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Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has termed the Covid-19 pandemic as a “test from God” and called for three days of prayers and fasting to overcome it. It is at the funerals of his chief Secretary, John Kijazi who died of an undisclosed illness while undergoing treatment, that the Tanzanian president …

Heavy gunfire has been reported in Somali capital, Mogadishu, as a group of opposition leaders defied a government ban on public gatherings and held protests. Security forces have closed most roads in the city over the planned protests. The opposition parties want President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo to leave office after …

The new American President Joe Biden will attend his first meeting with Group of Seven leaders on Friday to discuss plans to defeat the coronavirus, reopen the battered world economy and counter challenges posed by China. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only killed 2.4 million people but also trigged an …

According to a Somali government statement, rebels have attacked the army in a position not far from the presidential palace in Mogadishu, the Capital. The security Minister Abukar Islow in a short statement, said that the attack was repelled. According to residents of the area, there were sounds of heavy …

Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the Algerian President has called early elections. In a live television address on Thursday night, he announced the dissolution of the lower house of parliament a year ahead of schedule and said there would be a government reshuffle within the next 48 hours. He also ordered the release …

Six children were killed and five others injured in northwest Uganda after an old explosive they found in the bushes detonated as they played with it, police said Thursday. Three children died instantly while three others succumbed to injuries on their way to hospital in Adjumani, a district of the …

Emmanuel Macron the French president said that Europe and the United States should urgently allocate 3% to 5% of their coronavirus vaccine supplies to developing countries where vaccination campaigns have scarcely begun. In an interview granted to the UK-based Financial Times newspaper, he said some African nations were having to …

A suspected case of Ebola in Liberia has been detected in a woman who came from the Guinean town of Nzérékoré, which is in the region of a new outbreak of the virus. According to the Liberian Health Minister Wilhelmina Jallah specimens had been collected from the woman who is …

Zimbabwe has launched its Covid-19 vaccination campaign and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is the first to be vaccinated in a bid to reassure the public that they are safe. The campaign is being done with Sinopharm vaccine, donated by the Chinese government. only 200,000 vaccines have been delivered and 600,000 are …

According to a statement of the Ugandan military, seven soldiers have been given jail sentences by a disciplinary committee for beating up journalists outside the United Nations Human rights office on Wednesday. They were given sentences of between two to three months at a military detention facility. The trial of …