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The announcement comes just days before Burundians go to the polls on May 20 to choose a new president, parliamentarians and local officials.

“This will enable (the) MEC to have more time to process the results before the end of 150 days ordered by the court,” Malawi Electoral Commission chairwoman Jane Ansah said and asked parliament to endorse the date.

The global response to the pandemic has benefited from the work of Ethiopian doctors overseas, including aides to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — who is himself Ethiopian, though not a doctor — and emergency-room physicians in hotspots like New York.

The health ministry’s emergency preparedness manager, Dr. Mathew Tut, said the two infected people were South Sudanese and in their 20s.

The move is intended to allow some categories of flight movements amid growing demand for the service, Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) Director General, Hamza Johari told reporters on Monday.

“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.

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.

Heath officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have already warned that COVID-19 could spread exponentially through the country in the first two weeks of May.

Former Communications Minister, Bereket Simon was found guilty on two counts, of corruption and mismanagement of the institution, court spokesman, Tazebachew Tassie said.