Court orders a delay in Malawi lockdown
Plans for a lockdown in Malawi have been scuppered at the last minute after a court injunction ordered it be delayed by at least seven days, lawyers say. It was…
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Plans for a lockdown in Malawi have been scuppered at the last minute after a court injunction ordered it be delayed by at least seven days, lawyers say. It was…
A corpse for burial in Kogi State has been seized by the Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, for breaching its orders on dusk- to- dawn curfew. The curfew in addition…
Cameroon president Paul Biya for the first time in weeks appeared publicly at a time citizens continued to call for his whereabouts to be made known. Biya on Thursday met…
Cabinet members in Botswana have agreed to donate 10% of their salaries towards the country’s COVID-19 relief fund, the government announced on Tuesday. According to Vice President Slumber Tsogwane, members have…
Tanzania has officially announced the cancellation of the 2020 edition of the annual Union Day celebrations. The day is marked to commemorate the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar to become…
Nigeria is to benefit from a European Union donation of $55m to boost the country’s fight against coronavirus. A statement from the presidency confirmed the development after a meeting between…
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has announced an extension of the lockdown in the capital Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states in order to sustain the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The…
Lesotho has yet to record a case of COVID-19 as of April 13, one of two countries to escape the virus since it reached the continent. The other being the island…
Tragedy befell the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos state, Nigeria at the weekend when two teenagers reportedly drowned in a community beach. The spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, DSP…
The World Bank is projecting that sub-Saharan Africa will go into recession for the first time in a quarter a century as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupts economies. The global financial…