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JOHANNESBURG – As cases rise and more countries order lockdowns, Africa’s experience with the coronavirus depends on what happens over the next month, said the director of the continent’s Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.     “And why is that so? Because we...

HARARE – The United Nations says it needs $21 million to ease food insecurity in Zimbabwe as the country deals with measures imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The government says it is going to release funds to help people most affected by...

Former Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein has died of coronavirus at a London hospital, the family told VOA’s Somali service. Relatives of the former prime minister, popularly known as Nur Adde, confirmed his passing. A family member said Nur Adde died at around 5:00...

UNITED NATIONS – How should the U.N. General Assembly and its 193 member states respond to the coronavirus pandemic? Members have been sent two rival resolutions for consideration — and under new voting rules instituted because the global body isn’t holding meetings, if a single...

WASHINGTON / HARGEISA – Authorities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland reported the territory’s first two cases of coronavirus on Tuesday. Health officials in the capital, Hargeisa, said samples taken from two individuals — a local man who visited Britain and a Chinese man —...