Nigeria’s health agency says it recorded four new coronavirus-related deaths and 79 new infections in the last 24 hours. The National Centre for Disease Control, in…
Author: Olorunwa Lawal
Kenya’s Ministry of Education will today hold a crisis meeting over the reopening of schools which were shut in response to the coronavirus pandemic. To clear…
No fewer than 21 people have been abducted by gunmen in Nigeria’s Kaduna State. The victims, which included 17 members of one family, were abducted from…
Funeral parlour owners in South Africa will on Monday begin a three-day strike action after calls from the industry for the outsourcing of mortuary facilities to…
The Nigeria Union South Africa (NUSA) has concluded plans to assist Nigerian businesses affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. NUSA said it plans a N6.8 million…
Uganda Children Authority says cases of child labour increased during the lockdown because some parents had lost their jobs, thus resorting to sending their children to…
The Advisor to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for Health Affairs, Mohammed Awad Tag al-Din, has announced 148 new coronavirus (COVID) cases in Egypt. The figure brings…
The US Africa Command (AFRICOM), in a statement at the weekend, said it believes that no fewer than 12 Russian fighter jets are being flown by…
Botswana parliament has voted against a call to rearm its game rangers, two years after guns were taken from wildlife officers. An opposition member of the…
South African authorities have seized some banned substances worth R4 million in the Western Cape area of the country. Three people, who were transporting the illegal…