Guinea-Bissau currently has 761 confirmed coronavirus cases, including 26 recoveries and 3 deaths in the West African nation.
Author: Sumner Shagari Sambo
“In this new phase that will last not a few weeks but three or four months, we need to learn to live in the presence of the virus,” President Macky Sall said.
The troops were on a routine patrol on Sunday morning in Aguelhok commune in the north of the country, when their convoy hit a roadside bomb.
A video circulating on social media, which could not be independently verified, appears to show Koroma telling a crowd that rioters will be shot.
“The grenade was thrown by unidentified criminals… Two people were killed on the spot and eight more were evacuated to nearby hospitals,” said a local official who asked not to be named.
Lt. Jules Ngongo said 17 militiamen were killed at Bese and the remainder at nearby Kabakaba, to the north of Bunia. Bese is some 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the provincial capital Bunia.
“We note with concern that the Western Cape and Eastern Cape combined comprises 84 percent of the total new cases,” Health Minister, Zwelini Mkhize said.
Ashu Prisley Ojong is one of the first senior elected official to be killed in the conflict between Cameroon’s army and English-speaking militias.
His lawyer Mahamoudou Ahamada said the former leader was being illegally detained as “the legal terms of preventive detention (eight months) have been exceeded, and no judge has charged him with anything.
Lagos, a city of some 20 million people, has been the country’s main hotspot and the daily increase in recorded cases has doubled in the past few days.