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Ethiopian troops have claimed responsibility for shooting down a private Kenyan plane carrying coronavirus medical aid on May 4, the German outlet Deutsche Welle reported on Monday.

Kenya’s regional governors are calling on national authorities to close the country’s borders as illegal migration from surrounding countries has caused an increase in imported coronavirus cases, Kenyan newspaper the Nation reported on Thursday.

Somalia has kept its mosques open during Ramadan despite the coronavirus pandemic, attracting a flood of faithful Kenyans from across the countries’ shared border, Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation reported on Monday.

Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, issued scathing remarks against the communist government of China on Thursday, announcing that Nigerian diplomats in Guangzhou were instructed to document cases of racism by Chinese against their citizens.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe confirmed on Friday that a woman had tested positive for Chinese coronavirus in the country, the first to do so since the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, late last year.

An employee of Kenya Airways suspended for videotaping the arrival of a passenger aircraft from China announced on Monday that he will file a lawsuit contesting his suspension.

A Nairobi high court suspended flights connecting Kenya to China on Friday after a recording of a China Southern flight landing in the capital triggered a widespread public backlash the day before.

Kenyans expressed outrage late Wednesday as their government announced it would allow China to resume flights into the country and request that Chinese citizens “self-quarantine” to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

Kenyans have long complained that the massive Standard Gauge Railroad (SGR) project financed by loans from China’s Belt and Road (BRI) infrastructure project was an expensive indulgence that created few good jobs for local people because Chinese managers and engineers were brought in to handle the work. Documents made public this week from the Chinese contractor that handled the project revealed that the number of workers imported from China was much higher than previously admitted, and the cost of their high salaries and very comfortable accommodations was borne by Kenyan taxpayers.

Eastern Africa is facing a food crisis after a devastating plague of desert locusts, the worst seen in the region for several generations.

The Chinese government is selling Kenya tons of fish poisoned with high levels of toxins like mercury, lead, and arsenic, the African country’s The Nation newspaper revealed in a study published Wednesday.

The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told reports in a briefing Tuesday that health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are using testing systems developed for Ebola to test for the Chinese novel coronavirus.

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party in Zimbabwe pushed for a total ban on Chinese travelers on Wednesday in hopes of keeping the Wuhan coronavirus from spreading to Africa.

Police in Kenya arrested four Chinese nationals, local media reported on Sunday, after a shocking video began circulating of one of them publicly flogging one of his employees, a Kenyan national, for allegedly being late to work.

Fourteen children were killed and dozens more injured following a stampede on Monday at the end of classes at a primary school in western Kenya, local authorities announced.

The United Nations has released $19 million in funding to East African nations to help step up the fight against the devastating desert locust outbreak across the region, the body’s humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock announced this weekend. 

China’s years-long expansion into Africa – and the corresponding flood of Chinese workers establishing themselves there – has left the continent particularly vulnerable to the spread of a new iteration of coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China.

The head of a special U.S. development program will visit Kenya this week to hold initial talks over the possibility of providing $350 million towards a major infrastructure project, local media reported on Monday.

New research by the Pew Research Centre has found that President Donald Trump holds broad support in both Nigeria and Kenya, although he is generally unpopular in other parts of the world. 

The United States deployed additional military support to Kenya this week to strengthen security against the Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab. Nairobi, on Tuesday, reiterated its commitment to expanding its trade links with Iran.

Washington (AFP) – A jihadist attack on a military base in Kenya killed three people Sunday, including a US service member and two civilian defense contractors, the American military said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends

Al-Shabab, a Somali terror group linked to al-Qaeda, attacked a military base Sunday morning in Kenya that houses some American military personnel, U.S. and Kenyan military said.

Members of Kenya’s LGBT community organized their own event to celebrate Christmas as a means of combatting loneliness, isolation, and exclusion during the festive season, local media reported Monday.

A video released by Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab on Tuesday included the first glimpse of its elusive leader, a man currently known as “Abu Ubaidah,” although he has used other names in the past.

Kenya marked the end of 200 days since the abduction of two Cuban slave doctors, believed to be under the custody of the jihadist terrorist group al-Shabaab, on Wednesday with hearings featuring witnesses of the abduction near the Somali border in April.

A number of African nations including Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, and Sudan have closed their borders in recent months just as Europe is relaxing its own external borders.

China opened the second phase of its $5 billion railroad in Kenya, a major component of the international Belt and Road Initiative, on Thursday.

A Catholic priest in Kenya who had been missing for seven days after being kidnapped has been found dead with his throat slit and his body “cut” and buried in a shallow grave.

There are likely “tens of thousands” of fraudulent refugees from Africa living in the United States, a CNN investigation reveals.

Italian intelligence officials have claimed that kidnapped aid worker Silvia Romano is not only alive but was forced to convert to Islam and marry a Somalian man.