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Outgoing Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza is dead. Nkurunziza, 55, succumbed to cardiac arrest while undergoing treatment at Karusi Fiftieth Anniversary Hospital in Bujumbura on Monday afternoon, reports in Burundi indicate.
“He watched a volleyball match on Saturday afternoon in Ngozi but…
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The Tanzanian government on Tuesday summoned US Ambassador Dr. Inmi Patterson to clarify the statements the mission issued this month regarding the Covid-19 situation in the country.
Amb. Patterson was summoned to the Foreign Affairs Ministry office in Dar es Salaam, where she held a meeting with…
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The US Supreme Court on Monday, May 18th, awarded victims of the 1998 bomb attacks on American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) $4.3 billion in punitive damages.
The top court ordered Sudan to compensate the victims on grounds that it was found guilty of providing assistance to Al-…
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Riek Machar, the Vice-President of South Sudan has been infected with Covid-19, his office has announced.
Machar tested positive for the virus together with his wife Angelina Teny, who serves as the country’s defense minister.
Machar’s office in a statement on Monday, May 18th, said a number of his…
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Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli has divulged that one of his two children was recently infected with Covid-19.
Speaking during a church service on Sunday, May 17th, Magufuli said the child did not go to any hospital after the infection, adding that they used home-made remedies and he is now…
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Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga has been captured in Paris 25 years after he went into hiding, French authorities confirmed on Saturday, May 16th.
French Justice Ministry said 84-year-old Kabuga was arrested in a flat in Asnieres-Sur-Seine, near Paris, where he was living under a fake…
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A US-born woman believed to be Spain’s oldest person has defeated the Covid-19 disease, becoming the oldest coronavirus survivor in the world.
113-year-old Maria Branyas was infected with the virus in April at the Santa Maria del Tura care home in Olot City, where she has lived for the past two…
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The US embassy in Dar es Salaam has raised alarm over the status of the Covid-19 pandemic in Tanzania even as the government continues to conceal information on the number of infections and fatalities.
The embassy asked American citizens in Tanzania to stay at home, saying that the situation in the…
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Rwanda has turned to technology to bolster its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
The country’s Health Ministry has imported five robots that will be used as an interface between patients and healthcare workers in Covid-19 treatment centers.
Rwandan Health Minister Daniel Ngamije said the…
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Health experts now fear that the Covid-19 disease could be transmitted through sex.
This is after researchers in China detected the infection in the semen of seven male patients suffering from the novel coronavirus, according to UK’s Daily Mail.
Semen from the seven Covid-19 patients were found to…
