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 […]
The Guinean government has announced incentive packages aimed at making the country’s citizens comfortable as they observe a lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19 in that country. BestNewsGH.com reports President Alpha Conde as ordering the free supply of water, electricity, transport as well a freeze on the payment of rent until December. The President has […]
Mahmoud Jibril, the former head of the Libyan rebel government that overthrew longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, has died from the coronavirus, his party said. Jibril, 68, died on Sunday in Cairo where he had been hospitalised for two weeks, said Khaled al-Mrimi, secretary of the National Forces Alliance, founded by Jibril in 2012. He had […]
Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé has declared a three-month state of emergency to stop the spread of coronavirus. He said the seriousness of the situation warranted the measures, which include the immediate start a curfew from 19:00-06:00 local time. A 5,000-strong unit of security agents was also being set up to tackle the pandemic as well […]
Ghana is facing a diplomatic hurdle as it attempts to repatriate Burkinabe and Guinean citizens who tested positive for coronavirus in Tamale, the Northern Region capital. Northern Region Minister, Salifu Saeed, has disclosed that authorities in Guinea are reluctant to receive eight of their citizens who tested positive for coronavirus in Ghana. The eight Guineans […]
Some 20 people were killed by a lightning strike on high-voltage power lines in Congo-Brazzaville, the authorities say. The incident happened on the first day of a lockdown in the capital, Brazzaville, to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. So far 22 cases of Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the virus, have been confirmed […]
The government in Rwanda has extended rigid lockdown restrictions imposed last month to 19 April. The lockdown that began on 21 March banned people from leaving their homes unless going out to shop for food or buy medicine. The government deployed police to enforce the restrictions. The lockdown was to end this weekend but was […]
