A third of humanity on virus lockdown
India’s 1.3billion people woke Wednesday to find themselves under the world’s most extensive coronavirus lockdown – with police using rattan canes to beat people into...
Month : March 2020
Coronavirus infections spike in Saudi Arabia
205 new infections are the biggest jump in Saudi Arabia in a single day Saudi Arabia reports first coronavirus death as total number of...
Nairobi, Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale identified as Covid-19 hotspots
A section of Nairobi. Photo/Monicah Mwangi In Kilifi, 17 county officials under isolation after deputy governor tested positive. In Summary • Out of 82...
64 Ethiopians found dead in cargo container in Mozambique
AFP , Tuesday 24 Mar 2020 Sixty-four migrants from Ethiopia were found dead on Tuesday, crammed inside a freight container in the northwestern Mozambican province...
German army loses 6 million face masks in Kenya
Tuesday March 24 2020 A woman wears a face mask in Monterey Park on February 27, 2020. PHOTO | FREDERIC J. BROWN | AFP In...
US for the first time registered over 130 deaths in a day due to coronavirus
A staff member pushes a patient in a wheelchair at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City.AFP Photo World, America Published...
Africa Urgently Needs $100 Billion to Face Coronavirus Pandemic
The UN Economic Commission for Africa predicts a loss of nearly 30 million jobs in the continent unless several measures are taken quickly to protect...
Coronavirus: “We’ve gone from looming threat to looming disaster”
John Nkengasong, Africa’s Director of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), at the African Union (AU) Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri By Olivier...
SUPERHERO Somalian Humanitarian Khadija Farah SCOOPS Prestigious International AWARD By
Photo: Khadija was notified of her win by Mustafa Mohamed Gulled, Field Site Manager, International Medical Corps Somalia 03/23/2020 Khadija Farah, a Mogadishu-native, has scooped...
State, local officials to Trump: ‘Lead or get out of the way’
US President Donald Trump addressing his administration”s daily coronavirus task force briefing in Washington, DC [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters] The frustration centres on the growing realisation...