AFRICA

The Kenyan police have killed 12 people in an attempt to enforce a dawn to dusk curfew in the wake of Coronavirus. This figure is greater than the death toll from the pandemic in the country which stands at 11. Wilfred Olal, a rights activist, confirmed the deaths to Anadolu Agency. …

Africa could become the next epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. There was a sharp rise in cases in the past week. There have been almost 1,000 deaths and more than 18,000 infections across Africa so far, although these rates are far lower than …

South African journalist Oliver Meth, who received online death treats last year, has been missing since 8 April and his family has appealed to anyone who might know his whereabouts to come forward. According to a missing person’s report filed at the Florida police station, Meth was last seen on …

Emmanuel TV has released a video on YouTube showing citizens and residents of China confirming the ‘controversial prophecy’ from Prophet TB Joshua that the coronavirus outbreak would end in Wuhan, China by 27th March 2020. “I had been hearing about TB Joshua since I was a kid but I never …

Sooner or later animals were going to notice that the humans had disappeared and in South Africa’s Kruger National Park lions have been taking advantage. Park ranger Richard Sowry was out on patrol on Wednesday when he snapped a pride sleeping on a road which would normally be busy with …

Shehu Isah Daiyanu Dumus has run out of cash and says he only has a few handfuls of cassava flour left to eat. The 53-year-old paraplegic man usually sells phone cards. But an extended lockdown to fight the new coronavirus in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, has left him stranded. The …

Security forces enforcing the lockdown in parts of Nigeria have killed more people than coronavirus itself, a local rights group says. Evidence of the killings comes from members of the public who rang their hotline or sent in videos, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) adds. It says law enforcers …

Popular Nigerian pastor, TB Joshua, has addressed his botched prophecy in which he claimed the Coronavirus pandemic would end on 27 March 2020. The religious leader said the Holy Spirit gave him the prophecy that the pandemic would end on 27 March, The Daily Sun reports. During an interview on …

Sensational Nigerian cross-dresser Bobrisky has finally admitted that he will go to hell when he dies. According to Bobrisky in a live video with Dencia, he hears all that people say about him but none of them gets into him. And besides as people claims hell awaits him since he has transformed from male …

Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says some of the measures the government has put in place during the lockdown will remain once it is lifted. The minister was speaking during a media briefing by members of the national command council (NCC) in Pretoria on Thursday. The …