AFRICA

Kenyan media report that a woman who was being quarantined in the western city of Nakuru has taken her own life. Health workers found her dead at the Kenya Industrial Training Institute facility where she was being held, having apparently hung herself, local media say. Local government officials also state …

Two people have died as a result of Coronavirus (COVID-19), says the Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize. “This morning, we wake South Africans up with sad news that we now have our first deaths resulting from COVID-19,” Mkhize said in a statement on Friday. The deaths occurred in the …

Bishop Sam Zuga of house of Joy ministry, the founder of both Samzuga free medical treatment and Samzuga international has offered to treat anyone with coronavirus free of charge and also said, “anyone with corona virus should be referred to him for treatment” Speaking at the healing crusade organised to …

South Africa has announced its first deaths from Coronavirus infection, and said cases there have passed the 1,000 mark. “This morning, we South Africans woke up with sad news that we now have our first deaths resulting from COVID-19,” the Health Ministry said on Friday. Both deaths took place in …

South African security forces have begun enforcing a three-week nationwide lockdown in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus. All but essential movement is forbidden and both the army and the police are enforcing the measures. Ahead of the midnight deadline there were long queues outside supermarkets as …

The coronavirus outbreak has kept many at home with the hope of it ending soon. So many people are hoping that scientists and medical researchers finding a cure or vaccine to curtail this virus. Amid all these hopes, popular Nigerian Prophet, T.B. Joshua prophesied that the virus will end today. …

The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat) and the National Movement of Sex Workers in South Africa (Sisonke) are appealing to President Cyril Ramaphosa to include sex workers as an essential service during the coronavirus lockdown. The move comes three days after President Ramaphosa announced a nationwide 21-day lockdown and ordered South …

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has confirmed that South Africa now has 927 confirmed coronavirus Covid-19 infections. This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa indicated on Thursday that the positive cases had risen to ‘over 900’. In a short statement after the president’s remarks, Mkhize said the new infections meant the country …

A Nigerian lady who goes by the name Madam Praizzy on social media has accused her parents, Bishop Jude Nkemdilim Chukwumaife and Pastor Favor Agaezi Chukwumaife of anusing her sexually and physically. Madam Praizzy who shared a video in which she showed the injuries she sustained after allegedly being assaulted …

A man in Rwanda, who breached the ongoing lock-down to reportedly go fishing, has been killed and eaten by a crocodile, the mayor of the Southern Kamonyi district has told the BBC. Alice Kayitesi said the Wednesday morning incident happened in the Nyabarongo river. “He had broken the stay-home rule, …