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April 7: Uhuru rules out total lockdown Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta explained further why he had not locked down the entire country averring that it was in the interest of the greater public good. According to him, doing so will mean depriving a sizeable number of the population from feeding. He stresses that it would be the last resort if ...

The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic across Africa is heading towards 500 as of April 7, 2020. The casualties cut across age groups. From the death of a 6 year-old in Kenya, older patients in most instances and persons in the youth bracket. Whiles each death is reported with a sombre mood and with condolences to affected families, some of ...

The coronavirus pandemic has been confirmed in over 180 countries globally since it was first discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019. The World Health Organisation, WHO, has since declared it a pandemic due to its spread. All except three African countries have recorded cases as governments roll out measures to combat the spread. In this article, ...

As scientists work around the clock to develop a vaccine for the world’s most debilitating disease, Covid-19, Ethiopia says it is developing a cure. In a joint press statement, the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MoIT) said: “a domestic treatment drug” is being developed by the traditional medicine experts of the country. The two ...

For the last 12 years, around four days a week, when the light appears over the skies of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Tsehay Wulo, 55, ascends to Entoto, a forested mountain north of the capital. Throughout the week, hundreds of impoverished young and old women roam the eucalyptus forest which stands 3,200 meters (nearly 10,500 feet) above the sea ...

British Airways will today suspend around 36,000 of its 45,000 staff as coronavirus left the airline on its knees. The airline has reached a broad deal with the Unite union that will include the suspension of 80 per cent of its cabin crew, ground staff, engineers and those working at the head office in Harmondsworth, near Heathrow. The furloughed UK staff are ...

Manchester United have signed some great players, but they have missed out on some even greater ones, writes Sky Sports News’ Kaveh Solhekol. If they had bought every player on this list, they would probably have won the title and the Champions League every year, and that’s not an over exaggeration. These are the 50 best players that got away – and ...

Chairman Daniel Levy is one of 550 non-playing staff at Tottenham taking a pay cut to “protect jobs” amid the coronavirus crisis. Spurs have also followed Newcastle in furloughing – a scheme in which an employee does not work but gets 80 per cent of their salary paid for the next two months by the government – some staff “where ...

Xavi believes he is ready to manage Barcelona but insists there cannot be any “toxicity” in the dressing room. The midfielder spent the majority of his playing career with Barcelona, from 1998 to 2015, playing more than 700 matches. During his time at the club he won eight La Liga titles and lifted four Champions League trophies and also played ...

Jose Mourinho and his Tottenham Hotspur camp have decided to conduct live training video sessions with the players, as social distancing has been advised by the Premier League during the coronavirus pandemic. The league is set to resume on April 30 and clubs are trying to ensure that all players stay fit while home. The players have been working from ...