Coronavirus: Ghana’s president grants amnesty to over 800 prisoners
The move aims to decongest Ghana’s prisons during the coronavirus outbreak.
President Akufo-Addo grants amnesty to over eight hundred prisoners. The freed prisoners include first time offenders who have served half of their sentences, seriously ill prisoners and three aged prisoners.
Plus, a Tunisian factory chooses a self-imposed lockdown to produce protective gear for its country against Covid-19.
Also, how small businesses are coping in South Africa after the three-week lockdown, due to coronavirus.
(Photo: President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo. Credit: May/NurPhoto/Getty Images)
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