News24.com | Eswatini records its first Covid-19 death
The southern African kingdom of Eswatini has recorded its first death from coronavirus, Health Minister Lizzie Nkosi said on Thursday. “The ministry sadly announces the first death of a Covid-19…
News24.com | WATCH | ‘Starve or get sick’: Africa’s lockdown dilemma
Women and children fell to the ground, bloodied and trampled in a desperate surge for food being handed out in a Nairobi slum, as police fired teargas and men with…
News24.com | Gunmen kill nine in central Nigeria attack
Gunmen on Wednesday killed nine civilians in an attack on a village in central Nigeria, said police, in what one politician describe as the latest outburst of intercommunal violence. A…
News24.com | IMF okays almost $230 million in coronavirus aid for Niger, Burkina
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved emergency aid totalling nearly $230 million to help two Sahel countries fight coronavirus. The IMF’s executive board gave the green light to disbursements…
News24.com | Zimbabwe must protect medics from coronavirus, says court
A Zimbabwe court on Tuesday ordered the government to provide healthcare workers with protective gear and roll out mass testing against the deadly coronavirus. An association of human rights doctors…
Black people in China 'banned from McDonalds and evicted from their homes' over coronavirus fears
‘They treat us like animals,’ says Max, who was forced from his apartment and put into quarantine – despite testing negative for Covid-19
News24.com | Anger in Africa over coronavirus ‘stigma’ in China
African countries are seething over accounts that Africans are battling stigma and discrimination in China over the coronavirus pandemic, apparently linked to a cluster of cases in the Nigerian community…
News24.com | IMF approves $1 bn in virus aid for Ghana
The IMF has approved a $1 billion (910-million-euro) aid package for Ghana to help the West African country manage fallout from the new coronavirus pandemic, the multilateral lender said. The…
News24.com | Ethiopia opens aid transport hub to fight Covid-19
Ethiopia and the United Nations on Tuesday opened a humanitarian transport hub at Addis Ababa airport to move supplies and aid workers across Africa to fight coronavirus. The arrangement, which…