Japan will launch its first space operations unit within the Air Self-Defense Force on May 18 to monitor threats to Japanese satellites in outer space, ...

The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation’s top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels ...

The coronavirus crisis has sent U.S. unemployment surging to 14.7 percent, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Depression ...

Japan's largest business lobby plans to suggest that member companies introduce a four-day workweek as part of efforts to reduce risks of novel coronavirus infection.A ...

The rest of Japan is scheduled to get theirs by the end of the month — when the emergency is set to end.

Despite legislative attempts to persuade mild and asymptomatic patients to isolate in hotels, most cooperating facilities are nearly empty.

Japan ended in last place after its leaders were rated the worst in a survey of 23 nations and regions.

The release, which marks a significant shift in disclosure policy, details the capital's testing totals, daily infection counts and infection rates.

The current environment surrounding the emergence of COVID-19 has forced people to come up with brand new ways of enjoying time away from work.

How prepared was Japan for the pandemic, and how well can it medically adapt to the emergency going forward?

COVID-19 is spread through respiratory droplets or contact and the virus has also been detected in faeces, saliva and urine

In the coming weeks, media must begin to ask questions and help the public understand where exactly this money is going or should go. Since journalists are not necessarily experts in everything or some of the things, they can leverage their platforms to get experts to explain the issues

The Bugwere cultural institution, the business community and different leaders, inculding MPs, have all donated to support vulnerable locals

Let’s start with the economics. Even if those two had been destined for a happily ever after, where was the rationale for spending Shs 40 million in a day, in their circumstances? To what end? For whose pleasure? Split between the two, Shs40 million would have provided more than enough seed funding for each to build a business and career that they sought, and probably find their soul mates, if they so chose

I have spoken to a number of Members of Parliament. Some say, the President “undressed” them before the electorate

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

Since October last year, Lake Victoria has swallowed up to nearly 50 metres of the shoreline, leaving surrounding communities desperate

Currently, 80 cattle are slaughtered and it is a struggle to find buyers

Musasizi, who was riding a motorcycle, had come to pick up Nagasha who was in Byansi Clinic located along Elgin Street in Masaka town, for a pregnancy test

Covid-19: In discussions about resuscitating the economy, the provision of cheap credit to the working poor has hardly featured. Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi explores some of the measures the government can employ to help out this class of businesses.

[Nation] Eliud Kipchoge, the legend, is leading from the front in distributing relief food to vulnerable athletes in the Rift Valley.

[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.

[New Era] The trial of Affirmative Repositioning (AR) land activist Dimbulukeni 'Dee' Nauyoma has been postponed to 19 May this year.

[The Herald] Zimbabweans have heeded preventative and precautionary measures put in place by President Mnangagwa to contain the spread of Covid-19 and Government is hopeful the number of recorded cases will not continue to rise.

[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.

[Premium Times] The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, said on Friday that many people who tested positive for coronavirus were running away from being taken to isolation centres for treatment.

[Nairobi News] A section of residents of Nairobi county will have to do without water for an indefinite number of days after operations at the Sasumua dam were shud down.

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

[Nyasa Times] Malawi opposition supporters erupted into wild scenes of celebrations on Friday after the Supreme Court on Friday in a unanimous decision upheld an earlier constitutional court ruling that declared President Peter Mutharika was "not duly elected" in a disputed 2019 vote.

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

[This Day] The federal government yesterday raised the alarm that many states in the country may soon run out of bed spaces for COVID-19 patients at their isolation centres due to the increasing number of Nigerians testing positive to Coronavirus.

[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] 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.

[Observer] President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has cautioned the general public to always wear masks whenever they are out of their homes. The president said wearing mask will help combat the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its infection to other people.

[Nation] Zipporah Kioko is the new Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) spokesperson, becoming the first woman officer to hold the position.

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

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

[East African] Somalia has launched a portal through which the public and international donors and partners can get information on how donor money is utilised as a step towards instilling transparency.

[Dalsan Radio] The International Rescue Committee has warned that many cases are going untested and undetected. Somalia has faced decades of violence and cycles of drought and floods, leaving its health care system ill-equipped to respond to this outbreak. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has been preparing for the spread of coronavirus by training health care staff to screen patients for symptoms and safely isolate potential cases.

[Dalsan Radio] The African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM, expresses its heartfelt condolences to the families of those who perished in the plane crash of 4th May, 2020. The aircraft which left Baidoa, had six people on board and was approaching Bardale, south of Somalia and 300km northwest of the capital Mogadishu when it crashed.

[Nation] More than 10 Covid-19 cases recorded in Kenya in the last seven days have been traced to Somalia and Tanzania.

[WHO] The WHO country office and the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Somalia have joined hands under a new collaboration in the country to strengthen operational response activities for COVID-19. The new collaboration aims to accelerate support for the frontline work of WHO in combating COVID-19 in a seemingly vast country where transportation of vital medical supplies and personnel needed for rapid response to the outbreak remain a perpetual challenge owing to suspension of commercial and cargo flights

[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.

[Dalsan Radio] US military operations in four countries in 2019 left 132 civilians dead, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pentagon.

[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.

Former Leeds United man Ian Harte believes his old club will take legal action if they are denied a chance to play in the Premier League next season due to the Covid-19 crisis.

He was a bull as they saw it and a wild bull at that, but he was theirs now, ready to knock spots off the m. Alan Mangan first heard the news in Gran Canaria, initially presuming it just mischief. Páidí Ó Sé, that Kerry institution, was coming to manage Westmeath, all the way from Ventry. But the hullabaloo aroused at home soon caught a persuasive wind and, within hours of landing in Las Palmas, three of them were exploring options for early flights home.

Efforts to fast-track the opening of pubs next month have been delivered a body blow by Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan.