News24.com | Botswana’s first Covid-19 victim already buried, infection toll now at four
Delayed results led Botswana to believe the three Covid-19 coronavirus cases announced this week were the country’s first, but a life had already been lost to the virus. It emerged…
News24.com | A fight to save the pangolin – in an African forest
The prehistoric shape is hard to make out as it moves slowly through the gloomy forest, so trackers listen for the rustle of scales against the leaves to pick up…
News24.com | Kenyan teen shot during coronavirus curfew
Kenyan police on Tuesday ordered a probe into the shooting of a 13-year-old boy on his balcony in Nairobi as officers allegedly opened fire to enforce a nighttime curfew. Residents…
News24.com | Water crisis could sabotage Zimbabwe’s coronavirus lockdown
Buckets and jerrycans in hand or in wheelbarrows, dozens of Zimbabweans stand close to each other in a long queue, patiently waiting at a borehole in Harare’s middle-class Mabelreign suburb…
News24.com | Millions of Nigerians enter lockdown as Africa tries to halt virus
More than 20 million Nigerians on Monday went into lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggles to curb the spread of coronavirus.…
News24.com | Former Congo president Yhombi Opango, 81, dies of coronavirus in France
Brazzaville – Former Republic of Congo president Jacques Joaquim Yhombi Opango died in France on Monday of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), his family told AFP. He was 81. Yhombi Opango,…
News24.com | Lockdown expected for Botswana as it records its first 3 Covid-19 cases
Botswana has confirmed its first cases of Covid-19 coronavirus infections, which will see the country up its precautionary measures. A lockdown announcement is expected from President Mokgweetsi Masisi when he…
News24.com | Opposition leader in Niger freed under coronavirus prison release
The main opposition figure in Niger, Hama Amadou, who has been in prison since last November for alleged baby smuggling, is among more than 1 500 inmates who are being…
News24.com | Coronavirus: Libya frees over 450 inmates due to pandemic fears
Tripoli – Libya’s justice ministry announced on Sunday that over 450 prisoners were being freed in a bid to protect against the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in the…