Tunis – Tunisia’s Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh has announced that a lockdown to fight the spread of coronavirus will be extended to 3 May before it is progressively eased. The…
Lagos – Nigeria on Monday confirmed its first coronavirus infection in the insurgency-hit northeast of the country, after a medic with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) died from Covid-19. The region…
Bamako – Mali was voting on Sunday in the final round of a legislative election that aims to revive public faith in the country’s embattled institutions despite a bloody jihadist…
Conakry – A top government official in Guinea and close ally of President Alpha Conde has died from the novel coronavirus, the government said on Sunday. Sekou Kourouma, who was…
Lesotho troops deployed by Prime Minister Thomas Thabane withdrew from the capital’s streets on Sunday in a showdown between the octogenerian leader and opponents demanding his resignation. Thabane faces mounting…
N’Djamena – A group of 44 suspected members of Boko Haram, arrested during a recent operation against the jihadist group, have been found dead in their prison cell, apparently poisoned,…
Lesotho’s embattled prime minister has announced that he has sent troops onto the streets to “restore order”, accusing unnamed law enforcement agencies of undermining democracy. Prime Minister Thomas Thabane is…
The Union Jack is slowly lowered. An enormous clamour rising from across Salisbury’s Rufaro stadium hits fever pitch as 36 000 people celebrate the hoisting of the new green-gold-red-black-white flag,…
Lesotho, Samoa and North Korea. What do these countries have in common with 13 other nations? Until 17 April, they had no reported cases of the coronavirus, Al Jazeera reports.…
