Rwanda’s courts have started to conduct trials through video link-up in an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus. In a room at Kigali metropolitan police station suspects sat sep... Read more

Botswana’s 57 MPs will be put in mandatory quarantine for 14 days after a parliamentary nurse tested positive for Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus. The order to... Read more

The chief of staff to the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo was arrested on Wednesday in the capital, Kinshasa, after hours of questioning into the alleged misappropriation of fu... Read more

A woman undergoing treatment for coronavirus in an isolation ward in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, gave birth to a baby girl over the weekend, a doctor at the hospital has told the BBC.... Read more

Moroccans who venture outside their homes without wearing face masks risk prison sentences of up to three months and a fine of up to 1,300 dirhams ($126; £102), the government has said. The... Read more

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has, for now, ruled out a total lockdown for the country saying it would leave people with no food. But he said it would be the last resort if Kenyans... Read more

Kenya’s government is enforcing new containment measures in the capital, Nairobi, which include a travel ban in and out of the city in order to prevent the spread of the virus to other... Read more

Ugandan police have said there is a rise in domestic violence cases since the country begun a two-week lockdown. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga said four suspects had been arrested in conne... Read more

Five Rwandan soldiers have been arrested after residents of a slum in the capital, Kigali, alleged that they raped women as they enforced a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid... Read more

A policeman and security guard shot a man dead during the coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, South African police are quoted as saying to Reuters news agency. Police officers found men drinking... Read more

Cooped up in an isolation ward, a young Zimbabwean man who had been diagnosed with Covid-19, pleaded with his family for help. Thirty-year-old Zororo Makamba was “alone and scared... Read more