Africa

Facebook has said it is running a fact-checking pilot in Nigeria to help stop the spread of fake news about coronavirus. The internet-based life goliath says it will use its informing application - WhatsApp - to assist analysts with social occasion falsehood and react with precise data. It will also give...

CAIRO, 19 November 2019: Egypt has ranked as the eighth safest country globally and second safest in the Middle East after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the Gallup list during the year. As indicated by Gallup's report got by Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli, Egypt has propelled for this present...

A message by the Egyptian government on Monday night was beaming on the great pyramid of Giza. The message is to motivate people to stay home, and to thank whom they help. "Thank you to those keeping us safe", "Stay at home" and "Stay safe", said the messages in Arabic...

Once the first Coronavirus case was confirmed in Egypt, the government's efforts were just noticeably incredible! Therefore, The World Health Organization (WHO) and CNN came out to praise the efforts of the Egyptian government for the way they are dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak. For example: Schools and Universities closure and...

Malians are voting in long-delayed parliamentary elections a day after the country's first coronavirus death. The survey has likewise been dominated by Wednesday's hijacking of resistance pioneer Soumaïla Cissé by presumed Islamist activists. The decisions should have occurred in 2018. However, they have been put off various occasions, essentially due to...

Apple has been increasing its territories since its formation in 2008, and currently has stores and service centers in close to 195 nations as of this week. Recently they came to acquire trade rights in 20 more countries spread across Africa, South Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and others....

Former President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak died, at the age of 94, after a struggle with illness. Mubarak, the son of Kafr Mosayleh, Menoufia, assumed the presidency of Egypt for nearly thirty years, following the assassination of former President Anwar Sadat, and the massive popular protests that started on January 25th...

General Khaled Foda, Governor of South Sinai, issued a decision to prevent entry and exit in Sharm El Sheikh, starting today, for a period of 14 days. It was also decided to carry out a medical examination and tests of all those in Sharm El Sheikh hotels and to prevent...

Tributes are being paid to world-renowned South African scientist Gita Ramjee, who has died from Covid-19-related complications. "She dedicated many years of her life to finding HIV prevention solutions for women," her colleague and friend Gavin Churchyard told the BBC. Head of UNAids Winnie Byanyima said Prof Ramjee's passing was a...

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers is asking the Ghana government to consider helping the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) to get a decent credit line or an open credit framework set up promptly to stock oil for the nation's vital holds or stocking needs. This follows the dive of...

Kenya has affirmed three additional instances of coronavirus, carrying the aggregate to seven. Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said all the cases the patients had shown up abroad. The latest cases include a couple who had gone from Spain's capital, Madrid, through Dubai, showing up on 5 March. The other included a Burundian...

The wife of South Africa's first coronavirus tolerant has additionally tested positive, bringing to three the number of cases identified in the nation, the wellbeing service says. The couple had visited Italy as a component of a gathering of 10. Their two children had tested negative. The lady's 39-year-old wife was...

According to a new global poll, Egypt is top-ranked as the safest country in Africa and higher than the USA and UK as well. Gallup Global Law and Order ask people every year if they feel safe walking at night without feeling afraid of being victims of crimes. So, Egypt has...

British-Sierra Leonean actor Idris Elba says he has diagnosed for coronavirus and is isolating himself. "It sucks... I'm doing OK," Elba said in a video shared to Twitter. He stated that he did the test after knowing he might be dealing with an infected person: This morning I tested positive for Covid...

An airstrike in Somalia has murdered a senior officer of activist Islamist bunch Al-Shabab, state radio reports. The US gave a compensation of $5m (£3,8m) in 2008 for data on the whereabouts of Bashir Mohamed Qorgab. The US completes visit airstrikes in Somalia to target aggressors. It has not yet remarked...

Former Marseille president Pape Diouf has passed away at age 68 after being diagnosed with coronavirus. The Senegalese were president somewhere in the range of 2005 and 2009 when Marseille completed second in Ligue 1 twice and arrived at two French Cup finals. They went to win a first French association...

A Kenyan blogger has been restricted by a court from posting any data on coronavirus on his social media accounts, as a major aspect of his bail conditions. Robert Alai, who has 1.3 million devotees on Twitter, was captured on Friday and went through the end of the week in...

When Kem Senou Pavel Daryl, a 21-year-old Cameroonian student living in the Chinese city of Jingzhou, contracted the coronavirus he had no intention of leaving China, regardless of whether that was conceivable. "Regardless of what happens I don't want to take the disorder back to Africa," he said from his...

South Africa has seen a jump in coronavirus cases - with 116 presently affirmed as the nation introduces new measures with shut schools and borders. The numbers are as yet rising pointedly from one case a fortnight back. A large portion of those with the infection brought it once again from...