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 has reopened the strategic port of Mocimboa da Praia in the oil-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado, two months after it was destroyed by militants.The closure of the port had…

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) — Nigeria’s largest medical union ordered its members in the commercial capital Lagos to go back to work, ending a strike over alleged police harassment of doctors as they travelled…

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 planet, with China eager to declare a victory,Europe tentatively emerging from its shell and deaths still rising inhotspots in Latin America. The grim milestone comes after known cases of COVID-19…

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 of two anti-malarial drugs to see if they can prevent COVID-19, including one US President Donald Trump says he has been taking. The ‘COPCOV’ study will involve more than 40,000…

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 countries in Africa and the Middle East fight swarms of desert locusts that are eating their way across vast swaths of crops and rangelands. Four of the hardest-hit countries –…

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, but undocumented citizens and stranded migrants face hunger as they slip through the net, aid workers say. Some 11,000 families waited for charity food parcels on Wednesday in a queue…

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 pandemic and the opposition accusing the authorities of fraud.In what could be the first competitive presidential election in Burundi since a civil war erupted in 1993, the ruling CNDD-FDD party’s…

Covid-19: South Sudan’s VP Riek Machar in self-isolation after testing positive

JUBA, May 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Vice-President of South Sudan, Riek Machar, who was part of a task force to fight coronavirus, is in self-isolation after testing positive for Covid-19. Machar said as several other members of the task force were infected a new team was taking over their work.…

Mali: 20 dead in road accident, 11 seriously injured

BAMAKO, May 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Twenty people have been killed and 11 seriously injured after a minibus and a lorry collided in the south of Mali, the country’s transport ministry said on Wednesday. The accident occurred on Tuesday at 8 pm on a major road linking the capital Bamako with…

Covid-19 deaths top 325,000 worldwide

PARIS, May 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 325,000 people worldwide have died from the novel coronavirus, three-quarters of them in Europe and the United States, since it broke out in China in December. The virus has killed 325,232 people in 196 countries and infected 4,943,050, according to the tally based…
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