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Nigeria’s confirmed coronavirus cases passed 30,000 on Wednesday, the country’s disease control centre said, as the virus spreads in Africa’s most populous country amid an easing of restrictions put in place to curb the disease. The…
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Ivory Coast’s prime minister and the ruling party’s candidate for the October presidential election, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, has died just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France. The 61-year-old Gon Coulibaly,…
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Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima and his wife Mary have tested negative for coronavirus days after his personal secretary died from the virus. Mr Chilima made the announcement on Monday as the inauguration ceremony took place in…
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Madagascar authorities have imposed a total lockdown in the Analamanga region due to the rise in coronavirus cases, the presidency said in a statement. Analamanga is a region in central Madagascar, containing the capital Antananarivo and…
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Three countries, the United States of America, India and Ghana, have written respectively to the Federal Government requesting the extradition of 11 Nigerians, a report has revealed. The cases for which the Nigerians are wanted in the…
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Recoveries from the novel coronavirus in Russia exceeded 450,000 on Monday as the nation dropped under the world’s top three countries with the most COVID-19 cases. According to its emergency task force, at least 3,579 people were…
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Senegal’s President Macky Sall has quarantined himself after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. The president tested negative for COVID-19 but will self-isolate for two weeks as a precaution, his office said…
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Mozambique’s main opposition party Renamo has apologised for the embarrassing behaviour of Antonio Muchanga, one of its most prominent MPs, who appeared drunk on a TV political discussion show. Mr Muchanga was so inebriated when he was on…
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A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after selling two rough Tanzanite stones – the biggest ever find in the country. Saniniu Laizer earned £2.4m ($3.4m) from the country’s mining ministry for the gemstones,…
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A tally of figures collated by Johns Hopkins University shows that the total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean is now more than 100,000. More than half of these deaths have been reported in Brazil,…
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