Some 250,000 people have signed up in a single day to volunteer with the NHS after a recruitment drive to help the vulnerable amid the coronavirus crisis. The helpers are needed for deliveri... Read more
A stimulus package worth more than $1.8 trillion ((£1.5tn) has been agreed by US Senate leaders and the White House to ease the impact of coronavirus. It reportedly includes payments of $1,2... Read more
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has criticised the response of the Nigerian government and religious leaders to the coronavirus. Over the weekend some preachers in the West African country ignor... Read more
An appeals court in the French capital, Paris, is due to rule later on whether the Malian singer, Rokia Traoré, can be extradited to Belgium, where she has been ordered to hand over her five... Read more
A man in Rwanda who breached the ongoing lockdown to reportedly go fishing has been killed and eaten by a crocodile, the mayor of the southern Kamonyi district has told the BBC. Alice Kayite... Read more
Rihanna has donated $5 million in a bid to help relieve the coronavirus pandemic. The money will be distributed by her nonprofit organisation the Clara Lionel Foundation to various groups wh... Read more
A Policy Think Tank in Ghana Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation (ILAPI) has estimated that a lockdown will cost the country GHS15 billion. Ghana has recorded 53 cases of Covid-19 as... Read more
The African Department Director for International Monitory Fund (IMF) Abebe Aemro Selassie has confirmed that Ghana has put in a request for a rapid credit facility to help fight coronavirus... Read more
Sudan’s minister of defence, Lt-Gen Jamal Omar, has died of a heart attack in South Sudan, Reuters news agency reports, quoting a spokesman for the Sudanese army. Gen Omar is reported... Read more
German officials are trying to track down six million face masks ordered to protect health workers, which have gone missing from an airport in Kenya. Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine said the... Read more
Ghana Premier League side Kumasi King Faisal have officially completed the signing of former Hearts of Oak goalkeeper Samuel Akurugu. Akurugu, 24, joined the embattled King Faisal on a short... Read more
The president of Chad says 92 soldiers have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants. President Idriss Deby said the attack early on Monday was the deadliest yet in the five-year cam... Read more
Today March 25, 2020, has been declared National Day of Fasting and Prayers in Ghana against the spread of Coronavirus. All Ghanaians are expected to partake in this spiritual exercise insti... Read more
Mr. Emmanuel Olla Williaams, founder of the Schools Sanitation Inspection Tour has warned politicians in Ghana not to take advantage of the coroniavirus scare to their advantage by misinform... Read more
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