AFRICA

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader has lost a court appeal to remain president of the biggest opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Nelson Chamisa’s appointment as MDC leader in 2018 followed the death of Morgan Tsvangirai, a former union leader who had founded the MDC in 1999. The Supreme Court …

Ethiopia’s electoral board has postponed August’s highly anticipated general election because of the coronavirus pandemic. A new schedule would be announced once the threat of the pandemic was over, the board said. Much of its planning had been hit by the disruption caused by coronavirus, such as obtaining election materials …

Slow internet speeds are exacerbating an already frustrating period for many workers during South Africa’s three-week lockdown. This is because an undersea cable tore over the weekend. The West Africa Cable System (Wacs), which runs from Cape Town to Portugal and the UK, has caused major outages across all internet …

Three Ghanaians resident in New York in the United States of America (USA) have died of COVID-19. Information Officer Ghana Consular in New York, Kofi Ameyaw, confirmed this on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme, Tuesday. He said the deceased are two women and a man who is also a pastor in …

Boko Haram Commander killed among other 100 Boko Haram members killed. Abu Usamah, Boko Haram Commander was killed by the troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE while on special clearance operation at Gorgi in Damboa LGA of Borno State, Nigeria. The suspected Boko Haram commander killed is believed to have sustained gunshot …

Kenya’s police chief has ordered an investigation into the death of a 13-year-old boy said to have been shot on Monday evening as police enforced a curfew. The child was playing on the balcony of his parent’s house in a slum in the capital, Nairobi, when police fired live bullets …

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 Nigerian man who was seen complaining over the poor condition of an isolation center where his daughter with coronavirus is being held has asked them to discharge her so she could go die in his house. In a video that has since been going viral across the internet, the …

A Sierra Leonean former minister has been charged with treason for walking into the president’s house with a gun ahead of a meeting on coronavirus preparedness. Ex-Defence Minister Paolo Conteh was charged with 16 counts of treason in a Freetown court on Monday. The charges were read out to him, …

Two pensioners in South Africa died on Monday as they were hoping to collect money from the government in the form of social grants. One reportedly died as they were waiting in a queue in Hammersdale, a suburb of Durban, and the other died in a taxi en route to …