Egypt To Bring Home Over 16,000 Nationals Stranded Abroad Amid COVID-19: PM

CAIRO, May 14 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly, said that, the authorities will bring home more than 16,000 nationals stranded abroad, in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. The flights, quarantine and the medical tests from May 3 to May 9, cost the government 28 million Egyptian pounds…

Sudan declines partial agreement with Ethiopia on Renaissance Dam

KHARTOUM, May 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sudan has declined an Ethiopian proposal to conclude a partial agreement without Egypt, to launch the first filling process of the Renaissance Dam in next July. Last February Sudan did not initial a draft agreement prepared by the US Treasury in Washington saying any deal…

Covid-19: No country, organisation can stop Madagascar’s COVID-Organics – President

Madagascar’s President, Andry Rajoelina ANTANANARIVO, May 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina defended his promotion of a controversial homegrown remedy for Covid-19 despite an absence of clinical trials. “It works really well,” he said of the herbal drink COVID-Organics. Rajoelina claimed that if a European country had discovered the remedy,…

Covid-19: Lesotho becomes last African nation to record coronavirus

Lesotho was in lockdown during April MASERU, May 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Lesotho has confirmed its first case of coronavirus – becoming the last country in Africa to record the virus. The mountain kingdom is completely surrounded by South Africa, which has 11,350 cases of Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by…

Nigeria’s president appoints ex-UN diplomat chief of staff

New chief of staff, Ibrahim Gambari ABUJA, May 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Ibrahim Gambari as his new chief of staff, secretary to the government said.Gambari was Nigeria’s minister for external affairs during Buhari’s military regime from 1984 to 1985 and later became an under-secretary-general at the…

Uganda: Court allows lawyers to see LGBT+ jailed over coronavirus

KAMPALA, May 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Ugandan court granted lawyers access to 19 LGBT+ people detained for more than six weeks with no legal help after they were charged with risking the spread of the coronavirus. The 13 gay men, two bisexual men and four transgender women were arrested on…

Niger says 75 ‘Boko Haram terrorists’ killed

A vehicle allegedly belonging to the Islamic State group in West Africa (ISWAP)  NIAMEY, May 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Sahel state of Niger, whichhas been battling a bloody insurgency, said 75 Boko Haram combatants had been killed in the southeast and in neighbouring Nigeria. Twenty-five were killed on Monday south…

Nigeria: 15 villagers killed by gunmen in farmers-herders conflict in northern state

KANO (Nigeria), May 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Gunmen have attacked a farming village in northern Nigeria, killing 15 people, police said, in the latest violence between farmers and herders in the area. The assailants stormed the village of Gonar Rogo in Kaduna state earlyTuesday as residents were asleep. “The attackers started…

Togo reports an outbreak of African swine fever

LOME, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Togo reported an outbreak of African swine fever in a farm northwest of the capital Lome, where 44 pigs have died of the disease since April 18. “Analyses at the Lome central veterinary laboratory have confirmed the presence of the African swine fever virus in…

Covid-19: Two hotels demolished in Nigeria ‘for breach of lockdown rules’

It is not clear if there were guests staying at Edemete Hotel  ABUJA, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) —The authorities in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern Rivers state have demolished two hotels over an alleged breach of lockdown rules intended to contain the spread of coronavirus. State Governor Nyesom Wike, who supervised the tearing down of…
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