Covid-19: Black African deaths three times higher than white Britons – study

LONDON, May 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Coronavirus patients from black African backgrounds in England and Wales are dying at more than triple the rate of white Britons, a study suggests. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said a higher proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds live in areas hit harder…

Covid-19: Ghana seeks more funds from the World Bank to fight pandemic – Pres Akufo-Addo

Akufo-Addo, Prez Ghana ACCRA, May 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Nana Addo Danwa Akufo-Addo said discussions are ongoing between Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta and officials of the World Bank to raise more funds to deal with the effect of the COVID-19 on the local economy. Speaking during the May Day…

Covid-19: UN launches aid flights to vulnerable developing nations

Workers loading medical supplies in a cargo aircraft chartered by the U.N. World Food Programme to help developing countries hit by COVID-19 LIEGE (Belgium), May 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN World Food Program on Thursday sent a first plane loaded with medical supplies for developing nations especially vulnerable to the coronavirus…

WHO urges gradual easing of COVID-19 measures in Africa to avert new infections

Most countries on the continent have put in place restrictions to prevent the spread of the virus NAIROBI, May 1 (NNN-Xinhua) — The World Health Organization (WHO) urged African countries to carry out gradual easing of anti-COVID-19 measures to avert new infections in the continent. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director…

Covid-19: IMF approves emergency virus loans for Mali, Ethiopia

WASHINGTON, May 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The IMF approved loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars for Mali and Ethiopia to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The Washington-based crisis lender has stepped up its global financing efforts in recent weeks to help countries weather the coronavirus crisis. The IMF board granted $411…

Covid-19: Experts reveal African trial details

Experts said there are comparatively fewer trials happening in Africa ABUJA, May 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has outlined some of the trials going on for Covid-19 treatment and vaccination in Africa. Fifty-two countries have currently reported having positive cases of the virus, with more…

Mozambique forces ‘push back militant attack’ as lockdown extended by a month

MAPUTO, May 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Mozambican defence and security forces have pushed back an attack by militants against the village of Nacoba, in Metuge district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, reports Carta de Moçambique. The newspaper says that the raiders burnt down a tourist camp used by…

Covid-19: Guinea Bissau PM and three ministers tests positive for coronavirus

Nuno Gomes Nabiam BISSAU, May 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Guinea Bissau’s Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam has tested positive for coronavirus, the health ministry has said. Interior Minister Botche Cande and two other ministers also have Covid-19. Nabiam said that several members of an interministerial coronavirus committee had the disease. Guinea…

Sudan makes female genital cutting a crime in ‘new era’ for women’s rights

KHARTOUM, May 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sudan has criminalised female genital mutilation (FGM), making it punishable by three years in jail, a move campaigners said ushered in a “new era” for women’s rights in the African nation. Almost nine out of 10 women and girls in predominately Muslim Sudan have undergone…

Covid-19: First four positive cases confirmed in DR Congo prison; many inmates quarantined

KINSHASA, May 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed its first cases of COVID-19 in a prison. At least four inmates have tested positive and many more are quarantined in Ndolo prison in the capital city, Kinshasa. The overcrowded prison is hosting inmates at nearly four times…
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