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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…

The number of COVID-19 cases in South Africa on Thursday rose to 900, President Cyril Ramaphosa says as the country prepares to institute a lockdown. “We now have more than 900…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he has tested negative for coronavirus after taking the test as a precautionary measure. The presidency said this in a statement on…

Uganda has confirmed five new coronavirus cases, bringing the total to 14. Minister of State for Primary Health Care Joyce Moriku Kaducu said Wednesday that two of the new cases are Chinese nationals while the others are Ugandans.…

The number of Covid-19 cases in South Africa has risen to 709, the country’s health minister said on Wednesday. The ministry also warned that the worst was still to come amid the…

Senegal and South Africa issued curfews Monday as part of measures against the novel coronavirus, which has claimed more than 16,000 lives worldwide. Following a nine-hour-long meeting,…

            Massive medical supplies donated by China’s Jack Ma Foundation to 54 African countries to battle coronavirus, arrived on Sunday morning in Addis Ababa, through an Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight. They include 5.4…

Four ministers in Burkina Faso have tested positive for coronavirus, as the country slammed a curfew and closed all land, sea, rail and air links. Foreign Minister Alpha…

U.S. passengers arriving on aircraft into South Africa are not being allowed to disembark, and have been told to go back home because of the…

Angola has received, through the Luanda port, the first batch of 75,000 head of cattle from Chad as repayment for $100 million debt. The leaders of the two countries last year agreed that the 2017 debt would be paid with 75,000 head…

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has stunned his critics by announcing that he will not run for a third term, putting pressure on other regional leaders to follow his…

The coronavirus cases in South Africa has increased by 23 to 85, Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize said in a report by the state-owned news agency.. The minister noted that there had been eight cases…

When a passenger arriving from Brussels at Cameroon’s Yaounde Nsimalen airport on Saturday was found to have a temperature, health officials say he was whisked to a hospital and diagnosed inside four hours as the country’s fourth…

Zimbabwe’s president has declared a state of national disaster as the country anticipates the impact of the novel coronavirus (Covid19) – even though there are no confirmed infections there. Anadulo Agency reported that the…

A Tanzanian politician Paul Christian Makonda is proposing a bill that would compel husbands to give 40 per cent of their salaries to their wives. Paul Makonda, who is the regional commissioner of…