Eswatini
Eswatini king touts Taiwan drug as virus cure
King Mswati III thanked the Taiwanese president for sending the medication and said the government would "immediately" procure it for the rest of the country.
The Beira coastline in Mozambique is bracing for the arrival of Cyclone Eloise.
The provincial community safety department's spokesperson Joseph Mabuza was killed when a van crashed into his bike on the N4 in December 2018.
Dlamini died on Sunday at a Johannesburg hospital four weeks after he tested positive for the coronavirus.
His deputy Themba Masuku said the PM passed away on Sunday afternoon.
The country's 52-year-old premier, Ambrose Dlamini, announced on 16 November that he had tested positive but that he felt well and was asymptomatic.
The Computer Crime and Cybercrime bill is expected to be tabled in Parliament soon.
Ambrose Dlamini told foreign journalists that countries in the region should have cooperated more closely and leveraged their strength to help smaller countries buy personal protective equipment.
The government there said it's still deciding about whether it should be dropped.
The stimulus package will be earmarked for nearly 100 projects in tourism, agriculture, mining and manufacturing among other sectors.
The country's minister of health Lizzie Nkosi has also confirmed four new cases, bringing the country's total to 123.
The country has embarked on a mass drive to disinfect areas of high traffic, including the market, national court, bus depots, public toilets and police posts in Manzini as well.
The kingdom now has 40 confirmed coronavirus cases while 10 people have since recovered.
The country's minister of health said investigations were being conducted to determine how a woman from Manzini contracted the virus even though she didn’t travel or come into contact with anyone known to be positive.
Minister of Health Lizzie Nkosi said 20 of the contacts had been traced and tested, 11 were negative while nine were waiting for test results.
Health Minister Lizzie Nkosi said the latest case was a woman who had travelled to KwaZulu-Natal.
While the country’s ministry of health said that all its cases were mild, many of them had travelled to South Africa.
Two patients recently returned to the small, land-locked country from Europe while the ministry is investigating how the third patient contracted the virus.
A 33-year-old woman who returned from the United States at the end of last month, and then travelled to Lesotho before going back home to eSwatini, is in self-isolation.