Covid-19: Two-day-old baby dies in South Africa – believed youngest in the world
PRETORIA, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 2-day-old premature baby in South Africa has died from COVID-19, the government announced. The…
South Sudan: Aid workers among 300 killed in inter-communal clashes
Health workers are still searching for more bodies in bushes JUBA, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The authorities in South Sudan…
Zimbabwe minister sacked after remarks on MP’s abduction
Energy Mutodi HARARE, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Zimbabwe’s deputy information minister has been fired, hours after dismissing the abduction of…
Mozambique: Key port destroyed by militants reopens
Mocimboa da Praia, home to many fishermen, has been attacked several times MAPUTO, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Mozambican government…
Covid-19: Lagos doctors end strike after curfew harassment complaint remedied
A view of a crowded street with human and vehicular traffic in Mafoluku district in Lagos LAGOS, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES)…
Covid-19: Infections top 5 million worldwide
PARIS, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Global infections from the novelcoronavirus passed five million as the pandemic played outunevenly across the…
Covid-19: UK healthcare workers begin hydroxychloroquine trial
LONDON, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — British healthcare workers on Thursday begin taking part in a University of Oxford-led international trial…
World Bank approves record $500 million to battle locust swarms in Africa
NAIROBI, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Bank approved a record $500 million in grants and low-interest loans to help…
Migrants and those without ID face hunger in South Africa
PRETORIA, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South Africa has marshalled huge resources towards preventing its poor from starving because of COVID-19,…
Burundi voting ends in calm despite fraud allegation
BUJUMBURA, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Voting in Burundi’s presidential election passed calmly on Wednesday despite simmering political violence, the coronavirus…