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
Hundreds of healthcare professionals in Zimbabwe are refusing to work because they say they don’t have the equipment needed to protect themselves against catching coronavirus. The Secr... 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
An attempt by aides to Nigeria’s president to reassure Nigerians that Muhammadu Buhari is well and still at work has backfired. Earlier this week the presidency said Mr Buhari had tested neg... Read more
Police and army patrols in South Africa began at midnight as the lockdown came into effect and continued throughout the course of the day in the townships and suburbs to enforce the new regu... Read more
Employees at a Tunisian factory are churning out 50,000 face masks a day and other protective medical gear after opting to go into lockdown at work. The 150 workers, mainly women, have isola... Read more
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced a 14-day ban on public transport to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In a televised address on Wednesday, Mr Museveni said the ban would t... Read more
Kenya has banned the importation of second-hand clothes, popularly known as “mitumba”, as a way of limiting the spread of coronarivus. “Importation of used clothes is suspended w... Read more
India has announced a $22bn (£19bn) bailout for the country’s poor to help counter the economic effects of the Covid-19 outbreak. “We don’t want anyone to remain hungry, and we don’t want an... 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
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
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
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
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