AFRICA

Burundi has expelled the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the country and three other health experts. An unsigned letter from the foreign affairs ministry declares the WHO representative Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo and three others as “persona non grata” and gives them 48 hours to leave the country. The …

A few weeks ago, popular televangelist Temitope Balogun Joshua aka T.B Joshua was seen visiting the mountains to pray and fast. He vowed not to come down until the virus vanishes. Well, he has come down from the mountains earlier than we had expected and he has come with some …

A High Court in Port Harcourt, Nigeria has sentenced a level 200 student of Physics department, University of Port Harcourt, Ifeanyi Dike and his cousin, Ugochukwu Nwamiro, to death by hanging over murder. One is to be hanged on his neck until he dies while the other is to be …

Twelve people arrested on suspicion of terror offences have been found dead in their police cells in Burkina Faso. The prosecutor for the town of Fada N’Gourma said 25 people had been detained overnight on Monday, and “unfortunately, 12 of them have died during the course of the night in …

A 47-year-old man, Uchenna Egbuchulem, from Nduhu Alaenyi, Ogwa in Mbaitoli local government area of Imo state, has been paraded by the Imo state police command, for allegedly raping and impregnating his seventeen years old daughter, Adaku Egbuchulem. The Police Command in Owerri, through its State Police Public Relations Officer, …

More than 800 sex workers across Botswana will receive food hampers donated by non-governmental organizations this week, with priority given to migrants; those who are HIV-positive and those with young children. Two NGOs working with the sex workers’ organization, Sisonke, are assisting with the handouts. Program manager Mandla Pule says …

Senegalese engineering students are throwing themselves at the West African state’s growing coronavirus problem with inventions such as automatic sanitiser dispensers and medical robots. Youngsters from a top engineering school in the capital Dakar have turned their technical skills toward easing pressure on the wards – and they are already …

Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has insisted that his country will proceed to use their indigenous COVID-19 cure to treat patients infected with the virus. WHO has consistently warned against Madagascar’s COVID-Organics on the basis that they have not been clinically tested and proven. But in Andry Rajoelina’s view, the position …

At least 23,000 people escaping violence in north-western Nigeria have fled to neighbouring Niger in recent weeks, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. The refugees were “mainly desperate women and children”, who had been allowed to seek protection in Niger despite border closures as a result of coronavirus pandemic, …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana is collating information on Ghanaians and Legal Permanent Residents who are stranded abroad as a result of the closure of international borders in the containment of the Covid-19 Pandemic. To this end, eligible nationals who are prepared to pay for …