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By Saidu Bah FREETOWN, Nov 26, 2023 (AFP) – Armed clashes erupted in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Sunday after what the government said was an attack on a military armoury, as it imposed an immediate national curfew. Sierra Leone, an English-speaking country in West Africa, has been going through a political crisis following presidential and general elections in June this year. Witnesses told AFP they heard gunshots and explosions in the city’s Wilberforce district, […]
JOS, Nigeria, July 10, 2023 (AFP) – Nigeria has imposed a 24-hour curfew in a north-central region after more tit-for-tat attacks killed at least another nine people. The move, introduced Sunday in Mangu district in Plateau State, followed two months of clashes between nomadic herders and pastoral farmers that community leaders say have left more than 200 dead. Intercommunal violence often flares in Plateau, which straddles the dividing line between Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north and […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s capital New Delhi will lock down over the weekend as authorities grapple with a fresh surge in coronavirus cases, partly fuelled by the fast-spreading Omicron variant. The country was battered by a devastating Covid outbreak last year that overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums, but daily case numbers had since then stayed reasonably low until last week. Delhi’s new restrictions came the same day the sprawling megacity’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, […]
(Eagle News) — For the first time since the pandemic began, the curfew in Metro Manila is lifted starting Thursday, Nov. 4. The Metro Manila Council (MMC) approved a resolution (MMDA Resolution No. 21-25) which lifted the prevailing standardized and unified curfew hours from 12 midnight to 4 a.m. This will “complement the adjustment of mall operating hours to provide both mall goers and mall employees ample time to get home,” the Metro Manila […]
(Eagle News) — Curfew hours in Metro Manila will be shortened starting June 15, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chair Benhur Abalos said. According to Abalos, instead of the usual 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. curfew hours, curfew hours will be from 12 midnight to 4 a.m. He said the new hours will be specified in an MMDA resolution to be issued either on Monday or Tuesday. He said the shortened curfew hours were to help […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — France plans to lift travel restrictions and ease a nationwide curfew on May 2 on expectations that daily Covid-19 cases will soon begin falling, a source close to the presidency told AFP. President Emmanuel Macron also intends to stick to a goal of allowing restaurants to serve patrons outdoors from mid-May, while also reopening cinemas, theatres and museums with reduced capacity, the source said. Non-food businesses will also open their doors […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — California on Thursday imposed a curfew across much of the state to stem the rapid rise of coronavirus cases. Governor Gavin Newsom said the 10:00 pm to 5:00 am stay-at-home order will take effect Saturday evening and remain in force through December 21. “The virus is spreading at a pace we haven’t seen since the start of this pandemic and the next several days and weeks will be […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Philadelphia was put under a curfew on Friday for the second time this week and National Guard troops were deployed in the US city after days of unrest following the police killing of a Black man. The city, the largest in the state of Pennsylvania, has seen looting, protests and clashes with police since Monday’s fatal shooting of 27-year-old Walter Wallace, which was captured on video posted to […]
by AFP Bureaus MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide topped 18 million on Monday with the illness continuing its march, after Australia’s second-largest city imposed a curfew to halt the spread. Six months after the World Health Organization declared a global emergency, the virus has killed more than 687,000 people since it first emerged in China late last year, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources. Fresh clusters […]
(Eagle News)–The Muntinlupa City government has imposed a 24-hour curfew in a community in Barangay Poblacion to prevent the increase of COVID-19 cases there. In an advisory, the local government said the curfew in Southville 3 would be effective today, July 4, and end on July 17, based on Resolution No. 29 approved by the barangay council. Only the following are allowed outside their residences: -those in emergencies -those purchasing essential items with quarantine passes […]
(Eagle News) — Cavite residents will still have a curfew even after the enhanced community quarantine is lifted in the province on May 15. According to Governor Jonvic Remulla, curfew hours for those aged 12 and below are from 6 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. For those aged 13 to 18, curfew hours start at 7 p.m. unless they have been authorized by their schools or workplaces. If the resident is self-employed and falls within this […]
CONAKRY, Guinea (AFP) — Guinean President Alpha Conde has announced a night-time curfew and restrictions on movement out of the capital to help curb coronavirus, according to a decree read on national television. In addition to the 9pm-5am (2100-0500 GMT) lockdown, “the movement of people from Conakry to the interior of the country is forbidden” except for special exemptions, said the decree, issued late Monday. The impoverished West African state has officially recorded 20 cases […]
