Polls have closed in Mali’s long-delayed parliamentary elections which were held despite concerns about security and the coronavirus pandemic. Sunday’s vote came hours after the violence-hit West African country announced its first coronavirus death and days after main opposition leader Soumaila Cisse was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. The vote was …

Temitope Balogun Joshua, commonly referred to as TB. Joshua, the renowned Nigerian televangelist has subtly responded to those who were anticipating a heavy rainfall last week to signal the end of the deadly coronavirus in the world. Many were those who were expecting a heavy downpour to wash away the …

Residents the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs have Friday, March 27, to remember as a day on which indiscipline attitudes were met with radical responses from personnel of the Ghana Army during the turn of the metropolis for disinfection of markets there in the wake of the spread of the …

A staff of Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge Hospital) has hinted to host of Onua 95.1 FM’s Anigye Mmre Christian Agyei Frimpong that former MUSIGA President Bice Osei Kuffour aka Obour stormed the hospital’s morgue with some men to retrieve the body of his father hours after he died of Coronavirus. …

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has suspended in-studio discussions for its communication officers following the lockdown announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo. To this effect, all such discussions in the Ashanti Region, Greater Accra and other parts of the Central Region have been discouraged by the party amidst the Coronavirus …

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who made history as Africa’s first elected female president, led Liberia for 12 years including during the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak that killed nearly 5,000 people in her country. The BBC asked the Nobel Peace Laureate for her reflections on the current coronavirus crisis. Dear fellow citizens of …

A homemade bomb killed three soldiers in north-west Burkina Faso on Sunday. The attack happened after a patrol vehicle jumped on a mine in Gomboro in the Sourou province, according to Le Faso news website. Two soldiers died on the spot while the third one succumbed to injuries while being …

Restriction of movements in some parts of Accra, Tema, Kasoa and Kumasi is in full force for two weeks, as a way of controlling the spread of the dreaded novel Coronavirus in Ghana. These areas are described by the Ghana Health Service as the epicenters, where substantial numbers of the …

As Spain’s death toll hit 4,089, the Chinese embassy in Madrid said on Thursday (26 March) that the Spanish government had bought a batch of faulty COVID-19 testing kits from an unauthorised Chinese company, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to almost 56,188 on Thursday (26 March), …

US President Donald Trump has announced that the United States government will not pay for the security of British Royals Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle if they decide to leave Canada and relocate to the United States. Harry and Meghan are set to complete the final stage of …