Angola: Third batch of Chad cattle arrives

LUANDA, April 20 (NNN-ANGOP) — The third batch of 1,167 cattle from Chad as part of an Angolan government project to relaunch livestock in the country and diversify its economy arrived Sunday in Luanda. The cattle were received at Luanda Port, during a ceremony witnessed by the minister of State…

Update: Europe plans slow reopening, New York passes peak in virus battle

PARIS/NEW YORK, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hard-hit European nations began preparing for a slow reopening and the US epicenter New York reported headway Sunday in their battle against the deadly pandemic. Governments across the world are now debating how and when to ease lockdowns that have kept more than half…

Nigeria: Bandits kill 47 people in north – police

KANO (Nigeria), April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Bandits killed 47 people in coordinated attacks against several farming villages in Katsina State, northern Nigeria, the president’s office and local police said. Men on motorbikes carried out “organised and simultaneous attacks”, on the villages, Katsina state police spokesman Gambo Isah said in a…

Covid-19: More than 100,000 infections in Latin America – tally

MONTEVIDEO, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The number of coronavirus infections across Latin America surpassed 100,000 on Sunday with nearly 5,000 deaths, according to official figures reported by individual countries. Brazil, with a population of 210 million, has the most cases — 38,654 infections and 2,462 deaths — although experts believe…

Covid-19: Spanish PM promises to ease confinement of children

MADRID, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Spanish children have been kept at home since March 14, under strict measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Now Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez aims to relax the rule on April 27 so they can “get some fresh air”. Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, who has…

Covid-19: US landlords demanding sex in exchange for rent – Report

WASHINGTON, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Amid the coronavirus pandemic, landlords in the US are reportedly asking their tenants for sex in exchange for rent. Reports say advocates claim they have seen a spike in reports of landlords soliciting sex in exchange for rent from vulnerable tenants. According to reports, US…

Gunman kills 16 in Nova Scotia in Canada’s worst mass shooting

Shooting suspect, Gabriel Wortman, may have been dressed in police uniform HALIFAX, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A man disguised as a police officer went on a 12-hour shooting rampage in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Sunday, killing 16 people, in the worst such attack in the country for…

Covid-19: New York couples can now tie the knot over videolinks – Gov Cuomo

State Governor, Andrew Cuomo NEW YORK, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed an order allowing online marriages, as many weddings are cancelled under lockdown restrictions.From now on, people in the US state will be able to apply for marriage licences remotely and clerks allowed to…

Update Covid-19: US death toll tops 40,000

An employee prepares a take away order at a fast food restaurant WASHINGTON, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The virus has now killed more than 40,000 people in the US – nearly a quarter of all deaths from Covid-19 across the globe, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. There was…

Covid-19: Fake mourners arrested for flouting Kenyan travel ban

NAIROBI, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police in Kenya implementing coronavirus restrictions have arrested four people who disguised themselves as mourners taking a body for burial. They had left the capital, Nairobi, and travelled 370km west with an empty coffin in the vehicle before being intercepted, Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said.…