An incident that took place over Easter weekend has revealed that migrants leaving North Africa are being given contact details of Italian lawyers before they leave for Europe.
Ugandan security forces arrested and allegedly tortured a writer last week and arrested a television news anchor this week in two separate incidents, reportedly for their social media posts related to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Tuesday.
Islamic radicals severely beat 23-year-old Lydia Nabirye in Eastern Uganda, after the woman shared her Christian faith with a Muslim woman who subsequently converted to Christianity.
Over 150 people reportedly died of a “strange ailment” in Kano, Nigeria, last week over a two-day period from April 17-18, the country’s Daily Trust newspaper reported on Tuesday. Nigeria has failed to confirm if the ailment was the Chinese coronavirus.
Twelve members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) were arrested over the weekend for violating the country’s coronavirus quarantine mandates, South Africa’s News24 reported on Monday.
CAIRO (AP) — Pope Tawadros II, the spiritual leader of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Christians, has held Easter services in an empty monastery in the desert amid coronavirus restrictions which kept the faithful from gathering at churches and monasteries across the country.
A Chinese commerce ministry official asserted on Thursday that writing off onerous African debts to Beijing under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic would be “not simple nor effective.”
On April 13, Ugandan pop star turned politician Bobi Wine offered to help airlift Africans out of China after learning of the “inhumane treatment” black people were suffering at the hands of Han Chinese in the southern city of Guangzhou.
Africans living in China continued reporting incidents of discrimination this week and worried they are being scapegoated by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for a resurgence of coronavirus infections.
China’s Global Times propaganda outlet appeared to blame Africans in Guangzhou, a southern city with a large African immigrant population, on Friday for the widely documented bigotry by Han Chinese against them there, demanding they “readjust their way of thinking.”
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus faced controversy during his campaign to run the global agency for being part of a government that repeatedly denied cholera outbreaks, according to the New York Times.
Ugandan Speaker of House Rebecca Kadaga faced criticism this week after unveiling a spray she said kills the Chinese coronavirus. She supplied no corroborating scientific evidence to back her claim.
In northeast Kenya, 32 people have gone missing from a Wuhan coronavirus quarantine facility under suspicious circumstances, Nairobi News reported on Tuesday. The disappearance comes amid a partial lockdown in Kenya to stem the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
A Kenyan safari operator who would typically be hosting tourists is spearheading a volunteer effort to feed 24,000 families.
Africans in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou are being forcibly evicted from their homes and those allowed to stay being charged double for rent, DW News reported on Tuesday.
Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama told reporters on Tuesday following a meeting with the Chinese ambassador to the country, Zhou Pingjian, that reports of Chinese businesses banning black people and landlords evicting them over Chinese coronavirus fears were “unacceptable.”
Six years after Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a government secondary school in northeastern Nigeria, the Jihadist terror group is taking advantage of the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic to launch a comeback.
African residents of Guangzhou, southern China, reportedly found themselves sleeping on the street this week as renters arbitrarily evicted them, hotels banned them, and restaurants refused to serve them food.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni released a video urging people to stay fit at home after banning outdoor exercise during the country’s coronavirus lockdown.
Boko Haram is taking advantage of coronavirus lockdowns by increasing attacks in Cameroon and Nigeria. Over the weekend and into Monday, the terrorists attacked villages in both countries, local media reported on Tuesday.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, who blamed the U.S. Army for the Chinese coronavirus last month, told reporters on Wednesday that President Donald Trump potentially cutting funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) would “seriously undermine” response to the pandemic.
A hospital in Tripoli, Libya, treating coronavirus patients was bombed on Monday, injuring at least six health workers. Libya’s capital has struggled for months with an extended assault by renegade General Khalifa Haftar, struggling to wrestle power away from the U.N.-recognized government.
Zimbabwe police officers are allegedly soliciting bribes at coronavirus checkpoints, according to a report in that country’s Herald newspaper on Tuesday. The government has set up the checkpoints to control movement during the country’s virus lockdown.
It is now illegal to go outside in Kenya without wearing a protective mask as a precaution against the contagion of the Chinese coronavirus, the country’s health ministry announced this weekend.
South Sudan’s first confirmed case of coronavirus infection was identified on Sunday as a 29-year-old Dutch woman who works for the United Nations. Local and U.N. officials said they were attempting to track down everyone she came in contact with during her five weeks in the country.
Some 50 migrants on Monday forced their way into Spain’s Melilla city over the fence that separates the European enclave in northern Africa.
A leaked French diplomatic note has claimed that an outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus in Africa could lead to the collapse of regimes in various countries across the continent.
The World Health Organization (WHO) classified Libya as a “high-risk” country for coronavirus infection on Sunday, while diplomats went even further and warned of a “fatal” outbreak if fighting continues between the internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libyan National Army (LNA) under Gen. Khalifa Haftar.
Mozambique Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa said that citizens are “terrified” over a spate of recent jihadist attacks in the country, as emboldened Islamists show no sign of letting up in their assaults.
Authorities in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, arrested nearly 30 people for violating restrictions meant to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Religious leaders have failed to cancel congregational meetings in Ethiopia, despite government orders to limit large gatherings amid the Chinese coronavirus outbreak in the country, alarmed African health officials noted on Thursday.
Rwandan police shot and killed two people for defying lockdown orders on Wednesday as the nation attempts to contain its coronavirus outbreak.
Boko Haram terrorists killed at least 92 Chadian soldiers in the deadliest attack on the nation’s forces, Chad President Idriss Deby Itno said on Tuesday. The group killed at least 50 Nigerian troops in a separate attack.
Ugandan police arrested six Chinese nationals and two Ugandans at a border crossing, Voice of America reported Tuesday, and charged them with conducting acts likely to spread disease after they allegedly violated a Chinese coronavirus quarantine order.
Sister Lydie Oyane of the Catholic Congregation of Saint Mary in Gabon was found murdered in her room in Libreville on March 20, the alleged victim of a robbery.
A man in Kenya suspected of suffering from the Chinese coronavirus was beaten to death by a group of youths on Thursday as he made his way home, in the latest case of virus-related violence.
Doctors in the Nigerian capital of Abuja went on strike this week to demand two months back payment as Chinese coronavirus cases in Africa’s most populous country begin to rise.
East Africa, which has so far been spared the worst of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, is facing its own life-threatening plague as hundreds of billions of locusts swarm, destroying crops and livelihoods.
The Chinese government’s Xinhua news agency celebrated the alleged embrace of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a term that covers a wide variety of herbal and other natural treatments, in Africa on Thursday as the continent prepares to diagnose and treat Chinese coronavirus cases.
A mystery illness has killed more than 2,000 nomads in Ethiopia’s Somali region since 2014, according to a report by Voice of America (VOA).
