Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim that a Cameroonian man living in China was cured of the novel coronavirus “because he has black skin”. Although a Cameroonian student was Read More..

 In a “good month”, about 100 girls will be brought by their families to Halima Hirsi’s* underground clinic in Nairobi to be subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). Families come here from Read More..

One of every six Africans is Nigerian, according to widely cited calculations, but that may underestimate Nigeria’s share of the continent’s population. Many of the country’s 200 million people live Read More..

Malawi President Peter Mutharika has fired the country’s army commander, Major General Andrew Lapken Namathanga, whose men have in recent months protected demonstrators protesting against fraudulent elections that returned the Read More..

The new coronavirus, declared a pandemic on March 11 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) because of its global spread, and with more than 170,000 confirmed cases, according to the Read More..

A viral message supposedly from Unicef – the United Nations Children’s Fund – carries several claims about the new coronavirus that causes the disease Covid-19. These range from the “large” Read More..