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Corona Chronicles: 18 May – 22 May

More than 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and over 3000 deaths have now been reported across Africa, according to data by the Africa Centres for Disease Control. But certain countries, are still holding back on taking tough measures to curb the spread, as we saw this week.

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hopping to problems

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Hopping to another crisis: Locusts and coronavirus in East Africa Despite global efforts to curb the coronavirus, measures to stop increasing locust invasions in East Africa should not be pushed aside.

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MIXED HARVEST

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Coronavirus: South African Distell trying to curb hit from pandemic Distell has toasted the performance of its Kenyan operations, while it is mulling the sale of two premium wine farms and other cost-reduction measures...

© Rivers state Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike at site of demolished hotels on 10 May 2020 (Simeon Nwakaudu/Special Assistant to Wike via facebook)

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above the law

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Coronavirus: Demolition of hotels in Rivers State illegal use of lockdown? Nigerian governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, ordered the demolition of two hotels in his state, an illegal move.

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COVID reaches the top

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Coronavirus: South Sudan’s Riek Machar latest victim of COVID-19 South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar, his wife, Defence Minister Angelina Teny, and several aides tested positive for coronavirus.

dull knife

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Coronavirus: Is WHO Chief Tedros Ghebreyesus on the chopping block? Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is facing the world’s worst pandemic in over 100 years, but at the centre of the fight comes a political one which is pi...

artemisa-rdc-592×296-1589462950 Jérôme Munyangi, the Congolese pro-artemisia doctor (right), during his meeting with President Félix Tshisekedi, May 12 2020 © DR : DRC presidency

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AN AFRICAN SOLUTION

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Coronavirus: DRC doctor says clinical trials can begin using artemisia Jérôme Munyangi, who fled the DR-Congo in March 2019 after considering himself “persecuted” for promoting artemisia as an antimalarial treatment, has ...

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3D help

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Coronavirus: 3D print of ventilators, easy and cheap to produce says lead researcher A team of researchers have produced a prototype for 3D printing of non-invasive respirators to help countries with smaller budgets succeed in the figh...

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pandemic polls

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Burundi: WHO reps expelled ahead of polls set to go, despite COVID-19 Burundi expelled World Health Organisation (WHO) representatives in the country and warned election observers from the region that they would have to ...

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Naira Nightmares

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Nigeria VS Coronavirus: Cutting naira’s umbilical dependence on oil The fragility of the reserves being used to support the naira and it’s revalued rate shows that Nigeria needs to find new ways of earning foreign curr...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli waves as he attends a ceremony marking the country’s 58th independence anniversary in 2019. Stringer

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devil details

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COVID-19 is casting Magufuli in the worst light, in an election year

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