Fri 10 April 2020: Turkey on Friday sent medical supplies to Libya to help fight the novel coronavirus, which has infected 1.6 million people worldwide and claimed nearly 96,000 lives in 185 countries. “At the direction of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as part of the preventative measures against COVID-19 virus, medical supplies were sent to […]
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Wed 08 April 2020: The Democratic Republic of Congo has released 1,200 inmates to decongest prisons as part of efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the country’s justice minister said Tuesday. “In the past few days, we have been decongesting our prisons starting with the large Makala Prison, where at least […]
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Mon 06 April 2020: Forces of Libya’s U.N.-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) downed a cargo plane Sunday carrying ammunition for militias affiliated with putschist commander Khalifa Haftar. The plane was targeted right before it landed at an airstrip near Tarhuna province south of Tripoli, Mohammed Kanunu, the spokesman for the GNA-led Burkan Al-Ghadab Operation […]
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Sun 05 April 2020: Thousands of African migrants without revenue during Morocco’s coronavirus lockdown could run out of money for food and essentials, and rights groups have urged the government to offer them the same cash help it has promised to citizens, reports Reuters. The North African country has imposed a month-long lockdown restricting movement to […]
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Sat 04 April 2020: Recent study urges collaborative action among African countries to help mitigate economic impact of pandemic Africa is expected to see a dip in its GDP growth rate of between five and eight percentage points, due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, a study warned. “Africa’s economies could experience a loss of between […]
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Sat 04 April 2020: Former international and Ivory Coast football star Didier Drogba joined lawyers and a French anti-racism organisation in criticising the remarks made on Wednesday in a broadcast on the LCI channel. Camille Locht, head of research at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Lille, was questioned about a […]
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FILE PHOTO Fri 03 April 2020: 61-year-old Indian national, two other people who had close contact with her test positive Malawi confirmed its first three cases of the novel coronavirus Thursday, becoming the 50th African nation to be infected. President Peter Mutharika said on national television that a 61-year-old Indian national had tested […]
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Thu 02 April 2020: A report issued by Amnesty International has revealed that US raids in Somalia have led to the deaths of two civilians and the injuries of three others in February. In the report, United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) is accused of killing civilians, following a US raid in Somalia last February. The report explained that on […]
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Tue 31 March 2020: Jacques Joaquim Yhombi-Opango, former president of the Republic of the Congo, has died after contracting coronavirus, his family said. Yhombi-Opango died in a Paris hospital on Monday. He was 81. Yhombi-Opango was ill before he contracted the virus, his son told AFP news agency. He led Congo-Brazzaville from 1977 until he was toppled in 1979, […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday ordered the “cessation of all movements” for two weeks in the largest city Lagos and capital Abuja to stop the spread of coronavirus. “All citizens in these areas are to stay in their homes” starting from 2200 GMT on Monday, Buhari announced in a televised […]
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