A Ugandan trader has said she contracted malaria days after a directive issued for them to sleep at the markets during the ongoing lockdown, reports the Daily Monitor newspaper

Five bodies have been found on the streets in Kumasi in the Ashanti region.

Kenya rebuked China on Tuesday over coronavirus-related discrimination against its citizens in Guangzhou province while noting that no Kenyans there had died from COVID-19.

The number of prisoners who have tested positive for coronavirus in a correctional facility in South Africa has increased by 49 in two days.

INTERPOL on Tuesday unmasked an international COVID-19 fraud racket straddling three European countries – Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. Nigeria was mentioned, as home to an account that was to receive a fraudulent onward transfer sum.

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta says Ghana is in position to best manage the economy better than most countries hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Ghana has achieved another stride in its case management of confirmed COVID-19 cases as the nation has now recorded 17 full recoveries

Officials with the U.N Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) say a resurgence of locusts which devastated crops in parts of Africa earlier this year is beginning to hit rural parts of East Africa.

President Muhammadu Buhari has extended his good wishes to the people of Chibok in Borno State, as they hold prayers and thanksgiving services to mark the sixth anniversary of the kidnapping of their daughters by Boko Haram terrorist group.