Africa

Malians are voting in long-delayed parliamentary elections a day after the country's first coronavirus death.The poll has also been overshadowed by Wednesday's kidnapping...

Cooped up in an isolation ward, a young Zimbabwean man who had been diagnosed with Covid-19, pleaded with his family for help.Thirty-year-old Zororo...

Kenyan media is reporting that a woman, who was being quarantined in the Western city of Nakuru, has taken her own life. ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has donated his former residence at the Presidential Hilltop, Abeokuta, Ogun State as an isolation centre for victims of...

In a clear response to recent happenings across the globe, over two billion people have indicated interest in participating in a two-hour ...

A Nigeria pastor has has offered to treat anyone with coronavirus free of charge and also said, “anyone with coronavirus should be referred...

Two people are facing attempted murder charges after allegedly refusing to go into quarantine in South Africa, it has emerged. One of them is a...

Police in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam are holding a couple for allegedly spreading false information about coronavirus.ALSO READ:Coronavirus: Ghana records 4 new...

A woman, who was taken from Africa when she was just two years old, has been identified as the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave...

Ghana has recorded four new cases of the deadly coronavirus, shooting the number up to 136.Below is a confirmation by the Ghana Health Service...

South Africa has announced its first deaths from Coronavirus infection, and said cases there have passed the 1,000 mark."This morning, we South Africans woke...

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) today announced a donation of over $14 million through the UBA Foundation, to catalyse a comprehensive pan-African response...

The coronavirus outbreak has kept many at home with the hope of it ending soon. So many people are hoping that scientists and medical researchers finding...

South African security forces have begun enforcing a three-week nationwide lockdown in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus.All but essential movement...

The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat) and the National Movement of Sex Workers in South Africa (Sisonke) are appealing to President...

The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the campaign on constant washing of hands with soap under running water, has made the veronica buckets very...

Drug traffickers and militias in Rio de Janeiro's lawless Cidade de Deus (City of God) favela in Brazil, have taken the law into...

A nationwide curfew was announced on Wednesday, March 25 by Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, after the West African country reported its first two coronavirus...

The parish priest of Holy Cross Parish in Oroma Etiti community of Anambra State, Nigeria, Rev Fr. Charles Okeke-Odogwu was found dead in his car...

Five new cases of patients affected by the novel coronavirus have been recorded in Nigeria, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control released the...

The third person to die of Covid-19 complications in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a respected human rights lawyer and an aide...

An eight-month-old baby in Uganda, whose father recently travelled back from Kenya's western city of Kisumu, has tested positive for coronavirus.The baby girl is...

Rwandan police shot and killed two people who defied lock-down orders imposed by the government to curb the spread of the coronavirus.ALSO READ:Coronavirus:...

Tanzania's President, John Magufuli, has revealed why his government cannot close down churches and mosques in the East African country over coronavirus. ALSO READ:Coronavirus:...

There is panic buying in South Africa as people stock up on food and other essentials ahead of a lockdown on Thursday.The country has...

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, who went into self-isolation after President Muhammadu  Buhari's Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari tested positive for coronavirus, has ...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Jy9DtjcMJ/Some mothers in Abeokuta, Ogun state, came out topless to pray against the deadly coronavirus.ALSO READ:Coronavirus: Medikal and Fella to distribute toiletries to needy...

A family of four, made up of father, mother and two children, has died in their sleep in Lagos, Nigeria.According to Lagos-based Facebook user,...

The Narok County emergency response committee has forced a woman who jetted back into the country from Sweden on Wednesday to quarantine after members...

German officials are trying to track down six million face masks ordered to protect health workers, which have gone missing from an airport in...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly tested negative for Coronavirus as his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, has allegedly tested positive to the virus.ALSO READ:Coronavirus: Buhari’s...

The African saxophone legend, Manu Dibango, has died in Paris after catching coronavirus.Dibango - best known for his 1972 hit Soul Makossa - is...

Activities at the Aso Villa reportedly came to a halt today after President Buhari's Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, tested positive for coronavirus. ALSO...

Many Ugandans, including commercial drivers and conductors, are sticking to rules of social distancing by carrying only two passengers per row, in the fight...

Algeria’s health ministry has said hospitals in the North African nation can use chloroquine to treat patients infected with Coronavirus.However, the statement specifies that...

Boris Johnson has introduced tougher new measures to help stop the spread of coronavirus as the death toll in the UK reaches 335.In a stark warning...

The novel coronavirus has cancelled many events across the world and the latest to amaze Nigerians were a couple who decided to tie the...

A renowned broadcast Journalist has died through the deadly coronavirus that continues to claim thousands of lives across the globe.The death of the Zimbabwean...

Nigeria's first identified Coronavirus death involved a former Managing Director of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), Suleiman Achimugu, his family confirmed Monday.PPMC...

I reached the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport's health port on Monday at around 15:30 GMT.I queued to have my temperature checked. It was around...