AFRICA

A Zimbabwean national has been arrested in South Africa for selling essential services permits to business people to operate during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown. Police spokesperson Ndivhuwo Mulamu said members of the public in Olivenhoutbosch town in Gauteng province tipped off the police. Some undercover officers contacted the man wanting …

The Ministry of Health of Uganda revealed that people living in quarantine centres across the country have started having sex with each other. Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Health Diana Atwine made the revelation in an interview with a section of the media. She said that the Ministry is …

The number of prisoners who have tested positive for coronavirus in a correctional facility in South Africa has increased by 49 in two days. The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) said the number of infected prisoners at the East London Correctional Centre now stands at 53. Some 23 prison officials …

Abubakar Shekau, factional leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group says it is evil that birthed the coronavirus pandemic in an audio message released on late Tuesday on Twitter by a Nigerian news analysis portal, Hum Angle. Shekau speaks in Hausa – a dominant language used across most parts of …

In late January, China put 60 million residents on lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus in its hardest-hit region, the Hubei province. Residents were not allowed out of their homes except to go to grocery stores or pharmacies. Planes, trains, and buses into and out of the city were shut …

When Africa’s first case of coronavirus was detected in Egypt in February, the rest of the continent prepared for the brunt of a pandemic that has engulfed Europe and spread to the United States, infecting more than 1.6 million worldwide. Health experts warned of the devastation the deadly virus could …

March was arguably the busiest month for President Cyril Ramaphosa in his tenure as head of state. Every other day, the President is putting out fires – some created unnecessarily by members of his own cabinet. The extended five-week national lockdown has postponed South Africa’s worst-case Covid-19 scenario to September, …

Uganda lost power countrywide on Tuesday after weeds clogged the intake of water at its three largest hydropower dams which generate most of the country’s electricity, the Ministry of Energy said in a statement. It happened just as President Yoweri Museveni was getting ready to address the nation as its …

The threat of being infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus did little to deter Botswana’s Members of Parliament – all of whom were quarantined – as the House endorsed a six-month state of emergency declaration. The state of emergency could see the landlocked diamond-rich country facing an extended and much stricter …

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is 2 415, as of Tuesday, 14 March. Releasing the update of cases, the Health Department said the total number of tests conducted to date is 87 022. Gauteng has 909 cases, Western Cape 643, KwaZulu-Natal 489, Eastern Cape 174, …