At least 100 residential buildings, school, churches were reportedly destroyed by an explosion Akure, the Ondo State capital, writes Victor Ogunyinka for Vanguard. Read more »

Fifty-five people were arrested on the first day of SA's COVID-19 lockdown as the number of confirmed cases jumped to 1,170, writes Greg Nicolson for Daily Maverick. The state ... Read more »

South Africa has recorded the first deaths from COVID-19, just as the country's 21-day lockdown comes into effect. The total number of infected people is past the 1,000 mark, ... Read more »

Uganda's Finance Minister Matia Kasaija has told parliament that the country's fuel reserves were drying up as the quota it imports through Kenya's Mombasa seaport has ... Read more »

The Cameroon veteran jazz singer and saxophonist player has died after contracting the new coronavirus. Manu Dibango is best known for the 1972 hit Soul Makossa which ... Read more »

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said that the death toll from the Lassa fever outbreak has risen to at least 173. Nigeria is currently dealing with what is ... Read more »

The group's leader Ahmed Diriye, in February reportedly attempted to expel the head of finance and intelligence operations Mahad Karate and the head of external operations Bashir ... Read more »

The presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari approved funds for Lagos State and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to contain the spread of COVID-19. Buhari also ... Read more »

This far, deaths from the virus have been reported in Egypt, Algeria and more recently Sudan. Read more »

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged warring parties across the world to lay down their weapons in support of the bigger battle against  COVID-19. The ... Read more »