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More than 82 million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Forty percent of people in Nigeria live in poverty, figures published by the statistics office on Monday showed, highlighting the low levels of wealth in a country that has Africa’s biggest economy. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in a report ...

Press freedom watchdogs say Zimbabwe’s government continues to stifle the media, despite promises by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to relax restrictions. Kudzanai Musengi was arrested recently as he tried to record police enforcing the lockdown rules imposed by the government to contain the coronavirus. Police said Musengi was filming them without a valid accreditation card. The government media commission has said ...

Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced a 100 % tax relief for persons earning gross monthly income of up to Ksh. 24,000 (about Shs880,000) as the country seeks to protect its citizens from the effects of coronavirus. Mr Kenyatta also announced that senior government officials such as President, Deputy President, Cabinet Secretaries, Chief Administrative Secretaries and Principal Secretaries have offered ...

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto have cut their salaries by 80 percent in a bid to free-up monies to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Kenyatta made this known in a speech from Statehouse in Nairobi. Kenyatta also said that Cabinet Secretaries and Chief Administrative Secretaries will take 30 per cent pay cuts, while Principal Secretaries will have their salaries reduced by ...

In our series of letters from African journalists, South African filmmaker and writer Serusha Govender reports on the growing anger fuelled by a spate of child murders. Passing by Cape Town’s Parliament Square earlier this month, I caught sight of Fadiel Adams camped outside on the final days of a hunger strike. This was a father making a desperate stand ...

Health experts in Canada have revealed that persons who have recovered from the dreaded coronavirus are more than those that have lost their lives. According to a report on globalnews.ca, out of the over 121,000 recorded cases of the pandemic, about 66,000 have been healed whilst about 4,400 have died. This report comes at a time there is seeming tension in ...

The EU says it will pay €2,000 (£1,770; $2,225) each to migrants in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands willing to go back to their home countries. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the scheme in Athens on Thursday. It was agreed with the Greek government. She said it was temporary – open for one month only – and ...

A 13-year-old girl with albinism is leading a campaign to make sure girls in Tanzania complete their schooling. Joyce Simon says her parents wanted her to deliberately fail her exams so that she wouldn’t continue her education. They feared for her safety in school because she has albinism. But people in her area Chamwino district of Dodoma say other parents ...

A base hosting US and UK troops in Iraq has been hit in a rocket attack, US military officials say. The attack was on the Taji military camp north of Baghdad. The US sources said an American soldier, an American contractor and a British soldier were killed but this has not been officially confirmed. Tension has been high since the ...

The benefits of gender equality are not just for women and girls, but “for everyone whose lives will be changed by a fairer world”, the chief of UN Women said in her message for International Women’s Day (IWD) at UN Headquarters on Friday, being celebrated in New York, ahead of the official day. As a “massive year for gender equality”, ...