The COVID-19 pandemic caused multiple shocks to businesses in Zimbabwe, with close to 90 percent of formal businesses suspending operations for about seven weeks on average since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country in March, according to a survey by the World Bank (WB). The impact is largest among micro and small firms…
Ten civilians and a soldier were killed overnight in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in an attack blamed on rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a local official said Monday. The attack occurred in an area of North Kivu province near neighboring Uganda dubbed the “Triangle of Death” where the ADF has killed…
Kenya on Monday confirmed 98 new cases of COVID-19 from 1644 samples tested in the last 24 hours, bringing to 37, 079 the number of confirmed positive infections. So far Kenya has tested 518,350 samples since March. In a statement to the press, Health Ministry CAS Dr. Rashid Aman said from the cases all are…
Two security guards have been arrested as police commenced investigations into a fire that gutted Makerere University Main Building yesterday. The director of the Criminal Investigations Directorate, Grace Akullo, yesterday camped at the country’s oldest university as her team tried to establish what could have caused a fire at the building that houses the institution’s…
Egypt registered on Saturday night 128 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total infections in the country to 101,900, said its Health Ministry. In a statement, the ministry’s spokesman Khaled Megahed said 17 patients died from the disease in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 5,750. Meanwhile, 708 others were cured and discharged…
Some 3,000 workers from the country’s tourism sector have already returned to work after months of hiatus due to COVID-19, Mozambique’s national radio station RM reported on Sunday. Mozambican Minister of Culture and Tourism, Eldevina Materrula told the radio that this is part of the government’s efforts to resume economic activities in a phased way…
Egypt’s antiquities ministry announced Sunday the discovery of 14 coffins in the Saqqara area that had lain buried for two and a half thousand years. The tombs were found two days ago during an archaeological dig, and follow 13 wooden sarcophagus discovered in the same burial spot last week, the ministry said in a statement….
The Kenya Ministry of Health has announced 152 new cases of the novel coronavirus, tested in the country between Saturday and Sunday. In a statement sent out to the media, the Health Ministry said 13 of the patients are foreigners while the rest are Kenyans. The new cases are from a sample of 2,224 tests…
Zimbabwe is stepping up efforts to combat illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances (ODSs), a senior environment official said Wednesday. Zimbabwe had not been spared from the smuggling schemes to move banned ODSs and contaminated refrigerants across the borders, said Zimbabwean Environment Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu. “My Ministry is working with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority to train…
Egypt reported 160 new COVID-19 infections late on Wednesday, bringing the total cases registered in the country to 101,500. Meanwhile, 17 patients died from the novel coronavirus on the same day, raising the death toll to 5,696, while 804 others were cured and discharged from hospitals, increasing the total recoveries to 86,549, the health ministry’s…
