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The second largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) began a 48-hour lockdown on Monday after the arrival of two people with suspected coronavirus aboard a flight from…

The coronavirus pandemic has done what the Algerian regime had failed to achieve for more than a year – clear the streets of massive anti-government protests. Now the “Hirak” citizens…

A second senior military officer in Egypt has died of the new coronavirus, state television reported on Monday, as the officially declared death toll stood at 14 from 327 cases…

Perched comfortably on a makeshift stool, Wilbert Mutaurwa attends to a customer at the corner of a shopping centre in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. “Today, I decided to come to work…

Police fire teargas to disperse traders and buyers on a street market in the Kenyan city of Kisumu, after the government ordered a shutdown to prevent the spread of the…

Nigeria on Monday reported its first death from coronavirus as confirmed cases of infections in Africa’s most populous nation climbed further. “The 1st Covid-19 death in Nigeria has been recorded,”…

President Andry Rajoelina on Sunday ordered lockdowns in Madagascar’s two main cities to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus across the poor Indian Ocean nation. “From tomorrow, Monday…

A Zimbabwe spokesman warned people against flocking to church Sunday in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, and even claimed that worshippers risked going to hell. “A quick survey around…

Rwanda imposed a nationwide shutdown and border controls to combat the coronavirus at the weekend in some of the strictest measures taken in Africa, as infections spread across the continent…