Under strong international pressure, China on Sunday vowed to improve the treatment of Africans in the southern city of Guangzhou following accusations of discrimination linked to the coronavirus pandemic, and…
The justice minister of Somalia’s autonomous Hirshabelle state, Khalif Mumin Tohow, has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, the second recorded death in the country. Tohow died on Sunday in…
When Africa’s first case of coronavirus was detected in Egypt in February, the rest of the continent prepared for the brunt of a pandemic that has engulfed Europe and spread…
The Covid-19 coronavirus, which has killed 100 000 people across the world, could be stalking Zimbabwe silently. There were concerns about poor preparedness, inadequate testing and socioeconomic practices that had…
Desperately needed aid for millions of people across sub-Saharan Africa is under threat as the deadly coronavirus pandemic sweeps a continent already facing a volley of crises. In some cases…
Three Botswana members of Parliament (MPs), who were expected to be in self-isolation at home, were forced into state quarantine after they were caught shopping and interacting with the public…
At a market on the outskirts of Nigeria’s megacity Lagos, yam trader Olatunji Okesanya is scrambling for produce as measures to halt the coronavirus cut him off from suppliers. “The…
A number of African countries face lockdowns to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Authorities in some cases are taking extreme measures to combat the virus, which has killed…
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands more people had slipped into the severely-hungry category in Zimbabwe, where over half of the population…
