Photo: Credit Reuters The United Nations food agency has negotiated a humanitarian corridor to keep food aid flowing in southern Africa after many countries shut their borders to stop the spread of the coronavirus, an official said on Thursday. Up to 45 million people in southern Africa face hunger following a devastating drought and two

The U.S. announced on Thursday it will provide $7 million to help Somalia deal with the COVID-19 outbreak. “The U.S. Government is providing $7 million in humanitarian and health assistance to #Somalia for #COVID19 response,” read a tweet by the Somalia chapter of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). “This assistance will primarily

Photo/Somali Times The Ethiopian colony says it will not stop flying Ethiopian Airlines to Hargeisa airport after it faces two cases of Coronavirus. Somaliland continues and it will not stop flights from Ethiopian Airlines where the disease is prevalent, and it is believed that it has led to cases of Coronavirus-related cases in Somaliland. Somaliland’s

In this Monday, March 2, 2020 photo, Israel’s Health Minister Yaakov Litzman delivers a statement as he visits a makeshift tent for quarantined coronavirus voters in Tel Aviv, Israel. Litzman, who has had frequent contact with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials, has the new coronavirus, the Health Ministry announced Thursday. (AP Photo/Ariel

A man wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the coronavirus walks past a Communist Party flag along a street in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on March 31, 2020. (Noel Celis/AFP) By TOI staff and AP A US intelligence report submitted last week to the White House claims that Chinese officials

Kenya is set for an additional Sh5.2 billion ($50 million) credit from the World Bank Thursday to support the fight against Covid-19 as confirmed cases rose to hit 81. Health Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said that the credit facility will increase the government’s pool of funds to finance production of sanitisers, protective gear for medical personnel

Tedros Adhanom, director general of the World Health Organization, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, January 28, 2020. Naohiko Hatta/Pool via REUTERS Beijing has ramped up its diplomatic push into the Pacific, pledging coronavirus aid and medical advice, although its efforts

Former Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein Nur Adde has died in London, the capital of Britain. Nur Adde has been suffering from a rare case of Coronavirus that has spread to many countries around the world, killing thousands, including Somalis. The death of the former Prime Minister Nur Adde has been confirmed by some

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Americans to brace for a “rough two-week period” ahead as the White House released new projections that there could

A funeral vehicle stands in front of a morgue to carry a coffin of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victim to a cemetery in Istanbul, Turkey March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas President Tayyip Erdogan is under growing pressure from unions and the opposition for a lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus, but insists that Turkey