News24.com | Burkina Faso frees prisoners to stem virus spread
Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Thursday pardoned more than 1 200 prisoners in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the poor…
News24.com | Fury in Kenya over police brutality amid coronavirus curfew
Since November, Emily Nyambura had been running a thriving mobile coffee business in Mathare, a densely populated settlement in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. With a growing customer base, she would earn…
News24.com | Over 250 rescued in Niger desert, put in quarantine
More than 250 Europe-bound migrants were rescued in Niger’s arid north and placed in coronavirus quarantine after being abandoned by traffickers, the International Organisation for Migration said on Thursday. The…
News24.com | Coronavirus in Zimbabwe: UN launches famine and virus aid plan
Authorities in Zimbabwe and the United Nations on Thursday launched an emergency humanitarian plan worth $715 million to help a third of the country’s population, threatened by famine and at…
News24.com | Libya marks year of fighting, fears worse to come
While the world is gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, war-shattered Libya marks one year Saturday of its latest bloody conflict that is plunging it ever deeper into chaos. Russia, Turkey,…
News24.com | As shutdown extended, Rwanda’s poor confront further hardship
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.…
News24.com | Coronavirus wrap: Global death toll nears 48 000, US jobless claims hit 6.65 million and former Somali PM, 83, dies
Keeping you up to date on the latest novel coronavirus (Covid-19) news from around the world. FOLLOW LIVE | Covid-19: Police use force to evacuate refugees from crowded church in…
News24.com | Nigeria announces ‘massive’ joint offensive on jihadists in region
Abuja – Nigeria on Thursday said it had launched a “massive” joint offensive with troops from Chad and Niger against jihadists waging a decade-long insurgency in the region. The announcement…
News24.com | Coronavirus: African countries reach for malaria medicine
Despite loud appeals for caution, Africans are rushing to embrace chloroquine, the venerable anti-malaria drug touted as a possible treatment for coronavirus. From hospitals in Senegal to pharmaceutical companies in…