FILE PHOTO Sun 01 March 2020: (REUTERS) Nigerian authorities have been in touch with around 100 people who may have been exposed to an Italian man who is the country’s first coronavirus patient, the Lagos state health commissioner said on Sunday. “It is around 100 people but that number is increasing every minute,” Akin Abayomi […]
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Fri 28 February 2020: Two South African citizens working on a Japanese cruise ship have tested positive for the coronavirus, the Health Department said on Friday. “The South African government has been made aware by Japanese authorities through the South African embassy in Tokyo that there were 12 South African crew members working on board […]
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FILE PHOTO Fri 28 February 2020: Nigeria on Friday announced the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa. “The case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on the 25th of February 2020,” Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in a statement on Twitter. […]
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Wed 26 February 2020: The plague of locusts ravaging East Africa has spread to the Congo, marking the first time the crop-chomping insects have been spotted in the country in 75 years. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation said the cluster of desert locusts arrived on Friday on the western shore of Lake Alberta near […]
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FILE PHOTO Wed 26 February 2020: The Algerian Ministry of Health confirmed on Tuesday the first case of coronavirus in the country, an Italian man who arrived on February 17. The Minister of Health Health Shamsuddin Shitor said on state TV that the authorities were able to detect this case due to the vigilance system adopted at […]
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FILE PHOTO: Turkish Deputy PM Bulent Arinc and the Minister of Trade Amelia Kyanbadde during Turkey-Uganda Joint Economic Commission (MEC) Tue 25 February 2020: Turkey has donated $650,000 for an agricultural project in northern Uganda, an area battered by years of conflict and refugee influx, a diplomat said Monday. Turkey donated the funds to Uganda […]
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Mon 24 February 2020: Nearly 30 people were injured Sunday in a bombing at a rally in support of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, said police. “The bomb attack on a rally for Dr. Abiy injured 29 people,” the state-run Ethiopian News Agency reported, quoting Arasa Merdasa, the top police official in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. […]
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Sat 22 February 2020: More than 4,000 people are forced to flee their homes every day in Burkina Faso amid rising attacks on civilians by terrorist groups, the U.N. Refugee Agency said on Friday. “In Burkina Faso, the latest attacks by militants on civilians and local authorities have been forcing a daily average of more […]
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FILE PHOTO Wed 19 February 2020: (REUTERS) Al Shabaab militants killed at least 12 Somali soldiers and briefly captured a military base southwest of the capital on Wednesday, officials said, underscoring the insurgents’ ability to launch attacks despite a government offensive. A suicide bomber detonated at the El Salini base before gunmen stormed in and […]
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Wed 19 February 2020: The ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to South Africa, His Excellency Lin Songtian, assures South Africans that both countries are able to curb the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19.By Elna Schütz, Portia Kobue. While the disease continues to spread internationally, with the World Health Organization categorising it as a high […]
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