Floods in Burkina Faso have left at least 13 people dead and 19 others injured following days of heavy rains across the country, including the capital, the government said on Wednesday. 5 billion CFA ($9.06 million) will be allocated by the finance ministry to help victims, said Abdoul Karim Sango, a government representative. Many people…
Security officers in the northwestern Kenya town of Kitale on Thursday arrested a poacher in possession of 14 kilograms of elephant tusks with a market value of 1.4 million shillings (about 14,000 U.S dollars). Local police commander Ayub Gitonga said the suspected poacher had been on the radar of security agencies amid a spike in…
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar has tested positive for COVID-19, the mayor said in a tweet on Thursday. Her rapid antigen test came positive while she claimed herself to be asymptomatic. “As I don’t have any symptoms, I have home quarantined myself as per the doctors’ advice,” the mayor said, appealing to people to take necessary…
Angolan authorities have agreed to reopen schools from October, after learning institutions in the country were closed to control the spread of COVID-19, Daily Nation has reported. Learning activities were cancelled in March after the country recorded the first case of the deadly coronavirus. According to the report, State Minister and Head of presidential palace Adão de…
Kenya has reported eight coronavirus-related deaths within the last 24 hours, raising the country’s death toll to 607, Health Chief Administrative Secretary Rashid Aman announced. The Health CAS also said that a total of 104 COVID-19 cases were recorded from 2,285 tests, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 35,460. 74 more…
The Ugandan Ministry of Health on Wednesday reported 201 new confirmed COVID-19 cases raising the total number of cases in the East African country to 4,101. Wednesday’s figures represent a new second-highest daily rise in COVID-19 cases. The previous figure was 176 reported last Thursday. The highest number remains the 318 cases reported last month….
The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) ferried 19,502 people and 421,745 tons of cargo between Kenya’s capital Nairobi and the coastal city of Mombasa in July following the resumption of passenger services after a hiatus occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, new data released on Tuesday showed. The passenger train service resumed operations on July 13 after…
The National Center for Disease Control of Libya on Wednesday reported 879 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country so far to 20,462. The center said in a statement that 82 patients have newly recovered and 10 more died, bringing the total recoveries to 2,329 and the death toll to 324….
Nigerian resident doctors began their second strike of the year over pay and working conditions amid the spread of the new coronavirus, the doctors’ union told Reuters on Tuesday. The strike began on Monday and includes 16,000 resident doctors out of a total of 42,000 doctors in the country, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba, President of the…
Uganda’s Ministry of Health dismissed reports by some local media outlets which claimed it admitted to lapses in COVID-19 test results being released by laboratories it has accredited. According to the reports, the ministry said some people claimed to have received two different result slips, one indicating positive and the other negative, yet others claimed…
