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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has risen to more than 10 000 and caused more than 500 deaths. While the virus was slow to reach the continent compared to other parts of the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved the disbursement of $21.13 million to Sierra Leone amid coronavirus economic crisis."This disbursement underscores the Fund’s ongoing commitment to help the country tackle any potential...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, making an opening remark at a meeting between the Leadership of the National Assembly and the Finance Ministry on Tuesday in Abuja.Minister of Finance, Zainab...

The chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has written a moving letter to Africans on the 26th commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.Under the theme "remember-unite-review",...

Ethiopia has recorded eight new coronavirus cases, including a 9-month-old infant, Health Minister Dr. Lia Tadesse announced on Tuesday.The eight new cases were recorded from 264 laboratory tests conducted in the past...

More than 1200 people died from coronavirus in the United States in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to nearly 11,000 as of Tuesday morning, according to statistics site Worldometers.As...

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa is visiting the Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation COVID-19 Command Center at Rand Water in Johannesburg, where he will be briefed on the operations of the center in response to...

Africa has recorded at least 73 new COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the latest data from the Africa Center for Disease Control (CDC). At least 64 of the new fatalities came...

The Director General of the World Health Organization Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday condemned racist remarks by some French scientists that the coronavirus vaccine should first be tested on a bunch of Africans to know...

Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua has waded again into the controversies surrounding the dramatic spread of COVID-19 and the extreme measures implemented by leaders worldwide to contain it. “World leaders and scientists know what...