News24.com | Police patrol streets as Zimbabwe begins coronavirus lockdown
Zimbabwe on Monday began enforcing a three-week lockdown in its fight against coronavirus after the disease left one person dead and infected six others. President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared a 21-day…
News24.com | Sierra Leone scraps controversial pregnant girl school ban
Sierra Leone has overturned a ban on pregnant girls attending school, the government said on Monday, adding that it sought to build a state that embraced every citizen. In a…
News24.com | Nigerians brace for lockdown as Africa tries to halt virus
Over 20 million Nigerians on Monday scrambled to prepare for lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggled to curb the spread of…
News24.com | Zimbabweans enter Covid-19 lockdown amid severe economic crisis
Zimbabwe began a 21-day nationwide lockdown on Monday, following neighbour South Africa in implementing some of the world’s toughest anti-Covid-19 coronavirus measures likely to hurt an economy already suffering hyperinflation…
News24.com | Coronavirus: Zimbabwe begins 21-day ‘total’ lockdown
Harare – Zimbabwean authorities on Monday began enforcing a three-week lockdown in its fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) after the disease left one person dead and…
News24.com | Trump ditches hopes of quick coronavirus bounce-back for US, while Nigeria orders lockdown
Washington – US President Donald Trump has extended emergency novel coronavirus (Covid-19) restrictions for the United States where his top scientist warned up to 200 000 people could die, as…
News24.com | Zimbabweans fear ‘starving in their own homes’ as 21-day coronavirus lockdown looms
Zimbabweans braced on Sunday for a three-week lock-down to curb the spread of the coronavirus which has killed one person so far and infected six others, and for many the…
News24.com | Coronavirus: Kenyan police using ‘excessive force’ during curfew
Human rights groups have condemned the “unnecessary and excessive use of force” by Kenyan police as the country imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew amid efforts to slow the spread of the…
News24.com | Coronavirus: Africa ‘unfortunately’ last in queue for life-saving ventilators amid global shortage
As South African hospitals and healthcare workers brace for a likely avalanche of critically ill Covid-19 patients, they may soon be faced with a disastrous shortage of life-saving ventilators. The…