Efforts include trimming of non-core expenditures such as travel and trainings.

SGR allocated almost half of the development budget of the Ministry of Works.

EAC members have over time slowly digressed from commitments.

Kenya reports a total of 649 cases, 207 recoveries and 30 deaths.

Now is not the time to demonize and defund the WHO.

Managing the COVID-19 crisis goes way beyond the powers of central banks.

There's a paucity of accurate, practical community-level information about the pandemic.

The coronavirus crisis has exposed grave vulnerabilities in the nation's medical services.

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The structures "nakute mo ii desu" and "hitsuyō wa arimasen" let people know they're not obliged to do something.

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Game-maker sold 21 million of the console units in the year ended March, beating its own estimate and expectations of roughly 20 million.

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They called for larger-scale research on critically-ill patients to ascertain if the drug combo could be a viable treatment for them too

Sectors such as manufacturing, technology, mechanisation of agriculture, mining and oil exploration shall be managed by our own highly skilled citizens and the soaring unemployment shall be harmonised

Treatments can only help with symptoms while you wait for your immune system to fight off the virus. By staying in lockdown while our ‘scientists’ study and the rest of us ‘pray’ for deliverance, we might have been boxing ourselves into a dead end alley. What if Magufuli is right? That the cure ought not to kill the patient?

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[News24Wire] *Note: Due to different reporting times, the provincial numbers will differ to the national numbers for given provinces by a few cases per day.

[News24Wire] As the Western Cape ramps up its screenings and testing for Covid-19 as confirmed cases rise, the ANC in the province is calling for the return to Level 5 lockdown to be considered.

[The Herald] Johannesburg -Khama Billiat is heading for arguably his worst season in the South African Absa Premiership football and apart from injuries hampering his form, there have been questions about the player's mentality.

[WHO] Geneva -On 8 May 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly officially declared: 'The world and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox.'

[New Zimbabwe] THE ravaging COVID-19 pandemic has blocked police investigators from travelling to South Africa to hunt for evidence linking Marry Mubaiwa to charges of attempting to murder her now estranged husband Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, a Harare court heard Friday.

[Daily Maverick] With more than 42 school days lost to the coronavirus crisis, educators in Western Cape have been counting costs and making plans to resume classes.

[WHO] Geneva -Good morning, good afternoon and good evening.

[SudaNow] Sudan Ministry of Health announced on Friday 181 new cases of COVID-19 and seven deaths.

[Daily Trust] Nigeria has confirmed 386 new cases of COVID-19, taking the country's total to 3,912.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis -Four more cases of Coronavirus contamination have been confirmed as of May 8, 2020, out of 1,453 screenings carried out, bringing the total number of cases of infection since the beginning of the epidemic to 1,030, the Ministry of Public Health announced Friday.

[Premium Times] Nigeria, on Friday, recorded 386 cases of COVID-19, its highest daily figure since the country recorded its first case in February.

[Premium Times] In February, PREMIUM TIMES exclusively spoke with Chris Elias, the President of the Global Development Division of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Paulin Basinga, the foundation's country director, on the role the foundation played in the eradication of wild polio in Nigeria and a range of other developmental issues.

[Govt of SA] As of today, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is 8895. Case Data

[Capital FM] Nairobi -Kenya and Somalia have agreed to conduct a joint investigation on the downing of a Kenyan cargo plane in Bardale region of Baidoa on Monday.

[Shabelle] The Somali health ministry on Monday confirmed 34 new cases of a novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections to 756.

[DW] Kenya has demanded an investigation into a fatal crash of a humanitarian aircraft which killed all people on board.

[Nation] Captain Mabruk Islam Sherman spoke to his wife and three children around noon, informing them of his trip to Somalia.

[Shabelle] The Somali health ministry on Tuesday confirmed 79 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections to 835.

[U.S. House] Washington, DC -Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) led a letter to General Stephen J. Townsend today calling for increased transparency and public accountability of civilian causalities from the United States Defense Department's Africa Command (AFRICOM). The letter was signed by Rep. Adam Smith, Chair, House Committee on Armed Services; Rep. Adam Schiff, Chair, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Rep. Eliot Engel, Chair, House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Rep. André Carson, Chair, Subcommittee on Counterterrori

[Africom] As part of the command's commitment to transparency, U.S. Africa Command is implementing a quarterly report on the status of ongoing and completed civilian casualty allegations and assessments. This initiative was directed by U.S. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command, to increase transparency regarding civilian casualty allegations that are reported to the command while demonstrating the U.S. military's constant commitment to minimizing collateral damage in the pursuit of

[East African] Somalia and Djibouti's covid-19 cases could become the new worry for regional neighbours already fighting their local battles against the scary virus disease.

[Shabelle] The African Union and the UN have welcomed the decision by leaders from Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia to investigate Monday's plane crash in southwest Somalia which killed six people on board.

[Nation] Mogadishu -Somalia's confirmed cases of Covid-19 were on Thursday night hurtling towards 1,000 after 55 more people contracted the virus disease.

[Dalsan Radio] The United States Embassy in Mogadishu calls on the Somali Government and people to allow and encourage transparent reporting on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate the critical efforts to protect and preserve the health and safety of the people of Somalia.

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