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A Tunisian police robot patrols along Avenue Habib Bourguiba in the centre of the capital Tunis on April 1, 2020, as a means of enforcing a nationwide lockdown to combat the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. - The locally-built robots are remotely operated and equipped with infrared and thermal imaging cameras, in addition to a sound and light alarm system. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Tunisia 'robocop' enforces lockdown
A woman reacts as she receives a flue vaccine while a Gauteng Health Department Official gets ready before collecting samples during a door-to-door COVID-19 coronavirus testing drive in Yeoville, Johannesburg, on April 3, 2020. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

French scientists remarks spark a storm of criticism
An aerial view shows empty streets in Lagos on March 31, 2020. - Lagos was deserted on March 31, 2020, after Nigeria locked down its economic hub and shuttered its capital Abuja, in the continent's latest effort to brake the juggernaut of COVID-19 coronavirus.†Businesses were closed, markets abandoned and streets empty as the usually chaotic megacity of 20 million, along with the capital Abuja, shuddered to a halt on the first full day of a two-week shutdown. (Photo by Pierre FAVENNEC / AFP)

Millions of Nigerians enter lockdown as Africa tries to contain coronavirus
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Boko Haram kill nearly 100 Chadian troops
An empty street in the Algerian capital Algiers on March 20, 2020. - A total of 82 cases of coronavirus COVID-19 have been confirmed in Algeria, according to the health ministry. An 83rd case was detected in an Italian national, who has since returned to Italy. Two more virus deaths were registered in Algeria yesterday, the health ministry said, bringing to eight the number of fatalities from COVID-19 since the first case was registered in the country at the end of February. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)

Algeria streets empty but protesters vow to 'keep flame burning'
People wearing face masks are seen leaving the funeral of the first victim of the COVID-19 coronavirus in sub-saharian Africa, in Ouagadougou, on March 18, 2020. - Burkina Faso on March 18, 2020, recorded one death from the new COVID-19 coronavirus, the first in sub-Saharan Africa, which is still little affected by the pandemic, even though the number of cases is increasing rapidly. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP)

Sub-Saharan Africa records the first coronavirus death
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After head start on virus, Africa begins clampdown
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South Africa bus accident kills 25
This photo taken on February 20, 2020 shows two staff members crossing an empty road as they deliver vegetables to a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. - The death toll in China from the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic rose to 2,236 on February 21 after 118 more people died, most of them in the hard-hit epicentre province of Hubei, the government said. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

'Traumatized' Africans stranded in coronavirus-hit China cry for help
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Committee strips Kuwaiti citizenship of 1,647 individuals
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Sons of Yusuf: Visionary Kuwaiti brothers revolutionizing Arabian Gulf sound
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Oxford Academy School students pose for a photo with their Kuwait Times copies.
Oxford Academy School students visit Kuwait Times and Kuwait News
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Municipal Councilmember Aliaa Al-Farsi
Municipal Council environment committee urges urgent reforms for Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh
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NEW YORK: Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped banana entitled "Comedian" is on display during a media preview at Sotheby's on Nov 8, 2024. - AFP
Banana taped to wall ‘artwork’ sells for $6.2m