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Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
June 13: 24 new cases from quarantined returnees
\tTwenty four patients (24) were diagnosed positive for COVID-19 today in tests carried out for individuals who had completed their quarantine time at Adibara Quarantine Center – Gash Barka Region, Forto Sawa Sub-zone.
Ministry of Health
Asmara
13 June 2020
June 8: Nationals repatriated as new case is recorded
\tEritrea has repatriated over 250 stranded nationals from across the world, information minister Yemane Meskel disclosed on Tuesday.
The statement continues: “The positive preliminary achievement obtained so far is the outcome of the rigorous efforts undertaken to put in quarantine – within the overall GOE strategy of prevention – all the nationals that returned home in the past two months through air, land and sea travel as well as their immediate contacts in cases where this was necessary.
April 18, 2020: Eritrea president likens COVID-19 to sudden war
\tEritrean president Isaias Afwerki has delivered his first public address on the coronavirus pandemic since the country recorded index case on March 21.
As of April 18, the Eritrea COVID-19 situation report had 35 confirmed cases, all currently under treatment – meaning the country had not recorded any recovery or death.
There are now more than over 390,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when. As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.
SUGGESTED READING: Africa’s COVID-19 deaths pass 100,000 mark
Major African stats: June 30 at 7:00 GMT:
Confirmed cases = 393,232
Active cases = 196,427
Recoveries = 186,925
Number of deaths = 9,880
Countries in alphabetical order
Algeria – 13,571
Angola – 276
Benin – 1,187
Botswana – 175
Burkina Faso – 959
Burundi – 170
Cameroon – 12,592
Cape Verde – 1,165
Central African Republic – 3,613
Chad – 866
Comoros – 272
Congo-Brazzaville – 1,087
DR Congo – 6,939
Djibouti – 4,656
Egypt – 66,754
Equatorial Guinea – 2,001
Eritrea – 191
Eswatini – 795
Ethiopia – 5,846
Gabon – 5,394
(The) Gambia – 47
Ghana – 17,351
Guinea – 5,351
Guinea-Bissau – 1,654
Ivory Coast – 9,1214
Kenya – 6,190
Lesotho – 27
Liberia – 770
Libya – 802
Madagascar – 2,138
Malawi – 1,152
Mali – 2,173
Mauritania – 4,237
Mauritius – 341
Morocco – 12,290
Mozambique – 883
Namibia – 196
Niger – 1,075
Nigeria- 25,133
Rwanda – 1,001
Sao Tome and Principe – 713
Senegal – 6,698
Seychelles – 77
Sierra Leone – 1,450
Somalia – 2,904
South Africa – 144,264
South Sudan – 1,989
Sudan – 9,257
Tanzania – 509
Togo – 643
Tunisia – 1,172
Uganda – 870
Zambia – 1,568
Zimbabwe – 574
SUGGESTED READING: rolling coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in Africa II
Nigeria's top police official on Saturday ordered the immediate mobilization of all officers to ``reclaim the public space from criminal elements masquerading as protesters'' after days of peaceful demonstrations over police abuses and then violent unrest that left at least 69 people dead.
\t The police order could further heighten tensions in Africa's most populous country after its worst turmoil in years. Nigeria's inspector general of police, M.A. Adamu, ordered colleagues to ``dominate the public space'' while announcing that enough is enough, a statement said.
\t Nigerians on Tuesday evening watched in horror as soldiers fired on a peaceful crowd of mostly youthful demonstrators singing the national anthem in the country's largest city, Lagos, with Amnesty International reporting at least 12 killed.
\t Some dismayed Nigerians then criticized President Muhammadu Buhari for not mentioning the killings and instead warning citizens against ``undermining national security.''
On Saturday, Nigerians living in the United Kingdom marched through London to condemn the shooting of people protesting police brutality. Demonstrations have also been in the US and South Africa.
The government has insisted that the protests, while well-intentioned, were hijacked by thugs who looted and burned vehicles and businesses in the two days after the soldiers opened fire.
\t Buhari has said 51 civilians were killed, along with 11 police officers and seven soldiers.
\t The scenes in Nigeria have struck a chord with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, and the shootings by soldiers sparked immediate international condemnation.
\t By not taking action against security forces, some Nigerians have warned, the president could inspire further abuses.
Some business owners took advantage of the relative calm to open. Others were out to inspect the damage to their premises.
\t The new police order came even as a 24-hour curfew loosened for the first time Saturday in Lagos, a city of some 20 million where glittering wealth and grinding poverty are in sharp contrast, inflaming grievances over inequality and corruption.
\t The police inspector general ``enjoins law-abiding citizens not to panic but rather join forces with police ... to protect their communities from the criminal elements,'' the statement said.
\t Elsewhere in Lagos, some youth took to the streets again Saturday, but this time to clean up some of the debris after the turmoil. Charred vehicles remained in some parts of the city.
\t ``Alot of harm has happened to people's business and our heart goes out to them,'' said one volunteer, Monica Dede.
\t As for the way forward in Nigeria, she said, ``we will still be heard, we will not be shut up, we will definitely push for what we believe in as the youths of Nigeria. We are part of the system, we are part of this governance.''
