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CALVIN MUNERLYN WAS SHOT DEAD ON FRIDAY. [SOURCE: BBC]M A woman has been charged along with her husband and son with killing a security guard who refused her daughter entry to a shop because she was not wearing a face covering. Calvin Munerlyn, 43, was shot in the back of the head on Friday at […]

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A plane carrying aid supplies for use in the fight against the coronavirus crashed in Somalia on Monday, killing all six people on board, the Somali transport minister said. He declined to speculate on the cause of the crash, but a former defence minister told Reuters he had spoken to a witness […]

Tanzania President John Magufuli  Dar es Salaam. President John Magufuli yesterday voiced his reservations about the accuracy of Covid-19 test results from the National Community Health Laboratory, saying some of them left a lot to be desired. Dr Magufuli said the newly-appointed Health ministry permanent secretary, Prof Mabula Mchembe, supervised Covid-19 laboratory testing for samples […]

 A new drug developed by UK scientists to treat COVID-19 patients is being trialled at University Hospital Southampton. Developed by UK biotech company Synairgen, it uses a protein called interferon beta, which our bodies produce when we get a viral infection. Initial results from the trial are expected by the end of June. There are […]

Trump, who has been criticised for not moving faster early in the year to stop the spread of the disease, sought to blunt the criticism by blaming China [Joshua Roberts/Reuters] US President Donald Trump has predicted 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the country and a vaccine to be ready by the end of the year, contradicting […]

An artist’s impression of what the H-20 may look like. Photo: Weibo China’s new generation strategic bomber is likely to be ready for delivery this year, but Beijing is said to be weighing the impact of its unveiling at a complex time in regional relations due to the Military sources said the Xian H-20 supersonic […]

Italy became the first Western democracy to shut down virtually everything in the face of COVID-19 © Alberto Pizzoli, AFP Stir-crazy Italians will be free to stroll and visit relatives for the first time in nine weeks on Monday as Europe’s hardest-hit country eases back the world’s longest nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Four million people — an […]

“These are not the first times that we’ve had a world exposed to viruses as a result of failures in a Chinese lab. And so, while the intelligence community continues to do its work, they should continue to do that, and verify so that we are certain, I can tell you that there is a […]

FILE PHOTO: Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) Rangers, who are part of the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), secure an area during a foot patrol on the outskirts of the controlled area of the old airport in the coastal town of Kismayu in southern Somalia November 12, 2013. /Reuters The Kenyan government has foiled planned attacks […]

A statue wearing a protective mask at the Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, pictured on May 2, 2020. © Benoit Tessier, REUTERS The number of people who died of coronavirus infection in France increased by 135 to 24,895 on Sunday, the lowest daily increase since March 22, government data showed.  Sunday’s daily tally […]