Covid-19: Canada’s outbreak slows as cases top 50,000, but long fight looms
A volunteer with the Red Cross shows a doorway between beds in a mobile hospital set up in partnership with…
Covid-19: ‘More than 1.5 billion people risk losing livelihoods’ – ILO
GENEVA, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — About half of all workers worldwide are in danger of having their livelihoods destroyed because…
Covid-19: Ukrainian businesses demand easing of anti-virus shutdown
Wearing surgical masks, demonstrators blocked traffic outside a government building in the city centre in defiance of rules against public…
Deportation of criminal with HIV to Zimbabwe blocked by UK Supreme Court – after 14 years legal battle
The Supreme Court building LONDON, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The deportation of a criminal to Zimbabwe has been stopped by…
Covid-19: US economy shrinks at fastest rate since 2008
WASHINGTON, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US economy suffered its most severe contraction in more than a decade in the…
Covid-19: Uganda bans lorry drivers from sleeping at hotels
Lorries have been queuing on the Kenya-Uganda border so drivers can be tested for COVID-19 KAMPALA, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) —…
Covid-19: Launch of Africa free trade deal postponed due to pandemic
ADDIS ABABA, April 30 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — The implementation of a mammoth African free trade agreement will not begin on July…
Cuban doctors deployment in South Africa received mixed reactions
More than 200 Cuban medics are to be deployed around the country PRETORIA, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The arrival of…
Rwanda’s internal security minister sacked; fifth member of cabinet to be fired in 2020
Gen Patrick Nyamvumba KIGALI, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Gen Patrick Nyamvumba, appointed Minister of Internal Security in November last year,…
Covid-19: Riot rocks coronavirus-hit prison in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN, April 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A riot has broken out at the central prison in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, with smoke…