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Lucara Diamond Corp said it had recovered an unbroken 549 carat white stone from its Karowe Mine in Botswana

The government of Botswana on Wednesday said five suspected cases of Coronavirus in the country have tested negative.

Nigerian police have arrested in five people in Abuja for causing a scare over the deadly coronavirus. One of the suspects said that their action was merely a prank about the Coronavirus and was not intended to cause any sort of chaos.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Corona Virus as a public health emergency of international concern. The WHO says this is now a global outbreak with 98 cases reported in 19 countries outside of China.

The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday confirmed the first case of the new Chinese virus that causes flu-like symptoms in the Mideast. The UAE’s state-run WAM news agency made the announcement citing the Health Ministry.

Africa's first case of the Coronavirus has been detected in Zambia. This is according to Health Department Minister, Zweli Mkhize, who briefed the media on South Africa's readiness to detect and contain the virus on Wednesday.

China on Tuesday reported 25 more deaths from a new viral disease, raising the total to at least 106, as the U.S. government prepared to fly Americans out of the city at the centre of the outbreak.

Twenty-six words unique to Nigeria have made it to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).  According to OED, the  majority of the new additions were "borrowings from Nigerian languages or unique Nigerian coinages

BERLIN (AP) Switzerland has minted a gold coin so small you'd need to look very closely to see Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue at you.State-owned Swissmint said Thursday that the 2.96mm gold coin is the smallest in the world.It weighs 0