African News

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’’.…

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…