The health authorities in Liberia have announced that Justice Minister Frank Musa Dean has tested positive for Covid-19 and was receiving treatment in a hospital outside the capital, Monrovia.
Mr Dean is quoted in the independent FrontP…
The authorities in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, have made the wearing of face masks mandatory in a bid to halt the spread of coronavirus.
The number of confirmed cases in the city stands at 731, more than half of the total confi…
President Donald Trump has taken drastic steps to curb the entry of foreigners into the United States since his administration declared a public health emergency over the new coronavirus outbreak.
Here are some of the most significant a…
U.S. House Of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed Joe Biden for president, joining a list of top Democrats to back the former vice president since he emerged as the party’s presumptive nominee to take on President Donald Trump in…
The Electoral Commission (EC) says its meeting at the City Escape Hotel in Accra is a normal meeting of the commission with its directors.
“It is an in-house meeting of directors which we hold three times in a year as part of our operat…
Executives of the Effutu Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has affirmed that Dr. James Kofi Annan remained the endorsed Parliamentary Candidate and no amount of accusations could affect his position.
"We assure all …
Coronavirus - South Africa: Water and Sanitation monitors water tank installations during Coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown
Department of Water and Sanitation to monitor installation of water tanks
Following recent media reports depictin…
Liberia has reported just over 100 cases of COVID-19 as of Friday
Lessons learned during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia six years ago are helping the West African country to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the UN Population …
The fate of migrants and asylum-seekers attempting to reach European shores from Libya has become even more uncertain due to COVID-19
MEPs will discuss with Commission, Frontex, UNHCR, Council of Europe and NGOs the migration situation …
Coronavirus – Nigeria: Tertiary Health Instituions, Federal Medical Centers receive COVID-19 Stater Packs
The starter packs consist of medical consumables to ensure the protection of frontline workers
The Honorable Minister of Health…
Coronavirus - South Africa: President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomes Cuban health professionals to support efforts to curb spread of Coronavirus COVID-19
217 Cuban health specialists and workers have arrived in South Africa today, Monday, 27 …
World Health Organization (WHO) restates the need to ensure that life saving and essential services such as malaria, are sustained and maintained
“During public health crisis like the one we currently face with COVID-19, it is easy to f…
Big business in South Africa should continue communicating during this time of crisis
The second of Bizcommunity’s (Bizcommunity.com) 360 overviews, showing SA business communities putting the grit in integrity to meet the unique econom…
Coronavirus - Africa: COVID-19 could not have come at a worse time for vulnerable communities across West Africa
Q&A with Coumba Sow, Food and Agriculture Organizatio (FAO) Resilience Coordinator for West Africa
In this interview, we…
African countries have fewer coronavirus cases than much of the world, but weaker healthcare systems do put the continent at risk.
Lockdown measures can help prevent the virus spreading, yet governments have taken very different approac…
Officials in Nigeria's northern Kano state say the recent sharp rise in deaths was not connected to Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus.
Officials say they are still investigating the cause of the deaths, but added t…
More than 200 doctors from Cuba are due to arrive in South Africa to help fight coronavirus.
The medics left on a plane that first carried a donation of South African medical supplies to the Caribbean island, its embassy in Pretoria sai…
South Africa's police force has apologised for remarks made by an officer during the arrest of Muslims who had congregated in a mosque against orders banning gatherings.
The incident, on Saturday in the Mpumalanga province, led to the a…
Rwanda's national carrier, Rwandair, has announced it will cut the net salaries of its employees by between 8% to 65% as it seeks to deal with the effects of coronavirus pandemic.
In a memo to its staff, Rwandair said the decision was m…
Johnson said the government could not yet spell out how changes to the lockdown policy would be implemented - or how quickly.
"We simply cannot spell out now how fast or slow, or even when, those changes will be made," Johnson said.
…
Some school students in Shanghai and Beijing went back to school on Monday after weeks of lockdown.
In Shanghai, students in the last year of middle and high school returned to school. In Beijing only high-school seniors went back to cl…
Junior health minister Edward Argar has said the UK is continuing to test antibody tests to determine who has already had the virus.
"The sign at the moment is positive but we're not there yet in saying this is 100% going to work," Arga…
Former President John Dramani Mahama says the lifting of the partial lockdown does not mean the country is out of the woods of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
He has, therefore, urged Ghanaians to continue to be responsible.
…
In Nigeria’s Benue state, the food basket of the country, Mercy Yialase sits in front of her idle rice mill. Demand is high across the nation, but she already has mounds of paddy rice that are going nowhere amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
“…
Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane says he will not be pushed out of office until he is ready to leave.
Mr Thabane told a popular newspaper that nobody had the right to set the time for his departure, despite a government pledge to…
The Concerned Voters Movement (CVM), has stated that the government through the prudent management of the economy is fulfilling the expectations of the citizenry.
It said the government had reduced the suffering of its workers including…
Mr Isaac Adongo, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bolgatanga Central Constituency has presented 20 none contact thermometers to the Bolgatanga Municipal Health Service to aid in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The donation…
More states in the U.S. South and Midwest signaled readiness on Wednesday to reopen their economies in hopes the worst of the coronavirus pandemic had passed, but California’s governor held firm to sweeping stay-at-home orders and business…
Mosques will remain closed during Ramadhan
Egypt's prime minister has announced that night-time curfew hours will be shortened during the holy month of Ramadhan.
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said the curfew will begin at 21:00 loc…
Blida province has the highest number of coronavirus cases
Algeria has ended a full lockdown on the northern Blida province, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, and replaced it with a curfew during the holy month o…
South Africa has announced an easing of some lockdown restrictions beginning next month, citing economic concerns.
But President Cyril Ramaphosa warned that most people should remain at home, public gatherings remain banned, and the cou…
Republican President Donald Trump trails Democrat Joe Biden among registered voters in three battleground states that he narrowly carried in 2016 and are seen as crucial to winning November’s election, according to an Ipsos public opinion …
The National Steering Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is considering holding a virtual meeting on the way forward regarding the indefinite suspension of its April 25 parliamentary primaries.
The NPP on April 14 announced th…
U.S. House of Representatives Democrats accused the Trump administration of trying to “scapegoat” the World Health Organization to distract from its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, and urged an immediate restoration of funding to the…
US President Donald Trump has been criticised by doctors for suggesting that injecting disinfectants and or using UV light “inside” the body should be researched as treatments for coronavirus.
These claims are highly misleading and are …
Mr. David Tiahno Quarshie, the Ketu South Parliamentary Candidate (PC) of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has donated assorted items in support of the aged and the vulnerable in the constituency.
These included bags of maize, sach…
Coronavirus - Nigeria: IOM Builds Quarantine Shelters as Conflict-Affected Borno State Records First COVID-19 Cases
The quarantine shelters will consist of individual units with a latrine, shower, handwashing station and living quarters…
Vaccines will ensure uninterrupted routine immunization services for children in Uganda
Uganda has today received 3,842,000 doses of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) to support ongoing routine immunization services throughout the coun…
Coronavirus - Africa: In the battle against COVID-19, aid groups are achieving results for vulnerable communities
Non-governmental organizations, UN agencies and the Red Cross and Red Crescent are scaling up and delivering vital assista…
Community conversation facilitators and grassroots activists are working to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19 for migrants, and other vulnerable communities
In the wake of the COVID-19 induced state of emergency in Ethiopia, the I…
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) has hailed African countries for engaging a vigorous gear to stem the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases.
The plaudits come after South Africa and Morocco were praised for their efforts in slowing down the…
In Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, and South Africa, MSF has started producing cloth masks for use in the community
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are racing to respond to the coronavirus pandemic i…
Health care workers are at the front line of the COVID-19 outbreak response and as such are exposed to hazards that put them at risk of infection
The first United Nations ‘Solidarity’ flight started delivering vital medical supplies fro…
Coronavirus - Liberia; Learning from Ebola experience, Liberia deploys contact tracers to break COVID-19 transmission
Contact tracers are urgently being recruited, trained and deployed.
On 16 March 2020, Liberia confirmed the presence of…
UNHCR reminds governments of their international obligations and to uphold commitments made during high-level regional dialogues last year in Abuja and Bamako
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for greater protection for people ca…
South Africans online are still laughing at their president after he struggled to put on a face mask during a televised address on Thursday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa fumbled while trying to put on his ankara fabric mask after announcin…
Over the last three years, the Africa Now Foundation has demonstrated consistency is supporting the Cameroonian refugees in Ogoja
The Africa Now Foundation is pleased to support hundreds of Cameroonian household refugees in Nigeria with…
The coronavirus pandemic has disturbed the rituals and traditions of the vast majority of Islam’s 1.8 billion adherents, who will abstain from food and water during daylight hours for the next 30 days.
In most countries, mosques are clo…
Two children in Vietnam have given 20,000 medical masks to the UK.
Nhan and Khoi, from the capital Hanoi, bought them with "lucky money" they had saved up over a few years.
The British Ambassador to Vietnam, Gareth Ward, wrote a lett…
Coronavirus - Sierra Leone: Returned Migrants in Sierra Leone Use Music and Ebola Experience to Combat COVID-19
The project works with returned migrants to share first-hand information about the trials and tribulations of irregular migr…