INTERNATIONAL

Authorities in Kenya have resorted to the fumigation of streets as part of extreme measures to contain the spread of coronavirus. Last night, Nairobi county government fumigated the streets using...

Former Republic of Congo president Jacques Joaquim Yhombi Opango died in France on Monday of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) French media AFP reported. Opango died at the age of 81. Yhombi...

Coronavirus on Thursday claimed its first victim in Kenya as the national tally of confirmed cases stood at 31. Mutahi Kagwe, the Health Cabinet Secretary said the patient, a 66-year-old...

Authorities in India have ordered their billion-plus population to stay inside for three weeks, in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed...

The government in Kigali has suspended all arriving and departing commercial passenger flights effective today March 20 at midnight for at least 30 days. The last flight will be Turkish Airways...

Mogadishu: AMISOM troops in a joint military offensive with Somali National Army, SNA, on Monday, March 16, 2020, liberated the bridge town of Jannale, a stronghold of Al-Shabaab, in Somalia. Jannale,...

Rwanda authorities have installed hand-washing facilities at a bus station in the capital, Kigali, as a preventive measure against the deadly coronavirus. A pro-government newspaper The New Times reported on...

Pope Francis, who is suffering from a cold, has tested negative for the coronavirus, an Italian newspaper reported on Tuesday, as Italy battles Europe's worst outbreak. Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni...

Kenya has banned export of respirator masks in the latest measures against the novel coronavirus disease, Kenyan media reported on Tuesday. The deadly disease broke out in China at the...

TRIPOLI: Libya’s unity government last week suspended its participation in UN brokered talks aimed at finding a last ceasefire agreement after forces loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar bombarded a key...