Tag: African countries

While progress has been made in Africa in terms of curbing the spread of coronavirus, the World Health Organization is calling on governments to step up readiness and response measures, ...

With novel coronavirus having thrown many African economies into a deep freeze, several governments are facing pressure to ease restrictions and reopen economies amid rapidly increasing cases of infections across ...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund on Tuesday approved nearly $8.9 million in grant funding to bolster COVID-19-related control measures in six Southern African Development Community (SADC) ...

Many countries in Africa, which registered its first COVID-19 case in mid-February and experienced a subsequent surge in numbers in March, swiftly began to implement measures to prevent the spread ...

The continent accounts for less than 5% of the 7.6 million confirmed infections globally, but cases are rising rapidly as the disease takes hold in several cities where overcrowding makes ...

Casablanca – Ninety-nine African intellectuals have signed an open letter to leaders on the continent, urging them to look critically at the global crisis that COVID-19 induced and to use ...

Fear, isolation and stigma are impacting the mental health of Africans during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, scientists say. For a continent with a history of epidemics such as HIV and Ebola, these ...

“Clean up the foreign trash!”. “Don’t turn our hometown into an international rubbish dump.” “This is China, not Nigeria!” Resembling the anti-migrant racist hatred you frequently see on UK social ...

On April 17, a joint proposal on Africa and China Working Together to Fight Against COVID-19 was released in six languages online. More than 50 well-known scholars, think tank leaders ...