COVID-19: 108 Companies fined for hiking food prices; consumers barred from panic buying and hoarding Traders in Rwanda who are hiking food prices during the CoronaVirus pandemic will be delt with a wrath, government has said. The Minister of Trade and Industry, Soraya M. Hakuziyaremye, has warned that she will suspend trade licences and […]
ZIMBABWE’S public hospital doctors went on strike Wednesday over what they called a lack of adequate protective gear as the coronavirus begins to spread in a country whose health system has almost collapsed. The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association president, Tawanda Zvakada, said doctors were at “high risk” of contracting the virus. “We will return to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
