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Sierra Leone coronavirus: President Quarantines After Guard Tests Positive

Sierra Leone president Julius Maada Bio is to undergo 14-day self-isolation after one of his bodyguards tested positive for COVID-19, reports...

BY Hussein Habibata
April 22, 2020
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Rwanda Orders Compulsory Wearing Of Masks In Public

Rwanda, through the Ministry of Health on Saturday, April 18, introduced an additional COVID-19 precautionary directive that urges citizens to wear face masks...

BY Hussein Habibata
April 19, 2020
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Africa: More Trouble For Kenyans In China As Restaurants Ordered...

Africans have become targets of suspicion, distrust and racism in China and now authorities have ordered bars and restaurants not to serve...

BY Hussein Habibata
April 13, 2020
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African Leaders Back WHO Head Against Trump Attacks

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is the latest African leader to defend the World Health Organization (WHO) and its head Dr...

BY Hussein Habibata
April 9, 2020
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SA Minister Suspended For Breaking Lockdown Rules

South Africa’s communications minister has been suspended for two months – one of which will be without pay – for...

BY Hussein Habibata
April 8, 2020
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Coronavirus: Africa Will Not Be Testing Ground For Vaccine, Says...

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned as “racist” the comments by two French doctors who suggested...

BY Hussein Habibata
April 6, 2020
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AU Sets Up Continental Fund To Combat Coronavirus

The African Union Bureau of Heads of State and Government has agreed to establish a continental anti-COVID-19 fund to which...

BY Hussein Habibata
April 2, 2020
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Africa Lead Story

Coronavirus: What The World Can Learn From Ebola Fight

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who made history as Africa’s first elected female president, led Liberia for 12 years including during the...

BY Hussein Habibata
March 30, 2020
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Coronavirus: South Africa Reports First Deaths As Lockdown Begins

South Africa has announced its first deaths from Coronavirus infection, and said cases there have passed the 1,000 mark. “This...

BY Hussein Habibata
March 27, 2020
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Hosni Mubarak: Former Egyptian President Dies Aged 91

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak – ousted by the military in 2011 – has died in Cairo at the age...

BY Hussein Habibata
February 25, 2020
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