Earlier this week the UN health body  identified Algeria, along with South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Egypt as the African countries where coronavirus was most likely to access the continent.

Algeria’s Health Minister Shamsuddin Shitor says the COVID19 carrier is an Italian man who entered the North African country nine days ago.

He has been quarantined.

Shitor says the coronavirus carrier was identified thanks to Algerian authorities vigilance at all land, sea and air entries into the country.

Another foreign national thought to be Africa’s first coronavirus case was identified in Egypt seven days ago. 

He has since been cleared, say Cairo authorities.

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Southern Africans consumes more than a fifth of the world’s maize output.

It’s like telling Italians to stop eating pasta.

But Zambia’s vice president Inonge Wina insists the staple in Southern African countries should be ditched in favour of more nutritious foods.

Her country and many of its neighbors are in the grip of drought that has severely reduced maize production.

The climate-change related crises has led to 1,7 million Zambians – that’s 18 per cent of the population – suffering severe food insecurity.

The UN-linked Relief Web says 40 percent of  Zambian children under five years are stunted.

Wina advises Zambians to eat more millet, sorghum, cassava and sweet potatoes

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The attack was carried out on the Bardo museum next to the Tunisian parliament as MPs debated anti-terrorism legislation.

Local radio in Tunis’s saying the victims include British, Italian, French and Spanish nationals .

Interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui says it involves two or more terrorists wearing military uniforms and armed with AK 47s

Most of the tourists were evacuated but some are still believed to be inside.

Security forces had entered the museum famed for its collection of antiquities.

Hundreds of tourists were on their way there when the attack began at lunchtime.

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