Africa
Bhutanese PM, delegation members start 21-day quarantine
Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering returned to his country on Thursday and started a 21-day mandatory quarantine.
Other delegation members are also undergoing 21-day mandatory quarantine starting on Thursday.
The Bhutanese Prime Minister drove himself from the airport to the quarantine facility in the car that was parked at the airport, according to his office.
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The delegation was given escort to the respective facilities in the quarantine pool vehicles.
Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes Tanzania's first woman president
Samia Suluhu Hassan made history Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president after the death of her controversial predecessor, John Magufuli, who denied that COVID-19 is a problem in the East African country.
Gunmen abduct 30 students from school in northwest Nigeria
Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped at least 30 students just weeks after a similar attack in the region, authorities said Friday.
Death toll from explosions in Equatorial Guinea rises to 98
The death toll from a series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea rose by dozens to at least 98 killed after more bodies were recovered, the government said Tuesday.
Zimbabwe's women battle gender discrimination amid pandemic
There are very few female truck drivers in Zimbabwe, but Molly Manatse doesn't like to be singled out for her gender.
Death toll in bombing in Somalia's capital rises to 20
The death toll has risen to at least 20 after a vehicle packed with explosives rammed into a popular restaurant in Somalia’s capital on Friday night, with 30 wounded, the government news agency reported Saturday.
10 killed in South Sudan plane crash
Ten people were killed in a commercial plane crash in South Sudan's Jonglei state on Tuesday evening, a senior government official said Wednesday.
Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed
Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country's northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, ending the latest in a spate of such kidnappings in the West African nation.
Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state’s governor said Tuesday.
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abduction
Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation.