Bloomberg On April 2, Zimbabwean finance minister Mthuli Ncube wrote to the International Monetary Fund and other leading multilateral lenders pleading for help. More than half of the population needs food aid, the economy collapsed even before the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic and the country’s health service is in tatters, he said. To date, he’s had no response. ...

Bloomberg China’s Ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, said British politicians who have called for a re-setting of the ties between the two nations risk poisoning the relationship. Anti-China rhetoric is in danger of undermining international solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, he said in a webinar on Tuesday. The ambassador’s comment is a thinly veiled warning to ...

Bloomberg Rising cases of unexplained deaths have put Nigeria’s second-biggest city of Kano at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Africa’s most populous country. Local news reports citing cemetery workers that emerged last month revealed a spike in mysterious deaths in the city with an estimated 8 million residents. Kano state Governor Abdullahi Ganduje initially blamed ailments such as ...