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Didier Drogba has offered his Laurent Pokou hospital to the fight against coronavirus in his country. Four persons have died in the COVID-19 outbreak in Ivory Coast out of 533 cases. The…

The President of African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, has said African countries put together, under the worst scenario, may lose up to US$88 billion…

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…

Egyptian police arrested a dozen people and fired tear gas in a Nile Delta village Saturday, as a crowd protested the burial of a COVID-19 victim, a security source said. Relatives had taken the body of a retired doctor from her home…

South Africa’s COVID-19 death toll reached 24  on Friday, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said. The country also reported 69 more infections, bringing the tally to 2003, Africa’s largest.…

Confirmed cases for coronavirus in Ghana have shot up by 65, bringing the total to 378, according to President Nana Akufo-Addo. In his sixth national address since the outbreak in the country,…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that a nationwide lockdown to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus would be extended by two weeks. The lockdown, which started on…

Liberian President George Weah declared a state of emergency in the West African country on Wednesday, with the capital Monrovia set to go into lockdown in a bid to curb coronavirus. In a televised…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, on a two-month special leave after she violated lockdown regulations, the Presidency said on Wednesday. Of…

President Idriss Déby of Chad has revealed that the Nigerian government supported his country’s military onslaught against Boko Haram. Deby who has relocated from Ndjamena to Boga Sola in the Lac…

In a dark ground-floor room in Lagos, dressmaker Kemi Adepoju gazes at a pile of dresses she has made but which cannot be collected due to the lockdown in force to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. “This lockdown came upon us…

South African public healthcare workers dispersed into the buzzing streets of Johannesburg's Yeoville neighbourhood on Friday as Africa's worst virus-hit country rolled out mass door-to-door testing for…

            Ivorian football legend, Didier Drogba and Cameroonian football legend, Samuel Eto’o have joined other Africans in calling out two French Doctors who asked for the new Coronavirus drug to be tested in Africa. During the…

Out of work, with prices soaring and police on the streets, life for many Rwandans has become immeasurably harder under coronavirus lockdown, and the pain looks only set to deepen. Traders have warned of food shortages in the tiny…

Tributes are being paid to world-renowned South African scientist Gita Ramjee, who has died from COVID-19-related complications. “She dedicated many years of her life to finding HIV…

Thirty-one coronavirus patients in Ghana have been discharged after recovering from the disease. Kwaku Agyemang, the country’s health minister, broke the news during an interview with journalists on Tuesday. The country has…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and 11 other African leaders on Tuesday called on the  African Union, United Nations and  World Bank   to help combat the spread of coronavirus in Africa.…

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has disclosed that there are now 5,255 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 47 countries across Africa. The health agency also said Coronavirus death cases in…

The Southern African nations of Lesotho and Zimbabwe on Monday began a 21-day lockdown, to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The lockdown will be heavily enforced by the police and the army in both nations. While both countries…

Authorities in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, have arrested prostitutes who have been visiting coronavirus isolation centres in some hotels and offering their services. The prostitutes, who earn at east $30 a night, have been…

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres   fears “millions and millions” of coronavirus cases in Africa, where the youth will not be spared. He wants wealthy countries to…

Bustling streets and long queues at supermarkets highlighted South Africa’s struggle to adapt to a new lockdown on Friday, as the country recorded its first coronavirus death. In the poor township of Alexandra near Johannesburg’s…

The World Health Organisation’s regional director for Africa on Friday warned the continent faced a “dramatic evolution” of the coronavirus pandemic. Of the 47 countries in the WHO Africa region – which includes sub-Saharan Africa…

South Africa came under a nationwide military-patrolled lockdown on Friday, joining other African countries imposing strict curfews and shutdowns in an attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus across the continent. Some 57…