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Ghana has announced a two-week lockdown in the country’s two main regions from Monday to curb the spread of coronavirus. The move came as the authorities reported 137 confirmed cases,…

Morocco’s economy ministry said on Friday it had allocated two billion dirhams ($201 million) to bolster medical equipment needed to fight the novel coronavirus, including the purchase of 100 000…

The normally bustling markets have thinned out and the notoriously clogged roads are eerily free: Lagos is lurching towards shutdown as Nigeria tries to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Enforcing…

The Central African Republic, a poverty-stricken state that the UN has singled out as highly vulnerable to coronavirus, has stepped up measures over fears that the disease is spreading locally.…

The World Health Organisation’s regional director for Africa on Friday warned the continent faced a “dramatic evolution” of the coronavirus pandemic. Of the 47 countries in the WHO Africa region…

Ugandan police said on Friday that two men were in hospital after being shot for violating restrictions on transport in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus. Ugandan President…

Researchers this week began validation trials on a Covid-19 diagnostic test that can be done at home and produce results in as little as 10 minutes – all for $1.…

Less than a year after Zimbabwe outlawed the use of foreign currencies in local transactions, the country’s central bank has granted permission to citizens to pay for goods and services…

Malians on Sunday vote in a long-delayed parliamentary election, despite a raging jihadist conflict, the recent kidnap of a leading opposition politician and the coronavirus pandemic. Experts see the vote…