More than 60,000 women from five counties who have been supporting their families through beadwork are staring at poverty as the effects of Covid-19 on the economy increase.
Officials in Gakenke District on Friday joined residents of Rumbi Cell in Rusasa Sector for a somber ceremony to lay to rest eight members of the same family who perished during the torrential rain that pounded parts of the country early Thursday.
As many as 190,000 people across Africa could die in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic if crucial containment measures fail, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns.
The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Thursday rejected an assertion by Tanzania’s president that his nation’s coronavirus tests are faulty and are giving too many false positives.
