WORKERS at Kwekwe-based cement manufacturing company Lifetouch Investments, reportedly scurried for cover and refused to enter the company premises after their Chinese bosses reportedly came back into the country from their native China. The workers at the Redcliff-based company reportedly downed tools as they pleaded with their bosses to be screened first to ensure they […]
Category: Africa
Kenya: Mob attacks and kills suspected coronavirus victim
A man in Kibundani area, Kwale County on Tuesday, March 17, died after he was assaulted by a group of youth at night. The man, George Kotini Hezron, is said to have been suspected of suffering from coronavirus by the residents, who decided to take the law into their hands against CS Mutahi Kagwe’s directive that any […]
Coronavirus: Zanzibar confirms first case
Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, the East African nation’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa says. Another new case of the virus had been recorded on the mainland, in the main city of Dar es Salaam, bringing the country’s overall total to three, he said. Nearly 500,000 tourists usually travel […]
Zimbabwe declares national disaster over Coronavirus
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a national disaster over coronavirus even as the country is yet to confirm any case. Mr Mnangagwa has also postponed independence day celebrations scheduled for 18 April and banned all public gatherings of more than 100 people. The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) that was to take place in […]
Uganda: President Yoweri Museveni postpones elections to 2023 over Coronavirus
A local publication ran a piece informing that President Yoweri Museveni has put off forth-coming Uganda’s general vote owing to the coronavirus outbreak. “Museveni postpones next year’s elections to 2023 due to coronavirus,” the publication said. “The lives of Ugandans are very important more than anything else. I have consulted with my ministers and we […]
Details: Why African Presidents listens to Tony Blair
Through his institute, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), the former British Prime Minister has set up cells of experts to assist Heads of State in accelerating their priority projects. Restrained applause rippled across the hall in London on 18 February when Tony Blair proferred advice to Britain’s Labour party as it celebrated […]
Dethroned Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi breaks silence
The dethroned Emir of Kano in Nigeria, Sanusi Lamidu Sanusi says his dethronement is the will of God and that he is not oblivious of the fact that the throne is not permanent. The Governor of Kano yesterday, Monday, March 9, 2020, ordered the dethronement of the Emir who is also a former Governor of […]
Coronovirus: Tanzania President caught greeting opposition politician with is foot
President John Magufuli of Tanzania has been caught in a picture exchanging greetings with an opposition politician with his foot amid fears of Coronavirus. Tanzania’s State House which shared the picture, captures President John Magufuli exchanging the foot greeting with Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad, a politician from the opposition. The move, BestNewsGH.com is informed, forms […]
President of Guinea-Bissau resigns just after one day in office
One of the two men who had been declared president of Guinea Bissau resigned his office on Sunday – after just one full day in office. “I have no security… My life is in danger, the life of my family is in danger, the life of this people is in danger. I cannot accept that, […]
Algeria confirms first case of coronavirus
The Algerian health minister has confirmed the country’s first case of the coronavirus in an announcement on state-owned ENTV on Tuesday evening. The minister Abdel Rahman Ben Bouzid said the patient is an Italian man who arrived in the country on 17 February, Reuters news agency reports. The patient has been placed in isolation. Algeria […]
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak reported dead
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak – ousted by the military in 2011 – has died in Cairo at the age of 91. Mubarak spent three decades in office before a popular uprising swept Egypt. He was found guilty of complicity in the killing of protesters during the revolution. That conviction was overturned and was freed […]
Meet the African American son of slaves who became so rich in Nigeria that he sent his U.S. family bags of gold
Like every other average African American, James Churchill Vaughan lived a decent life trying to make ends meet in America despite several societal issues that always put the black community several steps behind the white community. Born in South Carolina in 1828, James lived with both his nuclear and extended family where they lived knowing no other place to call […]