The European Union has blacklisted four African countries over money-laundering concerns as it says their financial transactions require further scrutiny. Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius and Zimbabwe were part of 12 countries placed on the EU’s blacklist. The other countries blacklisted are Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Cambodia, Mongolia and Myanmar. But …

  Source: Yahoo The novel coronavirus could kill between 83,000 and 190,000 people in Africa in the first year and infect between 29 million and 44 million in the first year if it is not contained, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The projections are contained in a …

  Life in China is now returning to normalcy since the outbreak of Coronavirus. With some schools slowly reopening after the long hiatus, one school in the city of Hangzhou have enforced social distancing by letting students wear DIY hats with 3-foot-long horizontal plumes. Duke University professor, Eileen Chengyin Chow …

Source: GNA The World Health Organisation (WHO), has stated that there is not enough evidence about the effectiveness of antibodies-mediated immunity to guarantee the accuracy of an “immunity passport” or “risk-free certificate,” for the COVID-19. It stated that as of April 24, 2020, no study had evaluated whether the presence of …

  Source: BBC More than 200,000 people worldwide have now died with the coronavirus, figures from Johns Hopkins University show. There are more than 2.8 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, according to the tally. It comes after the number of fatalities in the US passed 50,000, as Americans endure the …

  Source: bbc.com South Africa’s president has announced an easing of some lockdown restrictions – to begin next month. But Cyril Ramaphosa warned that most people should remain at home and also urged people to wear masks when outside. Yet at the end of his speech he struggled while demonstrating how …

South Africa’s president has announced an easing of some lockdown restrictions – to begin next month. But Cyril Ramaphosa warned that most people should remain at home and also urged people to wear masks when outside. Yet at the end of his speech he struggled while demonstrating how to put …

    Source: bbc.com The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against complacency in the fight against the coronavirus, saying the disease “will be with us for a long time”. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also warned of upward trends in COVID-19 cases in Africa, Eastern Europe, Central America …

Source: punchng.com The World Health Organisation says about 2.5 million cases and over 160,000 deaths related to the coronavirus have been recorded globally. “Globally, almost 2.5 million cases of COVID-19 have now been reported to WHO, and more than 160,000 deaths,” the organisation’s Director General, Tedros Gbebreyesus, said in his opening …

Source: GNA The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he is encouraged that several countries are now starting to plan how to ease social restrictions that restricted the movement of their citizens in the phase of COVID-19. He, however, has cautioned that the lifting of …

Source: Bloomberg The coronavirus pandemic could kill 300,000 people in Africa this year, even with assertive government measures to limit social interactions, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Overcrowded slums with no access to water coupled with fragile health-care systems make the continent especially vulnerable to the …

  Source: af.reuters.com South Africa’s Health Minister on Tuesday reported a rise in Coronavirus cases of 143 over the past day, taking the total to 2,415. Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize provided no update on the number of deaths, which a day earlier stood at 27. The total number of tests conducted so far …

Source: afrobarometer.org As COVID-19 gains a foothold on the continent, fears are growing that Africa’s fragile health-care systems and economies will provide little protection from the pandemic’s potential ravages. At the same time, trust in government institutions – one of the most critical resources needed to mount effective societal responses that …

Source: ewn.co.za The Chair of the African Union (AU), President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Dr Donald Kaberuka, Mr Tidjane Thiam and Mr Trevor Manuel as Special Envoys of the African Union to mobilise international support for Africa’s efforts to address the economic challenges African countries …

  Source: allafrica.com In the clearest indication yet that the two-week lockdown imposed on Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on March 29 to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic may be headed for extension, President Muhammadu Buhari, saturday, said the movement restrictions would last as long as …

  The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned as “racist” the comments by two French doctors who suggested a vaccine for the coronavirus could be tested in Africa. “Africa can’t and won’t be a testing ground for any vaccine,” said Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The …

  Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Niyi Adebayo yesterday said the federal government is currently engaging indigenous car manufacturers to tweak their operations and commence the manufacturing of made-in-Nigeria ventilators to boost the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. He also said the government is working with the Standards …

  The military in Mali says more than 20 soldiers have been killed by suspected jihadists in the northern region of Gao. People in the area said militants drove around their villages in cars and on motorbikes before attacking the army base at dawn on Monday. They said the insurgents …

  Confirmed coronavirus cases in Nigeria have increased to 238. This was after the country recorded six new cases on Monday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced this via its Twitter handle. Of the six new cases, the NCDC said two were recorded in Kwara State, two in Edo, …

  The United States has so far evacuated 38,296 citizens from Nigeria, Ghana, Benin Republic, and 75 other countries on account of the coronavirus pandemic. The citizens were airlifted in 330 flights coordinated by the US Department of State. The emergency evacuation commenced on January 29, 2020, according to the …

  The Niger State Government has relaxed the curfew imposed as part of measures to curb the spread of coronavirus disease in the state. The new curfew takes effect from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. beginning from April 5 as against the earlier order of 10 a.m. to 12 midnight. …

  Senegalese President Macky Sall has extended for 30 days the state of emergency introduced throughout the country in response to the new coronavirus, the state media reported. The state of emergency first announced by the head of state on 23 March is accompanied by a curfew from 8 p.m. …

  Global auditing firm McKinsey & Company’s is estimating that Africa would lose up to $200 billion in 2020 due to the current coronavirus pandemic. A paper put together by experts at the auditing firm said the pandemic will led to a cut of 3 to 8 percentage points to …

Nigeria plans to create a 500 billion naira ($1.39 billion) coronavirus fund to strengthen its healthcare infrastructure to tackle the virus, the government said on Saturday. Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed, House of Representatives speaker Femi Gbajabiamila and Senate President Ahmad Lawan agreed in a meeting that the crisis intervention fund …

  The police in Delta State have accused the 28-year-old man reportedly killed by a soldier in the Warri area of the state of disobeying the directives of the Nigerian Army. Joseph Pessu was said to have been shot at Ugbuwangue community in Warri South Local Government Area (LGA) of …

  A Spanish family including 11 children have been placed in strict isolation in their Valladolid home in northwest Spain after contracting COVID-19. Doctors have warned that the viral load of the family is so high that they must keep indoors for two weeks lest they cause a mass spread. …

  As cases of the Coronavirus pandemic continues to rise in Nigeria and other parts of the world, a development economist and governance expert, Dr Chiwuike Uba, has warned that the situation will continue to deteriorate if government does not apply stringent measures to tackle the pandemic head on. In …

  A total of 24 people who were earlier confirmed to be infected with Coronavirus have so far been treated and discharged discharged from the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Yaba Lagos after testing negative twice, the state Commissioner for Health said yesterday. Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this at …

  Alkali Musa, is 78, years old. He is no doubt the oldest man among the 680, repentant terrorists undergoing rehabilitation and de-radicalization at the Operation Safe Corridor rehabilitation camp at Malam Sidi, in Gombe state. He is a retired civil servant. During his years of service, he worked as …

  Former Republic of Congo president Jacques Joaquim Yhombi Opango died in France on Monday of the new coronavirus (Covid-19), his family told AFP. He was 81. Yhombi Opango, who led Congo-Brazzaville from 1977 until he was toppled in 1979, died at a Paris hospital, his son Jean-Jacques said. Yhombi …