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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

As if taken from the playbook of an infuriated deity, buzzing black clouds cast shadows across countless fields in rural Ethiopia.

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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 in South Africa as it grapples with COVID-19 restrictions.

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above the law

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Coronavirus: Demolition of hotels in Rivers State illegal use of lockdown?

Many countries, including Nigeria, announced lockdowns to combat the coronavirus. Different states in Nigeria implemented their own policies.

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COVID reaches the top

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Coronavirus: South Sudan’s Riek Machar latest victim of COVID-19

The South Sudanese Vice-President, Riek Machar, and his wife, Defence Minister Angelina Teny, will self-quarantine for the next two weeks, after testing positive for the coronavirus.

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dull knife

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Coronavirus: Is WHO Chief Tedros Ghebreyesus on the chopping block?

When Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus formally announced his candidacy for the post of the Director-General of the World Health Organization on 24 May 2016, he certainly received a mixed bag of interest and expectations.

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AN AFRICAN SOLUTION

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Coronavirus: DRC doctor says clinical trials can begin using artemisia

Félix Tshisekedi received Jérôme Munyangi, who had just returned from living in exile in France. We had a chance to interview the Congolese doctor and researcher who advocates using artemisia to combat the coronavirus.

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3D help

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Coronavirus: 3D print of ventilators, easy and cheap to produce says lead researcher

During this period of unprecedented strain on global healthcare systems, governments and hospitals are calling for solutions that will address the shortage of ventilators and other critical equipment to save lives during the pandemic.

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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 go into quarantine for 14 days upon arrival.

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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 currency. In the first story of our series on the impact of COVID-19 on Nigeria, we look how its economy considers strategies to reduce the naira’s dependence on volatile oil prices.

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

It began with Elizabeth Ane. President John Pombe Magufuli explained that he had suspected that the number of COVID-19 cases in Tanzania was being artificially inflated.

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