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Rwanda: Rise in COVID-19 Cases Derails Rwanda's Plan to Lift Lockdown
Rwanda on Sunday reported 11 new coronavirus cases, the highest number of infections reported in two weeks, a development that has frustrated the country's plan to reopen the
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Zimbabwe: Schools, Colleges No Longer Isolation Centres
Schools, colleges and universities will no longer be used as Covid-19 quarantine centres for returnees since they will soon partially re-open, while hundreds of buses and kombis have joined the Zupco fleet to ease transport
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Zimbabwe: Govt Orders Full-Scale Probe Into MDC Trio's Case
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Uganda: Politicians Push to Reopen Economy Ahead of Poll Campaigns to Start
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Tanzania: Magufuli Opens Up - 'My Child Beat Coronavirus
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Zimbabwe: 48% of Local Sanitisers Fail Standards Tests
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Chris Rock, Mariah Carey, Jamie Foxx, and more to honor Andre Harrell in BET tribute
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Africa Rises in Rage Over George Floyd Death in US
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Africa: WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 03 June 2020
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Kenya: Radio Host Begs Tanasha for Forgiveness After Claiming He Fathered Her Son
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Malawi: Ansah Must Go, Chilima Returns to Court for Firing of Malawi Electoral Commission
Vice-President Saulos Chilima has returned to court Tuesday to press President Peter Mutharika to sack Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson, Jane Ansah and her fellow commissioners after Parliament, the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal found them incompetent and their
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Zimbabwe: Tyson Runs to Court As War Vets Invade, Help Selves On Farm Produce
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Nigeria's COVID-19 Cases Exceed 5,000
Nigeria, on Thursday, recorded 193 new cases of COVID-19 as the number of infected people exceeded
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Nigeria: Coronavirus - Expect New Directives From Buhari On Monday, SGF Tells Nigerians
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Nigeria May Use Schools, Hotels As Isolation Centres - Minister
The federal government will consider using schools and hotels as isolation centres for COVID-19 patients if the need arises, an official
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West Africa: Terrorist Groups Exploiting COVID-19 in Sahel, UN Peacekeeping Chief Tells Security Council
COVID-19 is complicating an already complex security situation in the Sahel, with terrorist groups exploiting the pandemic as they step up attacks on national and international forces, the UN's peacekeeping chief said on
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East Africa: Fear of COVID-19 Slows Trucking in East Africa
As trucks stacked up for days, Rwanda and neighboring Tanzania worked out a deal that scrapped plans for relay drivers but mandated transferring cargo at the border, “except for trucks carrying perishable goods and petroleum products destined to Rwanda,” the Kigali government said in a news release
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Africa: Addressing Africa's Nutrition Challenges By Strengthening Indigenous Crops
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Zimbabwe: Hundreds of Returnees Flee COVID-19 Quarantine in Malawi and Zimbabwe
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South Sudan: Could Fresh Tussle for Delegates Roll Back Peace Gains?
Signatories to the South Sudan peace agreement are now split in the middle as President Salva Kiir has managed to pull some opposition parties to his side over the allocation of
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Sudan: Govt Has No Cash to Pay Damages for 1998 Embassy Bombings - Analyst
A Sudanese political analyst says Sudan will have a hard time finding the cash to pay the punitive damages imposed by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and
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Tanzania Reopens Colleges, Sports Activities As COVID-19 Numbers Drop
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Cameroon: Govt Opens Schools Amid COVID-19 Spike
Speaking on Cameroon state media CRTV on Sunday, Cameroon prime minister Joseph Dion Ngute said president Paul Biya ordered schools that he closed last March 17 as part of measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus to reopen on June 1st because 3, 630 of the 6, 380 COVID-19 patients in the
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