News24.com | Gambia hunting 14 coronavirus quarantine escapees
Gambian authorities were on Friday searching for 14 people who broke out of a hotel where they had been quarantined as a coronavirus precaution and escaped, health officials said. The…
News24.com | The mighty Nile river is being threatened by pollution and climate change
Early one morning in Cairo, volunteers paddle their kayaks across the Nile, fishing out garbage from the mighty waterway that gave birth to Egyptian civilisation but now faces multiple threats.…
News24.com | ‘Woefully unprepared’ – Mali panics over coronavirus
At a seven-bed isolation centre in Mali’s capital Bamako, medical staff are scrambling to prepare for an outbreak of the new coronavirus. There, they have the West African country’s only…
News24.com | Congo reports first virus death, five new cases
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday reported its first coronavirus death, along with five new cases. The country has reported 23 cases total since March 10, and the death…
News24.com | Mali soldiers killed in ‘jihadist attack’
About 30 Malian soldiers were killed and five more injured in a suspected jihadist attack on Thursday in the north of the country, the army said. The attack took place…
News24.com | Niger announces first coronavirus case
Niger on Thursday recorded its first coronavirus case in a man returning to Niamey from Togo via Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso, the health minister said. The 36-year-old man from…
News24.com | Tunisia president announces nationwide self-isolation
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday declared a nationwide, round-the-clock self-isolation of inhabitants to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country, after an increase in confirmed cases.…
News24.com | WATCH | Algerians pray at home as coronavirus fears heighten
A usually crowded mosque in Algeria is now empty as the call to prayer urges believers to pray from home to fight the spread of the coronavirus. The death toll…
News24.com | Nigeria, South Africa step up fight against virus in Africa
Lagos – African countries led by Nigeria and South Africa have ramped up action against the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) after the continent recorded its first fatality. Nigeria said on Thursday…