Lifestyle & Society

Residents of Swalala, outside Hazyview in Mpumalanga, South Africa have broken lockdown rules to steal meat from a truck that was involved in an accident.According to the residents, they pounced after the meat delivery truck rammed into a tree...

Gabon's government on Friday banned the sale and eating of bats and pangolins, which are suspected of sparking the novel coronavirus in China where they are highly prized in traditional medicine.The novel coronavirus is believed to have come from...

Kenya’s Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe has criticised Kenyans for their mockery of two Kenyans who recovered from coronavirus.Kenyans online have criticised the announcement of the two recoveries on Wednesday – during a press conference – saying it was a...

A gay rights leader in Uganda says 20 members of the local LGBT community have been detained after police raided their shelter and accused them of violating coronavirus-related social distancing measures.“It is evident that they were arrested because of...

The bullet struck the 13-year-old as he stood on the balcony of his family’s home with his siblings. Below, police officers moved through the crowded neighborhood, enforcing Kenya’s new coronavirus curfew.Go upstairs, the children’s mother had shouted minutes earlier,...

Dozens of Zimbabweans stand close to each other in a long queue, patiently waiting at a borehole in Harare's middle-class Mabelreign suburb to collect water.While this is a daily sight, this week things are different.The water-short southern African country...

A policeman and security guard has been arrested in South Africa, for killing a man during the coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, South African police are quoted as saying to Reuters news agency.Police officers had encountered some men drinking in...

The authorities in the South African city of Durban have freed 14 workers who had been "locked up in a factory since Monday", a local government minister said.They also arrested the owner of the business.The workers "were forced...

Ugandan police said on Friday that two men were in hospital after being shot for violating restrictions on transport in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus.Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has urged people to stay home but has...

Police in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam are holding a couple for allegedly spreading false information that coronavirus is a hoax from government.Dar es Salaam's police chief Lazaro Mambosasa said that the husband and wife ridiculed the government...