Coronavirus: ECOWAS budgets $398 million to revive ailing economies, electoral reforms
Since the beginning of 2021 and as a follow-up of the events of last year, the food security situation in Western Africa is a mixed...
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Malian police disperse protest against French military presence
Malian security forces used tear gas on Wednesday to disperse an unsanctioned protest in the capital Bamako against France’s military presence in the country, one...
Global stocks waver as coronavirus fears trump recovery hopes
Global stock markets wavered on Monday as soaring COVID-19 cases offset investor hopes of a quick economic recovery, even after data showing that the Chinese...
Coronavirus: NANTA gets 4.9 percent share of N5 billion funds, warns against further lockdown
The National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA) has received about N196 million out of N5bn given to the aviation industry as Covid-19 Palliative to...
Zimbabwe bans traditional funerals after spike in coronavirus cases
Zimbabwe has banned families from transporting their dead relatives between cities, a custom where families take the dead to their areas of birth for burial...
Senegal reports H5N1 bird flu outbreak on poultry farm
The outbreak in the Thies region has killed 58,000 birds, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said. Senegal has reported an outbreak of the...
WHO: Coronavirus cases in Africa near three million
World Health Organization The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, has said there are over 2.9 million confirmed COVID-19 cases...
South Africa blasts tourists for defying coronavirus beach ban
South Africa’s Police Minister Bheki Cele has accused mostly European tourists of defying a ban on going to beaches along the famous Garden Route. The...
Africa’s second coronavirus wave ‘more aggressive’
The second wave of coronavirus hitting Africa is “more aggressive” than the first, according to the head of the African Centres for Disease Control (CDC),...
Coronavirus: Five countries block flights from South Africa
Five countries on Monday announced that they have banned flights from South Africa following the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus. South African...