Laurent Amar has tweeted this information to all potential contacts, saying he wants to break the chain of transmission.

ends intro

The French diplomatic mission has been closed as staff are teased for coronavirus.

Consul General Laurent Amar assures contacts on his twitter feed that he will come back stronger.

The Consulate like other European missions in Cape Town has been inundated with nationals taking advantage of the balmy late South African summer trying to find how they will be affected by draconian anti-COVID 19 measures taken by their governments.

They are generally being advised to head home without delay.

A 15-year-old pupil at l’Ecole Français du Cap – the French school in the Mother City – has tested positive with COVID19 after holidaying in France.

The post French Consul General in Cape Town tests positive for COVID 19 appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

The Gaberone Government’s asking the regional grouping SADC and the African Union to condemn what it calls Trump’s irresponsible, racist and reprehensible outburst.

Washington’s Ambassador to Gaborone’s been summoned to tell the Botswana Government whether President Donald Trump numbers the Southern African nation among the countries dismissed with a scatological epithet.

The Botswana statement deplores the derogatory remark from the leader of country with which it has cordial relations.

The White House has not denied Trump made the remark.

Trump himself says in a tweet his language while talking about immigration was strong although he maintains the widely reported foul-mouthed expression was not the one he used.

The post Botswana deplores Donald Trump’s racist remark about African countries appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.