The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa on Tuesday stood at 1,584,484 with 38,597 deaths, according to the latest data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The continent has recently seen a decline in its number of new infections, though some countries report seesaw numbers in their daily numbers. South Africa…
The United Nations Secretary General has urged the world to take lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen disaster risk governance in order to build a safer, more resilient world. Antonio Guterres made the remarks on Tuesday as the world marked the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. “The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention…
Zambia has so far sprayed about 10,000 hectares of land as part of efforts to control the African Migratory Locusts which have broken out in some provinces, a senior government official said on Tuesday. Michael Katambo, Minister of Agriculture said the chemicals being sprayed have proved to be effective and shown to reduce the locust…
Kenya reported its first COVID-19 case on March 13. Since then, the East African country has reported more than 41,000 infections and is one of only nine countries on the continent to have surpassed the 40,000 mark. In efforts to curb the spread of the virus, the Kenyan government imposed various measures and restrictions, with…
Egypt confirmed late on Sunday 129 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total cases registered in the country since the outbreak of the pandemic to 104,516, said the Egyptian Health Ministry. Meanwhile, 12 patients died from the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 6,052, while 45 others completely recovered, increasing…
Africa is the only region where COVID-19 cases are not increasing, according to the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom. Tedros made the remarks in his speech on Monday at the Financial Times Africa Summit. “One of the few encouraging trends is in Africa, which has been less affected than other regions and is now…
The number of COVID-19 cases in Africa as of Monday stood at 1,577,644 with 38,396 deaths, according to data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest figures come even as the World Health Organization noted that the continent was the only region globally that was not seeing an increase in its…
Local communities living near Mount Kilimanjaro are working hard to put a fire currently burning on Africa’s highest peak. Both the Kilimanjaro National Park and the Tanzanian National Parks service confirmed the fire broke out late Sunday afternoon. Tanzania’s park’s service posted a blurry photograph on its Twitter account of what appeared to be Mount…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Sunday that a total of 390 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast in the past 48 hours. “In the past 48 hours, 390 migrants, among them women and children, have been intercepted and returned to Libya,” IOM Libya tweeted. “While our teams are present at disembarkation…
The presidents of four countries conferred by video on Wednesday over security in the African Great Lakes region, where armed groups pose a chronic threat, DR Congo said. The twice-postponed talks gathered the heads of Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, the Congolese president’s office said. Burundi did not take part. “The aim…
