ghanaian-German...

Indian parents name their twin babies Covid and Corona

An Indian couple named their twin babies after the coronavirus pandemic which started in Chinese city of Wuhan. The twins, a boy and a girl...

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...

COVID-19 Coronavirus: Unity for Survival in Africa

As the COVID-19 virus pandemic impacts peoples' lives worldwide, society shuts down in an effort to contain it. People find themselves isolated at home,...

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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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