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Cameroonian among Board Members Appointed for the New Global Independent ‘Oversight Board’ for Facebook and Instagram Content

May 8, 2020 Africa, English, Top 5

Content provided by APO Group. CNBC Africa provides content from APO Group as a service to its readers, but does not edit the articles it publishes. CNBC Africa is not responsible for the content provided by APO Group. CNBC Africa | Today, Julie Owono, a digital rights advocate and Executive …

Cameroon Eases Coronavirus Lockdown, But Neighbors Block Access

May 2, 2020 Africa, English, Top 2

YAOUNDE, CAMEROON VOA | Cameroon has eased restrictions put in place to curb COVID-19, which has caused 1,900 confirmed infections and 63 deaths in the country — the highest in Central Africa. But the return to normal operations for restaurants and public transportation comes as Cameroon’s neighbors have refused to …

Coronavirus shutdowns keep African elite from seeking medical care abroad

April 5, 2020 Africa, English, Top 24

FOX – The Associated Press | In this Aug. 19, 2017, file photo released by the Nigeria State House, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, center, walks upon his arrival at the airport in Abuja, Nigeria, after returning from more than three months in London for medical treatment. The coronavirus pandemic could …

Pape Diouf: Former Marseille president dies after contracting coronavirus

April 1, 2020 Africa, English, Top Comments Off on Pape Diouf: Former Marseille president dies after contracting coronavirus

BBC | Former Marseille president Pape Diouf has died aged 68 after contracting coronavirus, the club have announced. The Senegalese was president between 2005 and 2009 when Marseille finished second in Ligue 1 twice and reached two French Cup finals. They went on to win a first French league title …

Covid-19 : la BEAC suspend son opération principale sur le marché monétaire (officiel)

March 25, 2020 Africa, Business, Français 1

APAnews | La Banque des États de l’Afrique centrale (BEAC) a annoncé, par voie de communiqué parvenu mercredi à APA la suspension, «pour cause de crise sanitaire actuelle liée à la pandémie du Covid-19 sur la liquidité du système bancaire» sous-régional, qu’elle n’interviendra pas sur le marché monétaire au titre …

Africa sees ‘extremely rapid evolution’ of pandemic, UN says

March 20, 2020 Africa, English, Top 3

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More African countries closed their borders Thursday as the coronavirus’ local spread threatened to turn the continent of 1.3 billion people into an alarming new front for the pandemic. Africa is seeing an “extremely rapid evolution,” the World Health Organization’s regional chief, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, told reporters. …