The Nigerian president’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died on Friday after contracting the new coronavirus, two presidency spokesmen said on Twitter. Kyari, who was in his 70s and had underlying health problems including diabetes, was the top official aide to 77-year-old President Muhammadu Buhari and one of the most powerful men in the country. […]
It’s 5am and I stir. My stomach feels cramped. I have slept no more than four hours. My mind races. The problems cascade through. I hear the birds and do my meditation. My wife Angie and I are in the middle of an Easter study on the Book of Daniel, and I can’t help but […]
Dozens of Kenyans who have been in mandatory quarantine attempted to storm out of an isolation centre in the capital, Nairobi, because of what they say are unbearable conditions. The health ministry says 225 people across the country have been infected with the virus, and people who recently entered the country before the closure of […]
Teams of Chinese doctors have set off to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso to support efforts to fight coronavirus pandemic, state-owned China Global Television Network reports. Their exact number unspecified, but they are drawn from Sichuan Province and Tianjin Municipality. They left for Africa on Thursday according to China’s foreign ministry. They will share experience, provide […]
Sex workers in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa have petitioned the government to list them as essential service providers amid the coronavirus lockdown. They argue that they have lost their source of income as a result of the global pandemic. The city, alongside Nairobi and Kilifi, were identified as COVID-19 hotspots and placed on a 21-day partial lockdown on April 8. According […]
The European Union (EU) has gifted Nigeria €50 million, the equivalent of 21 Billion Naira to help it fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic. BestNewsGH.com can report that the disclosure of the donation was made when Nigerian President, Mahamadu Buhari received a delegation from the European Union at the country’s State House in Abuja on Tuesday, […]
African governments have teamed up to fight the alleged acts of racial discrimination against their nationals residing in China. Last week, there were widespread videos and various reports of some ‘ill-treatment’ being meted out to Africans in the Chinese city, Guangzhou, including eviction from places of residence, being avoided in public, among others. Though China […]
Ugandan president, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, believes the biggest problem for African authorities managing the fight against the coronavirus pandemic is the “social indiscipline of our people”. President Museveni expressed his sentiments in a tweet he posted on Wednesday on his official Twitter page. This follows what has become a daily habit of telling Ugandans what he […]
Several MPs in Botswana have been caught breaking their self-isolation instructions and have now been placed in supervised quarantine. On Thursday, all parliamentarians and President Mokgweetsi Masisi were asked to quarantine for 14 days after a health worker who had been screening them for the coronavirus herself tested positive. However a government statement said some […]
Cameroon’s aged president is coming under fire for his absence from the national stage as the central African country faces a burgeoning coronavirus crisis. A month after the first case of COVID-19 was recorded, 87-year-old Paul Biya has yet to address the nation — a silence that for supporters is a sign of gravitas but […]
South Africa’s communications minister has been suspended for two months – one of which will be without pay – for having lunch with a friend during the coronavirus lockdown. Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has been the talk of the town since a photograph of her eating with Mduduzi Manana surfaced this week. The image, which shows the […]
President Faure Gnassingbé has announced several social, political and economic measures to make life easier for the Togolese people as the coronavirus pandemic keeps spreading worldwide. As part of these measures, starting this month, access to water and power is free for the next three months. In detail, concerning water, households with a monthly consumption […]
