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Cameroon holds its first ever regional election on Sunday, which the government says hands more power to the provinces but opponents fear only maintains President Paul Biya's long hold on power.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
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By Associated Press Undefined WASHNGTON (AP) — The departing Trump administration has ended five cultural-exchange programs with China that it says were being used for Chinese propaganda and had no benefit to the United States. The terminations follow new visa restrictions announced by Washington limiting stays in the U.S. by members of China's Communist Party and signal further erosion in relations with Beijing in the final weeks of President Donald Trump's time in office. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the exchange programs he ended were fully paid for and operated by the Chinese government 'as soft power propaganda tools.' […]
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Five suspects have been arrested after the Hawks discovered and raided a suspected drug manufacturing laboratory in Brakpan, Johannesburg.
The spikes in the Garden Route and Eastern Cape have caught authorities by “surprise”, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has said.
Shambala Private Game Reserve, in Limpopo, was voted the world’s top luxury private game reserve in the World Travel Awards 2020.
Hundreds of medics have protested in Tunisia after a young doctor died in a hospital elevator accident in the country's northwest.
Some health facilities in Cameroon are turning to telemedicine as patients have been keeping away from and fleeing medical facilities for fear of contracting the coronavirus Covid-19, which has so far killed 313 people in the country.
Early this month, Dr Manaouda Malachie, Cameroon’s minister of Public Health, said patients have fled health facilities following the daily spike in the number of Covid-19 cases especially in the towns of Bamenda, Bafoussam, Douala and the capital Yaoundé.
Mr Edwin Biyeh Abi, Country Manager of Unite for Health Foundation, a local NGO that assists Cameroonians to access healthcare through its micro-clinics, said there has been a drastic decline in the number of patients visiting their health centres since the coronavirus figures soared.
“We have decided to launch a telemedicine programme to permit those in the communities we serve to be able to use their phone and reach out to us either through direct phone call or video calls to consult with our doctors and get the best of advice on what to do about their health,” Mr Abi said.
Several other health facilities, including Blessed Hand Clinic in Yaoundé, have also adopted telemedicine.
The 15-year-old boy is believed to be related to the victim.
A Mpumalanga man has been sentenced to life behind bars for brutally killing his former girlfriend on a bus in front of horrified passengers.
Paul Holden, a director of investigations at Shadow World Investigations, continued to deliver bombshell testimony at the Zondo commission.
“I am urging people with the disease symptoms to come to the medical facility and avoid infecting other Muslims,” Sheikh Mohamed Bali, a senior al-Shabab official and a member of the group’s ad hoc COVID-19 response committee, said in a speech broadcast by the group’s radio arm Andalus.
For months, Somali health officials have warned that areas controlled by al-Shabab in central and southern Somalia could be at high risk for the virus’ spread.
Confirmed cases = 2,513
\t\tNumber of deaths = 85
\t\tRecoveries = 532
\t\tActive cases = 1,896
\t
\tJohn Hopkins Uni stats valid as of June 12, 2020
May 15: Somalis outraged over ‘fleeing compatriots, officials’
\tA local radio station in the country reported that a number of Somalis including government officials had left the country in the wake of COVID-19 spread especially in the capital Mogadishu.
Total confirmed cases = 1,284
Total recoveries = 135
Total deaths = 53
Active cases = 1,096
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 15, 2020 10:00 GMT
May 5: Probe into mishap involving Kenya coronavirus jet
\tSomalia case stats as of May 5, 2020: Total confirmed cases: 835, Total recoveries: 75, Total deaths: 38.
Officially, however, Somalia has recorded 601 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 28 deaths and 31 recoveries according to John Hopkins University tallies valid as of May 2, 2020 at 9:30 GMT.
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has revealed that liquor inspectors 'have a vital part to play in December', to ensure that bars are sticking to the rules.
A woman pretending to be a customer and four accomplices have fled with an undisclosed amount of jewellery after robbing a store in Kirstenhof.
The Rage Festival has halted ticket sales for its Plettenberg Bay event, following Covid-19 cases linked to its Ballito event.
It's unclear at this stage if the remains inside the hearse were burnt.
Regional elections are taking place in Cameroon with residents voting for the first time for members of the country’s upper House of legislature.
Local representatives on Sunday are voting to appoint councils in all 10 regions made up of delegates and traditional rulers.
It puts into action a 1996 law that promised decentralised government but was never enacted.
Since 2016, the regions which comprise Cameroon’s minority Anglophone area have been in conflict with the central French-speaking government over growing requirements to use French in the legal and education systems.
But opponents say the vote offers only the semblance of regional autonomy, and comes too late to fix the conflict.
The Anglophone opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF) has withdrawn from the ballot and called for a boycott.
Separatist fighters said they will arrest anyone participating.
As a result, the majority party in government, Cameroon People’s Democratic Party, is expected to sweep the elections.
More than 3,000 people have been killed in Cameroon's anglophone crisis which beganin 2016. About 500,000 have been forced from their homes due to the conflict.
The South African Motor Body Repairers’ Association said if the dealer was aware of the problems, or repaired this vehicle and then sold it, they have endangered lives and could also be accused of intent to defraud.
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[ICG] Yaoundé/Nairobi/Brussels -- Two years after Cameroon's contested presidential election, political rivalry has taken a worrying direction as the incumbent's supporters trade ethnic slurs with backers of his main challenger. The government should undertake electoral reforms, bar discrimination and work with social media platforms to curtail hate speech.
