Covid-19: Tunisia deploys police robot on lockdown patrol

The robot questions people it sees out on the streets TUNIS, April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A police robot has been deployed to patrol areas of Tunisia’s capital, Tunis, to ensure that people are observing a coronavirus lockdown. If it spies anyone walking in the largely deserted streets, it approaches them…

Covid-19: Four African countries yet to record cases

ADDIS ABABA, April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Lesotho, Comoros, South Sudan and São Tomé and Príncipe are the remaining African countries yet to record a single case of coronavirus. Fifty African countries as at April 3 had recorded cases of coronavirus totalling over 7,000. So far 284 deaths have been recorded…

Covid-19: Kenya’s cases rise to 122 as six-year-old dies

Pastors believe Kenya may be involved in a futile exercise as long as churches remain closed NAIROBI, April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A six-year-old has died from the coronavirus as cases in Kenya stand at 122 after 12 more people tested positive. In a briefing, Health CAS Mercy Mwangangi said the…

Covid-19: World Bank approves initial US$1.9b in emergency funds, half for India

A poor Indian places his fingerprint on a biometric machine after purchasing food rations in Prayagraj, India WASHINGTON, April 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Bank said it had approved an initial US$1.9 billion in emergency funds for coronavirus response operations in 25 developing countries, with more than half the aid earmarked to help…

Libya: UN-backed GNA forces kill 20 Haftar militia members

TRIPOLI, April 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) said Friday that its forces killed 20 militia members loyal to renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar in Sirte.The militia members were killed in an airstrike, Mustafa al-Mujie, the spokesman for the GNA-led Burkan Al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) Operation, told…

20 killed in Congo-Brazzaville as lightning triggers electrocution on first day of lockdown

BRAZZAVILLE, April 3 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Twenty people were killed when a lightning strike damaged a high-voltage power line in a suburb of the Congolese capital Brazzaville, the local mayor and witnesses said.The mayor of Kintele, Stella Mensah Sassou Nguesso, told state radio that seven bodies had been sent to a…

At least 20 killed in Somali clan violence: official

MOGADISHU, April 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 20 people have been killed in southern Somalia in clashes between militia from rival clans fighting over land, officials said. Tensions between fighters from the Owrmale and Majerten clans some 30 kilometres outside the southern port city of Kismayo, have been rising in…

COVID-19: Malaysians’ situation in Mauritania being monitored

By Nur Ashikin Abdul Aziz KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Embassy of Malaysia in Morocco is monitoring the condition of some 37 Malaysian professionals and students in Mauritania after the country imposed an Emergency Order and the closure of all entry points into the North African country, including the Nouakchott…

Covid-19: Top South African HIV scientist Gita Ramjee dies

South African scientist, late Gita Ramjee DURBAN, April 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tributes are being paid to world-renowned South African scientist Gita Ramjee, who has died from Covid-19-related complications. “She dedicated many years of her life to finding HIV prevention solutions for women,” her colleague and friend Gavin Churchyard said. Head…

Covid-19: Tracking Africa’s cases

ADDIS ABABA, April 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Less than two months after Egypt became the first country in Africa to confirm a coronavirus case, the outbreak appears to have reached almost every nation on the continent of 1.2 billion people.Of Africa’s 54 countries, only five have yet to report a case…
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