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
“The night Cyril Ramaphosa became a wartime president” is how South Africa’s leading News24 website described the president’s decision on Monday night to impose a nationwide l... Read more
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria has risen to 40. This is after four more people tested positive, three in Lagos and one in the capital, Abuja. The National Centre for... Read more
The government of Mauritius has imposed a total lockdown in the tourist hotspot to curb the spread of coronavirus. The island nation, which has a population of 1.2m, has reported two deaths... Read more
I reached the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport’s health port on Monday at around 15:30 GMT. I queued to have my temperature checked. It was around 37.7 degrees Celsius – which... Read more
Public transport has been suspended in Morocco to curb the spread of coronavirus. The government has taken drastic measures to tackle the pandemic as the number of people who have contracted... Read more
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