Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday recorded 182 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number to 8,915. The NCDC, on its official Twitter handle, said that as at Thursday 6,064 cases are active. It noted that 2,592 persons have been discharged while [...]Full text...

Flacq, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister, Mr Pravind Jugnauth, on Thursday, said that if Mauritius has recorded no new locally transmitted positive case of COVID-19 (coronavirus) for more than a month, it is largely due to the dedication of healthcare personnel, as well as to the treatment administered to [...]Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The victims of the former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre have yet to receive any reparations four years after his historic atrocity conviction in Senegal, human rights advocates said today. On 30 May, 2016, Habré was convicted of crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture, including sexual violence and rape, [...]Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Unless countries across the world act together now, the COVID-19 pandemic will cause “unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Thursday at a virtual high-level meeting on financing for development.  Painting a picture of 60 million pushed into extreme poverty; famine of [...]Full text...