Police in South Africa have arrested a man who was smuggling his girlfriend out of one Province in his car boot to another Province amid a lockdown, following the outbreak of COVID-19 in that country, BestNewsGH.com can report. Twitter user, Faith Mazibuko who broke the story on social media said the suspect was transporting his […]
Category: Africa
COVID-19: All persons involved in burial of President Buhari’s Chief of Staff identified and quarantined
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) in Nigeria has identified and isolated all persons who were in one way or the other connected with or involved in the burial of President Muhamadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari. Mr. Kyari passed on two days a go following complications related to the deadly COVID-19 virus and […]
Nigeria: President Buhari’s Chief of Staff dies from COVID-19
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. […]
COVID-19: Ken Ofori-Atta weeps for African Finance Ministers; asks, What does an African Finance Minister do now?
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 […]
COVID-19: Dozens of Kenyans in quarantine storm out of centre over ‘unbearable’ conditions
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 […]
COVID-19: Chinese doctors head to Africa to join fight
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 […]
COVID-19: ‘Add us to list of essential service providers; we have bills to pay’ – Kenyan sex workers petition gov’t
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 […]
COVID-19: EU gifts Nigeria €50 million to aid in fight
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, […]
COVID-19: African governments unite to fight China over eviction of Nationals
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 […]
Indiscpline among Africans is harder to deal with than COVID-19- President of Uganda laments
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 […]
COVID-19: MPs in Botswana caught breaking quarantine rules
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 […]
COVID-19: Cameroon president goes AWOL amid pandemic
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 […]