Kenya is decongesting its prisons to prevent overcrowding as a way to curtail the spread of coronavirus in the country.

Members of Uganda's internationally known Watoto Church children's choir who just returned from Europe are among 11 new reported cases of coronavirus in the country, President Yoweri Museveni has said.

Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde has granted pardon to more than 4,000 prisoners in efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country.

Doctors and nurses in Zimbabwe are striking to protest the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers in the nation's hospitals, their unions said.

The bodies of 64 male migrants were discovered Tuesday in a sealed shipping container at a checkpoint in Tete, Mozambique, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM).

South Africa will enforce a three-week lockdown over coronavirus, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Monday.

Health officials in Nigeria have issued a warning over chloroquine after they said three people in the country overdosed on the drug, in the wake of President Trump's comments about using it to treat coronavirus.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced a ban on all public gatherings including weddings, church and Muslim services for the next 32 days though the country has recorded no case of the novel coronavirus.

How do you get people to take personal hygiene seriously in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic? Music and dance.