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South Africa has expressed willingness to assist Madagascar to undertake scientific analysis of COVID Organics (CVO), a herbal drink that is said to prevent…

Zweli Mkhize, health minister of South Africa revealed today that 511 health workers have tested positive for the coronavirus. Two, a doctor and a nurse, have died, he said. Mkhize made…

All West African countries including Nigeria are expected to get Madagascar herbs for cure of Coronavirus. This was disclosed on Sunday by President Andry Rajoelina of Madagascar on Instagram. He said while the herbs are expected…

Niger’s Minister of Employment and Labour, Mohamed Ben Omar, died on Sunday, his party said, without stating the cause of death. He died Sunday afternoon at the main hospital of the capital Niamey, the Social Democratic Party said…

Ghana has recorded more than 1,000 additional cases of COVID-19 since the country lifted its lockdown. Last week, Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo lifted a three-week lockdown on the basis of “improved coronavirus testing”. The…

Prime Minister Nuno Nabiam of Guinea-Bissau and several other senior officials have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Lusa news agency reported on Wednesday that Nabiam…

Researchers in Ghana have developed a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kit for COVID-19 as part of efforts to aid quicker diagnosis. The scientists at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Incas Diagnostics,…

Military commander Khalifa Haftar has declared himself the ruler of Libya with a “popular mandate” from the people. In a televised speech on Monday night, the leader of the…

South Africa’s divisions over race and wealth inequality, which the COVID-19 crisis had briefly sidelined, returned to the fore on Monday’s 26th anniversary of the end of apartheid. President Cyril Ramaphosa has been praised for…

Egypt confirmed on Sunday 215 new cases and 10 deaths of COVID-19, raising the total number of cases registered in the country to 4,534, including 317 deaths, said the Egyptian Health Ministry. Meanwhile, 62 COVID-19 patients were…

Ghana has recorded 271 new cases of COVID-19, a week after lifting the lockdown in Accra, the country’s capital city, and Kumasi. The cases which were confirmed on Sunday brings the…

As the world battles the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Africa has recorded 9,106 COVID-19 recoveries from its 30,329 confirmed cases in 52 African countries. Data from the Africa Centres for Disease…

African Heads of State and Government as well as business leaders in the continent have expressed strong support for a two-year debt standstill as a result of the ravaging coronavirus pandemic. The position emerged from a…

South Africans will have to wear face masks from May 1 when coronavirus lockdown restrictions will begin to be eased, the government said Saturday. “It is going to be mandatory to…

Very little now separates South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria as the worst hit by the coronavirus. The four countries now account for about 50 percent of Africa’s confirmed cases of 28,076 as…

South Africa’s government will begin easing a lockdown that has devastated the economy from next month, and assess the levels of restrictions that need to remain in place in towns and provinces based on the risks posed by the…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa plans to deploy more than 73,000 extra troops to help implement a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the defence minister said. The country is four weeks into a strict police and…

Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has just suggested via a tweet that the president’s directive to lift the partial lockdown in the West African country is a big mistake from the authorities. The National Democratic Congress…

Ghanaians took to the streets to celebrate in numbers after President Nana Akufo-Addo, lifted the 21-day coronavirus lockdown in the country. The government lifted a 21-day lockdown of its biggest cities after the restrictions bought the…

African diplomats have threatened to shut down their consulates in China to protest the increasing racist attacks and maltreatment of Nigerians and other Africans by Chinese officials in…

Africa is expected to reverse an economic contraction linked to fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic next year, according to the International Monetary Fund, but the impact will be felt for years to come. Sub-Saharan Africa’s gross…

A number of food and liquor stores have been looted in South Africa amid a strict national lockdown that was put in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Incidents were reported…

South Africans attacked police officers on the streets of Cape Town on Tuesday as the effects of a Coronavirus inspired lockdown bites harder. Police fired rubber bullets and teargas at residents…

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, on Monday, warned against those seeking to exploit the nationwide lockdown over coronavirus “for their own sinister ends’’.…