Dakar Buckles Under Lockdown Pressures
Protesters set tyres on fire and threw stones at security forces on Wednesday night during protests against a nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed almost three months ago because of the coronavirus pandemic. The unrest in Senegal’s capital followed similar actions in the holy city of Touba a night earlier, where crowds of people torched an ambulance, […]
Boosting Africa’s Testing Capabilities
African countries have secured 90 million test kits for the novel coronavirus for the next six months, a regional disease control body said on Thursday, urging states and donors to boost testing capabilities on the continent as quickly as possible. “We needed to increase our testing very quickly to about 10 to 20 million tests […]
