Opposition party claims it won the poll but election board says their candidate garnered 20 percent of the vote. Burundi will have a new president after the country’s election commission declared the governing party candidate Evariste Ndayishimiye the winner of the May 20 poll, a result disputed by the opposition. The electoral body, CENI, said Ndayishimiye, a former […]
Country moved into level three of a five-tier system, allowing reopening of economy under ‘strict health protocols’. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a further easing of coronavirus restrictions from next month in a move that will allow most sectors of the economy to reopen fully under “strict health protocols” and “social distancing rules”. […]
Government allowing some industries to reopen after lockdown plunged its struggling economy deeper into turmoil. South Africa has started to gradually loosen its strict coronavirus lockdown, allowing some industries to reopen after five weeks of restrictions that plunged its struggling economy deeper into turmoil. The economy of Africa’s most industrialised nation was already teetering when […]
PARIS (AFP) – Africa has now recorded more than 100,000 cases of coronavirus, according to an AFP tally drawn from official figures on Friday (May 22). Across the continent, a total of 100,002 cases had been registered as of 1100 GMT Friday, of which 3,095 were fatal. Countries in northern Africa have the highest death […]
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa on Sunday (May 17) reported 1,160 new coronavirus infections, the highest daily number since the first case was recorded in March, data released by the Health ministry showed. “As of today, the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa is 15,515 with 1,160 new cases identified in the […]
The defence ministry says the fighters were killed in southeast Niger and in neighbouring Nigeria. Approximately 75 members of the Boko Haram armed group have been killed in the southeast Sahel state of Niger and in neighbouring Nigeria. Twenty-five “terrorists” were killed on Monday south of Diffa, the main city in southeast Niger, while “about […]
Suspicion over official COVID-19 numbers grows as critics accuse gov’t of of failing to inform public on true extent. Arusha, Tanzania – Omari*, a motorcycle taxi driver, stopped outside a house in Arusha City, a tourist hub in northern Tanzania and pointed to a large, grey gate. “A person here died from COVID a few […]
At least eight others taken to hospitals following the blast in the economic capital, Bujumbura. At least two people were killed in a grenade blast in Burundi’s economic capital Bujumbura, just days ahead of a general election, witnesses said on Monday. The attack was blamed on “unidentified criminals” who targeted a bar in a working-class […]
Four soldiers also seriously wounded as convoy of Chadian peacekeepers on patrol hit explosive devices in the north. Three United Nations soldiers from Chad have been killed in Mali when their convoy hit a roadside bomb, according to officials. The blast in the northern region of Aguelhok left four more soldiers seriously wounded, the UN […]
Silvia Romano, who was seized by gunmen in November 2018, freed near Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. An Italian aid volunteer who was kidnapped in Kenya some 18 months ago has been freed, according to officials in Italy. Silvia Romano, who was working at an orphanage in Chakama village near Kenya’s southeast coast, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen […]