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Namibia’s GDP contracts by 1.1% in 2019
By Agencies
Namibia’s economy contracted by 1.1% in 2019 compared to growth of 0.7 percent in 2018, as the...
When hopes of presidential hopefuls are dashed: Benin, DRC, Egypt, Rwanda…
Daniel Mumbere
Presidential elections in Africa and indeed world over are often fiercely contested, with political parties executing several...
Russia says it, Haftar agree political settlement is only option for...
by Maria Tsvetkova
Russia’s defense minister Sergei Shoigu and Libya’s eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar met and...
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Athletics: Kenya bars athletes from global travel over coronavirus worries
Omar Mohammed
Kenya’s athletics authority said on Thursday it had barred its athletes from traveling to international events due...
Two female MMA fighters suspended over brutal bout
By Agencies
Mixed Martial Arts fighters Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Weili Zhang have both been handed two-month medical suspension after...
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COVID 19: Smokers risk fatal complications, Group warns
As Nigeria battles to contain the raging COVID 19 pandemic, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), has warned that...
COVID 19: Smokers risk fatal complications, Group warns
As Nigeria battles to contain the raging COVID 19 pandemic, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), has warned that smokers are at higher risk of developing fatal complications from...
South Africa plans to move shack dwellers over virus fears
By Agencies
The South African government says it will relocate people living in temporary shelters amid fears that an outbreak of Covid-19 would prove uncontrollable in overpopulated shanty towns.
Namibia’s GDP contracts by 1.1% in 2019
By Agencies
Namibia’s economy contracted by 1.1% in 2019 compared to growth of 0.7 percent in 2018, as the worst drought in a century took its toll, the central...
Minister: President Buhari not coughing, not on ventilator
By Agencies
The Federal Government on Thursday debunked the rumour that President Muhammadu Buhari `has been coughing and now on ventilator”.
The Minister of Information and...
Coronavirus: South Africa tally hits 927, Kenya records first death
By Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban with DANIEL MUMBERE
The coronavirus was confirmed in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019. Cases have since been confirmed in over...
Uganda temporarily bans public transport
By Agencies
ALERT:Coronavirus pandemic emergency kit — facts, myths and how to protect yourself
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced a 14-day ban on public...
IATA says Middle East airlines need state aid due to liquidity crisis
by Yousef Saba
Governments must urgently consider providing aid to airlines in the Middle East to help them cope with a liquidity crisis due the coronavirus outbreak,...
Africa talks tough against coronavirus but many wonder why
Cooper Inveen
Shoppers threaded their way between stalls hawking everything from watches to pigs’ feet in Sierra Leone’s capital on Wednesday, two days after the government banned large gatherings...
Virus-Free Sierra Leone records COVID-19 scuffles over quarantine at airport
By Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban
The Freetown International Airport, Sierra Leone’s main entry point via air witnessed a coronavirus related scuffle after passengers aboard a Kenya Airways flight refused...
Rwanda suspends flights as coronavirus cases rise
Rwanda has suspended all passenger flights in and out of the country after detecting three new cases of coronavirus, bringing the number to 11.
The suspension would be effective...
Cameroonian music maestro tests positive for coronavirus
By Agencies
Famous Cameroonian musician Emmanuel N’Djoke Dibango, popularly known as Manu Dibango, announced Wednesday that he tested positive for the new coronavirus.
The 86-year-old jazz...
Surging dollar sends emerging currency index to lowest in more than three years
The stampede into dollars pushed MSCI’s Emerging Markets Currency Index .MIEM00000CUS to its lowest level in more than three years on Thursday and set it on course for its worst week since...
Africa talks tough against coronavirus but many wonder why
By Agencies
Shoppers threaded their way between stalls hawking everything from watches to pigs’ feet in Sierra Leone’s capital on Wednesday, two days after the government banned large gatherings...
WHO head tells Africa to ‘wake up’ to coronavirus threat
Africa must "wake up" to the coronavirus threat and prepare for the worst, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
The continent should learn from how...
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COVID 19: Smokers risk fatal complications, Group warns
As Nigeria battles to contain the raging COVID 19 pandemic, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), has warned that...