Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema has expelled four MPs who it accuses of going against the party’s stand not to attend parliamentary sessions over coronavirus fears.
The expelled lawmakers are Anthony Komu, Joseph Selasini, Davi…
A team of 12 Chinese doctors have arrived in Zimbabwe to help in the fight against coronavirus.
The southern Africa nation has confirmed 36 cases in total and four deaths.
The doctors, from China's Hunan Province, arrived in Zimbabwe…
Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina has hit back at critics of an untested herbal tonic that he is promoting as a treatment for coronavirus, despite it not having gone through clinical trials.
Last week, the World Health Organization…
The Central Regional Youth Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Eric Dadson, says the suspension of the party’s former Central Regional Chairman, Mr Bernard Allotey Jacobs, won’t affect the party’s fortunes …
The United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll topped 38,000 as of early May, by far the worst yet reported in Europe, raising questions about Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
Figures published by the Office …
After almost seven weeks of lockdown in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the next phase of the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Across Europe, people are already seeing an easing of lockdown measures, as…
Sex workers in Zambia are helping to trace people who have contracted coronavirus after a surge in new infections at the border town of Nakonde, the health minister has said.
Chitalu Chilufya said 76 of 85 reported new cases in the nort…
Malta's ambassador to Finland has resigned after comparing German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, local media say.
Michael Zammit Tabona reportedly wrote on his Facebook page: "Seventy-five years ago we stopped H…
Nineteen sailors have been killed and 15 others injured in an accident involving Iranian naval vessels in the Gulf of Oman, Iran's navy has said.
Iranian media reported that the support ship Konarak was hit by a new anti-ship missile be…
At least 20 people have been killed in attacks by gunmen on several villages in Niger, local authorities say.
Tidjani Ibrahim Katiella, governor of Tillaberi region, said the assailants were riding motorbikes during the incidents on Sat…
The Western North Regional Branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has lauded the government for giving financial clearance to employ Environmental Health officers and Assistants who completed their course of study at the schools of hygien…
Tunisia recorded no new cases of Covid-19 for the first time since early March, health authorities said on Monday, as the government announced it will further relax restrictions on movement and businesses, Reuters news agency reports.
T…
Kenya has released 7,000 inmates in a bid to decongest prisons since coronavirus pandemic hit the country, Interior Minister Fred Matiang'i has told Senators.
The minister told the Senate's Corvid-19 committee that two cases were detect…
South Africans have been told to prepare living with the threat of coronavirus for a year or even more.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said people will still be expected to social distance, wear masks and wash their hands for a while.
He …
A member of the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) COVID-19 technical team, Dr Prosper Akanbong, has described as unnecessary President Akufo-Addo’s admonishing to Ghanaians on the need for good nutrition in the fight against the Coronavi…
A former Presiding Member of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Nana Kofi Senya, has challenged the establishment of the Members of Parliament (MPs) Common Fund, saying the concept is not grounded in law but simply a creation of Parli…
Coronavirus - Malawi: How radio is lending Malawi’s farmers a hand in the fight against COVID-19 (by Francis Thawani)
The World Food Programme (WFP)-backed Farm Radio Trust broadcasts are raising awareness while a call centre offers tai…
A new initiative designed by the Professor Diana Mitlin of The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute, alongside long-term collaborators SDI Kenya, is helping to address the enormous challenges of dealing with Covid-19 in …
Coronavirus: Rwanda donates COVID-19 testing device to Central African Republic (CAR) (by Maria Kabatanya)
The device – valued at approximately USD 200,000 – is used for molecular diagnosis of COVID-19
The MINUSCA Rwanda Contingent h…
Data gathered by Learnbonds.com indicates [1] that about 45.5 million American students owe at least $1.68 trillion in student loan debt. According to the data, the current loan debt is the highest ever.
STUDENT LOAN DEBTS ACCOUNT FOR A…
Coronavirus - Gambia: Dignity Kits improve wellbeing and meet hygiene needs of women and girls amid COVID-19
The dignity kits distributed among the women and girls in the community of Basse are part of a drive to ensure they are not lef…
Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Democratic Republic of Congo have passed the 1,000 mark with the capital, Kinshasa, being the hot spot of infections.
The virus has now spread to seven out of the country's 26 provinces.
The total co…
Tanzania has relaxed restrictions on international flights to allow repatriation flights, the Citizen newspaper reports.
Under the revised measures, repatriation flights will obtain permits within two hours instead of the previous two w…
Nana Akosua Frimpomaa-Sarpong, the Election 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), on Sunday commended Ghanaian mothers for being resilient and a strong pillar for the survival of the family.
“Mothers co…
The governor of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, has warned that coronavirus lockdown measures could be reinstated if its citizens continue to flout social distancing rules.
On Monday, Nigeria decided to ease restrictions, following a fiv…
The prime minister is effectively trying to pull off the impossible.
He wants to try to restart normal life, while keeping the virus at bay with limited means to do so.
With no vaccine, the government is reliant on containing any loc…
Joshua Akamba, the National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has expressed optimism of victory for the NDC in this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
He indicated that the party would capitalise on the …
New coronavirus clusters have been reported in Wuhan city - where the virus first emerged - and the north-eastern province of Jilin in China.
Wuhan reported five new cases on Monday, after confirming its first case since 3 April on Sund…
Burundi has told the regional bloc East African Community (EAC) that any observers sent to monitor its general elections will have to be quarantined for 14 days on arrival.
The elections are only nine days away and the order effectively…
Russia and the United States will soon resume talks on strategic stability, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday, the RIA news agency reported.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday stressed his desire for arms contro…
Italy’s government and Roman Catholic bishops signed an agreement on Thursday to allow the faithful to attend Masses again from later this month, ending a standoff between the Church and state over the coronavirus lockdown.
The governme…
China will resolutely prevent the rebound of the coronavirus outbreak as the country faces mounting pressure from imported cases, state television reported on Friday, quoting a top level meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping.
China wi…
The Old Tafo Municipal Assembly has provided start-up items and financial support to 16 selected Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) to start their own businesses.
The gesture was part of efforts by the Assembly to improve the livelihoods …
Madagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based “cure” for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already put in orders for purchase, despite warnings from the World Health Organisation that its efficacy is unproven.
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European Union lawmakers are considering toughening the bloc’s planned climate law, with stricter near-term emission goals and a binding commitment for every member state to decarbonize by 2050, according to a draft document seen by Reuter…
The United Nations says 85 children have been released from detention in South Sudan as part of efforts to ease crowding in jails during the coronavirus pandemic.
Some 11 others will remain in prison because of the severity of their all…
The Islamic State (IS) group has confirmed for the first time that it is engaged in heavy fighting with al-Qaeda linked militants in Mali and Burkina Faso.
In its online publication, al-Naba, it described members of al-Qaeda's Sahel aff…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has nominated Dr Isaac Dasmani as the Municipal Chief Executive for the Prestea-Huni Valley Municipality of the Western Region.
Dr Dasmani is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University o…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday some low-risk prisoners would be granted parole to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in correctional facilities.
Around 19,000 people would be freed by the move, taken in resp…
Spain’s daily death toll from the coronavirus rose to 229 on Friday, up from 213 on the previous day, the health ministry reported.
Overall deaths rose to 26,299 from 26,070 on Thursday and the number of diagnosed cases rose to 222,857 …
A court in Bahirdar, northern Ethiopia, has sentenced the country’s former communications minister and close ally of late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to six years in prison for corruption.
Bereket Simon was arrested in January 2019 at h…
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has issued a rallying cry for European unity during the pandemic in a speech for the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
Steinmeier spoke after a wreath-laying ceremony at Berlin’s Neue Wache memorial, w…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has urged African governments to invest in the dissemination of the right information to their citizens.
He said that would help avert the “the total collapse of Africa’s already fragile economies …
Nana Yaw Baffour Frimpong, an activist of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Offinso South Constituency, has called for concerted efforts in the fight against the coronavirus.
He said in a situation where people outside…
The Hohoe Municipal Assembly in the Volta Region has inaugurated four zonal councils to ensure effective management and administration of the Municipality.
They are the Hohoe Zonal Council, Gbi-South Zonal Council, Agumatsa Zonal …
The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament is demanding an audit into all expenditure related to the COVID-19.
The Minority, at a press conference in Parliament House in Accra, condemned the Government for misapplyin…
Coronavirus – South Africa: Ministry of Communications & Digital Technologies congratulates South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) on improved Market Share
The Ministry appreciates the crucial role that the public broadcaster is …
Zilla Limann, daughter of former President Dr Hilla Limann, has bemoaned the lack of a national agenda to propel the nation’s growth and development and alleged that the nation is still marking time due to lack of leadership clear cut agen…
Berliners have been given an unprecedented public holiday, to mark the end of World War Two in Europe but also liberation from Nazi rule.
Not since reunification has a German city acknowledged 8 May as a day of liberation in this way; s…
A Nigerian medical team investigating reports of a rise in deaths in the northern state of Jigawa has said it has found no evidence to support the claims.
The five medics were sent to the town of Hadeja following rumours of an increase …