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The President of Malawi and all government ministers are taking a 10% wage cut for three months to raise money to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. President Peter Mutharika made the announcement as he set out a stimulus package to help cushion the economic impact of the disease. Malawi reported its first cases of the coronavirus … Read more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests after showing persistent symptoms of coronavirus 10 days after testing positive for the virus. Downing Street his admission is a just a precautionary step and is not in any way an emergency admission. In a statement published on Sunday, Downing Street said: “On … Read more

Somalia has entered a three-day mourning period after the former prime minister Nur Hassan Hussein died in a London hospital on Wednesday after contracting the new coronavirus. He was 83. Popularly known as Nur Adde, he was Somalia’s prime minister from November 2007 to February 2009. The President of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo announced a … Read more

The election commission in Ethiopia has announced that it will postpone the parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for August due to the coronavirus outbreak. The August polls had been seen as a key test of the reformist agenda of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in what was once one of the continent’s most repressive nations. Ethiopia is Africa’s second-most … Read more

Jacques Joaquim Yhombi-Opango, former president of the Republic of the Congo, has died after contracting coronavirus, his family said. Yhombi-Opango died in a Paris hospital on Monday. He was 81. According to his son, Yhombi-Opango was ill before he contracted the virus. He led Congo-Brazzaville from 1977 until he was toppled in 1979, being ousted by the country’s current leader, … Read more

Authorities in Libya have announced the release of more than 450 prisoners as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus that has infected at least eight people in the country. A statement released by the internationally recognised government’s justice ministry on Sunday said officials decided to free 466 detainees from correctional facilities … Read more