Kenyan health officials are giving communities safer options to substitute traditions that require physical contact in the wake of coronavirus outbreak Instead of a traditional handshake between traders in northern Kenya’s animal markets to signify the completion of a trade deal, health officials are showing them how to use herders’ sticks or an elder’s stick. […]
The Emir of Kaura-Namoda in Zamfara State, Mohammed Ahmad Asha, is dead. He died while waiting for his result of COVID-19 test. The monarch’s death is coming less than 24-hours after the Emir of Rano, Dr. Tafida Abubakar Ila II, passed on Saturday, after a brief illness. His younger brother, the Dan Jekan Kaura Namoda, […]
Tanzania’s leading opposition party has called for a suspension of Parliament after three legislators died of unknown causes in the past 11 days. Freeman Mbowe, chairman of the opposition Chadema party, has repeatedly accused the government of covering up the true extent of the coronavirus pandemic and implied the MPs had died from COVID-19, the […]
Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg, who was tried alongside Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 87. As a member of the ANC’s military wing, he was convicted of armed resistance to white-minority rule and sentenced to four life terms in 1964. He was imprisoned for 22 years. Confirming the news of […]
The Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau, Nuno Gomes Nabiam has tested positive for COVID-19, according the country’s Ministry of Health. A BBC report sighted by BestNewsGH.com also reveals that the Country’s Interior Minister as well as two other Ministers have also contracted the Virus. BestNewsGH.com reports the Prime Minister as positing that several Members of […]
MPs in Uganda who allocated themselves a total of 10bn Ugandan shillings ($2.6m; £2m) to raise awareness about coronavirus have been ordered to hand back the money. Each MP was set to get the equivalent of $5,000, although some rejected the cash. Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni criticised the MPs and called their decision to allocate funding to […]
Residents of Ebonyi State in Nigeria have been thrown into a state of shock and mourning following the discovery of the bodies three biological sister floating in a river. BestNewsGH.com sources report that the bodies were discovered by some villagers who raised and alarm and called in the police, who took charge of the matter. […]
The Ivorian presidential candidate and former rebel leader, Guillaume Soro, has been convicted in absentia of embezzlement and sentenced to 20 years in jail. He was fined the equivalent of $7.4m (£6m) and barred from civic duties for five years. The trial was boycotted by Mr Soro’s lawyers who said the allegations against him were […]
Is Magufuli a demigod or the general African leadership has started stepping up to Chinese Killer loans? Let’s digest it. A few years back, African leaders developed a sudden inexplicable craze for Chinese killer loans with terms and conditions that beats logic. They sign Chinese loan agreements that they know very well they cannot pay back […]
Former Arsenal, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Togolese International, Emmanuel Adebayor, has revealed why he hasn’t made any humanitarian or relief donations during the Coronavirus pandemic. Adebayor, regarded as one of Africa’s richest footballers with a choice collection of cars and mansions in Africa and Europe, says he won’t be joining his African compatriots like […]
“I think it’s very, very important that we tailor a specific Ghanaian, African response to the handling of this pandemic, and not necessarily copy blindly the methods that are being adopted by countries to the north of us and elsewhere.” These were the words of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on […]
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as part of moves to combat the COVID-19 pandemic are due to hold a virtual extraordinary summit tomorrow, April, 23, 2020. A press release from the ECOWAS Commission and sighted by BestNewsGH.com read in part that ‘’Preceding this Extraordinary Summit, the Ministers in Charge of […]
