May 29, 2020
Africa: Despite 53,000 Recoveries, Continent Still Battles COVID-19 Infection Rate
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As of May 29, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 129,624. Read more »
May 28, 2020
Africa: Over 120,000 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases on the Continent
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As of May 28, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 124,846. Read more »
May 27, 2020
Africa: Total Number of COVID-19 Cases on Continent Nears 120,000
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As of May 27, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 119,766. Read more »
Africa: Women and Children Will Pay For This Pandemic Unless We Act [guest column]
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Wherever COVID-19 strikes, it magnifies unfairness and inequality. In every nation and every community touched by the virus, hard-won progress for women, newborns and young people… Read more »
May 26, 2020
Africa: How Africa's Anti-Suicide Laws Support The Opposite [guest column]
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Africa may have driven out colonial occupiers generations ago, but some of the laws they passed remain stubbornly in place. For instance, in at least eight African countries like… Read more »
Africa: Total of COVID-19 Cases Now Over 115,000
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As of May 26, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 116,045. Read more »
Africa: How Urban Mobility Can Come Back Stronger in a Post-Pandemic World [guest column]
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With much of Africa currently in or beginning to emerge from COVID-19 restrictions, city dwellers have abandoned their typical travel habits. Where they once squeezed into shared… Read more »
May 25, 2020
Africa: How You Can Get In For Africa During the COVID-19 Pandemic [interview]
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The goal of #INFORAFRICA is to deliver preventive and life-saving messages across the continent, as well as supporting initiatives which fight the disease, create a positive impact… Read more »
Africa: Over 110,000 Covid-19 Cases Across Continent
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As of May 25, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 111,825. Read more »
May 24, 2020
Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across the Continent Rise to 107,747
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As of May 24, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 107,747. Read more »
May 23, 2020
Africa: A Global Challenge Made of Love to Combat COVID-19 [interview]
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How about using the power of a digital platform to bring together people from all over the world to share, inspire, and empower each other? That is the objective of the Ubuntu Love… Read more »
Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across the Continent Exceed 100,000
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As of May 23, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 103,875. Read more »
May 22, 2020
Africa: 0.22% Rise, 57,545 Active Cases Across the Continent
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As of May 22, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 99,976. Read more »
May 21, 2020
Africa: Four Ways to Combat Malaria in the Time of COVID-19 [guest column]
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Globally there are more than 5.1 million cases of COVID-19 with most cases currently in high income countries. The U.S. and Europe are responsible for 72% of COVID-19 cases, 63% of… Read more »
Africa: Continent Nears 100,000 Cases of COVID-19
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As of May 21, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 95,585. Read more »
Africa: Let's Prepare for a Marathon Struggle Against COVID-19 [guest column]
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African health practitioners should own the narrative of the coronavirus pandemic and take advantage of Africa's experience of other outbreaks of disease in order to mount a… Read more »
May 20, 2020
Africa: 'Let's Use the Interconnectedness That Spread COVID-19 to Fight It' [interview]
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AllAfrica's Esther Rose spoke with Dr Ify Aniebo, an infectious disease expert with a background in molecular biology and genetics, and who co-authored the Lancet paper:… Read more »
Africa: To Stop Falling Behind, Africa Needs Proactive Approach to Beat Pandemics
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The novel coronavirus pandemic has claimed over 300,000 lives worldwide, and like in the rest of the world, in Africa is seeing COVID-19 tighten its grip, with over 91,000… Read more »
Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across the Continent Exceed 91 Thousand
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As of May 20, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 91,514. Read more »
May 19, 2020
Lesotho: Thabane Resigns as Lesotho's Prime Minister
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Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has formally resigned more than a week after his coalition government fell apart, in a move that could help end a long-running political… Read more »
Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across the Continent Exceed 88 Thousand
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As of May 19, the confirmed COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 88,264. Reported deaths in Africa have reached 2,832 and recoveries 33,898. Read more »
May 18, 2020
Kenya: Give Us Your Farm Throw-Aways; We'll Give Back Black Gold [interview]
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Whether volunteering at local high schools in her community, educating boys about the importance of speaking out and building self-confidence or taking a summer course at… Read more »
Africa: Some Progress, But Africans Still Live With All Forms of Malnutrition - Global Nutrition Report
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There are 37 countries worldwide that are fighting all three forms of malnutrition - and 27 of them are in Africa. Read more »
Kenya: Safi Organics Turns Farm Waste into Black Gold and Poor Farmers into Entrepreneurs
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Mary Rigo has been a spinach and tomato farmer for the past decade a few minute's drive from here in Kirinyaga county, where she owns a two-acre farm about one hundred kilometres… Read more »
Africa: Inadequate Diets Are Making Populations Vulnerable to COVID-19 [interview]
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AllAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo spoke with Dr Jane Battersby, an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities, on the need to address malnutrition in… Read more »