South Africa reports first coronavirus deaths as ‘unprecedented’ lockdown begins
Issued on: 27/03/2020 – 10:03Modified: 27/03/2020 – 10:04 South Africa on Friday reported its first COVID-19 deaths, just as the…
Coronavirus: France 24 speaks to Africa’s leading virologist
Issued on: 26/03/2020 – 21:49 There are now over 3,000 cases of the coronavirus across Africa. Forty-six of the continent’s…
Malian opposition leader kidnapped ahead of general elections
Issued on: 26/03/2020 – 16:13Modified: 26/03/2020 – 16:13 Mali’s government said on Thursday that leading opposition figure Soumaila Cisse had…
Mali on lockdown as first coronavirus cases reported
Issued on: 26/03/2020 – 01:32Modified: 26/03/2020 – 01:32 Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced a nationwide night-time curfew on Wednesday…
Coronavirus cases quickly rising across Africa
Issued on: 25/03/2020 – 22:24 There are now more than 2,400 confirmed cases of the coronavirus across Africa, and there…
South Africa prepares to go into lockdown as coronavirus cases top 700
Issued on: 25/03/2020 – 11:22Modified: 25/03/2020 – 11:22 South Africa’s coronavirus cases jumped again to 709, the health minister said…
DR Congo president imposes state of emergency to contain coronavirus outbreak
Issued on: 25/03/2020 – 09:17Modified: 25/03/2020 – 09:17 The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo closed the country’s borders…
Boko Haram kills almost 100 soldiers in a seven-hour attack in Chad
Issued on: 25/03/2020 – 02:17 Boko Haram jihadists have killed nearly 100 Chadian soldiers in a seven-hour attack on an…
Coronavirus: Africa mourns Manu Dibango
Issued on: 24/03/2020 – 22:02 Afro-jazz legend Manu Dibango passed away in a Parisian hospital after contracting Covid-19 at the…
Scores of Nigerian soldiers killed in jihadist ambush, security sources say
Issued on: 24/03/2020 – 12:06Modified: 24/03/2020 – 12:08 At least 70 Nigerian soldiers were killed in a jihadist ambush, military…
Coronavirus: South Africa announces three-week lockdown
Issued on: 24/03/2020 – 12:15Modified: 24/03/2020 – 12:17 Authorities across Africa are bracing for the coronavirus pandemic to hit home.…
curfews in Senegal and Ivory Coast, lockdown in South Africa
Issued on: 24/03/2020 – 02:00 South Africa’s president on Monday said he was deploying the military onto the streets to…
Violence flares in Guinea as voters cast ballots in contentious referendum
Issued on: 22/03/2020 – 15:49Modified: 22/03/2020 – 15:49 Voters in the West African state of Guinea began casting their ballots…
As coronovirus spreads in Africa, number of cases exceeds 1,000
Issued on: 21/03/2020 – 17:10Modified: 21/03/2020 – 17:10 Africa’s cases of the coronavirus rose above 1,000 on Saturday while two…
Tunisia orders general lockdown in bid to contain coronavirus
Issued on: 20/03/2020 – 17:50Modified: 20/03/2020 – 17:50 Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday ordered a general lockdown, restricting public…
How are African nations coping with the continuing spread of coronavirus?
Issued on: 19/03/2020 – 23:25Modified: 19/03/2020 – 23:25 As the World Health Organization warns of an extremely “rapid evolution” of…
Exclusive report: Investigating massacres in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region
Issued on: 20/03/2020 – 16:46Modified: 20/03/2020 – 16:51 Since 2003, the Sudanese region of Darfur has been ravaged by a…
Coronavirus: WHO tells African countries to ‘prepare for the worst’
Issued on: 18/03/2020 – 23:24 The head of the World Health Organization has sounded the alarm over Africa’s preparedness for…
Dozens of Malian soldiers killed in suspected jihadist attack
Issued on: 20/03/2020 – 00:26Modified: 20/03/2020 – 00:26 Suspected Islamist militants killed 29 Malian soldiers on Thursday in an attack…
Four years after Ebola crisis, Liberia braces for coronavirus
Issued on: 17/03/2020 – 22:37 Governments across Africa are scrambling to increase their capacity to deal with an expected surge…