Every Tuesday, Alemondji market in northern Togo swarms with people. Amid the throng, Burkinabe and Ghanaian traders offer clothes and kitchen utensils for sale. Others, calling out their wares, come from the nearby towns of…
Download logoThe Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, has established COVID-19 Teams for the Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Higher Education and Training respectively. These distinct teams…
Download logoThe President submitted for testing as a precautionary measure upon the advice of his physicians on Tuesday 24th March 2020 and received his results last night. As Head of State and Chair of the…
Download logoThe SA Post Office (SAPO) retail branches nationwide will stay open as normal during the 21-day nationwide lockdown so as to facilitate the payments of SASSA social grants. In response to the ongoing COVID-19…
Download logoFollowing the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Global Public Health Emergency on 30th January, 2020. The outbreak was then upgraded to a pandemic…
Download logoWe have received the sad news of the first patient who had tested positive for Coronavirus. The 66year old male Kenyan citizen who passed on this afternoon been admitted at the Aghakhan Hospital Intensive…
The video below is copyright free and can be used at will, without asking for authorization < p style=”margin-bottom:10px”>Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/vDqf6dgq7tA As part of government's commitment to prevent Sierra Leoneans from COVID-19, the Minister…
Download logoThe Federal Government announces plans to ban inter-state travel and possibly close down all motor parks as part of measures to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus, Information Minister, Lai Mohammed discloses the plans…
After launching Euronews on its platforms in November, the MultiChoice Group has just launched Africanews (www.Africanews.com) – part of the Euronews group. The channel is available on DStv and GOtv and offers millions of households across…
African governments set to see decline in revenues; Exploration projects put on hold; Thousands of local jobs at risk if nothing is done. While the short-term effects of Covid-19 on world economies are already being…
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Total of 1808 confirmed COVID19 cases in WHO Africa Region. Within the past 24 hours, there have been 216 new confirmed cases across 15 countries in the Region, with 2 new countries reporting cases GuineaBissau…
Download logoAs nationwide school closures disrupt education for more than 80 per cent of students worldwide, UNICEF today announced it will significantly scale up support in all countries to help children continue their learning while…
Download logoGiven the evolving nature of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) (www.CorporateCouncilOnAfrica.com) and the Government of Morocco have jointly decided to postpone the 13th U.S.-Africa Business Summit previously scheduled to…
Download logoThe U.S. Embassy in Accra will be closed to the public for a minimum of two weeks effective Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. until at least Wednesday, April 8, 2020. This period…
Download logoThe UAE Government has this afternoon handed over 11tons of medical supplies to the Seychelles Government, as a humanitarian aid to help contain and mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the country. …
Download logoThis is a global crisis affecting the whole world. Africa, however, will be hit harder with a heavy and durable economic toll, which will threaten progress and prospects, widen inequalities between and within countries,…
#COVIDー19 UPDATE. Situation Update, Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in Ghana as at 26 March 2020, 10:00 GMT. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health, Ghana. Media filesDownload logo
Download logo Today, the Ministry of Health, Somalia confirms the second case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Mogadishu. This is also a Somali citizen Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health, Somalia.
Download logoThe Jack Ma Foundation (www.JackMaFoundation.org.cn) and Alibaba Foundation are sharing key lessons and experience from doctors and other medical administrators and staff at the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (FAHZU), who…