July 14, 2020
Africa: Over 600,000 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Across Continent
As of July 14, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 611,115. Read more »
July 13, 2020
Africa: International Press Freedom Award for Leading Nigerian Journalist Dapo Olorunyomi
The leading Nigerian campaigning journalist, Dapo Olorunyomi, has been honoured for his courage by one of the world's top press freedom groups. Read more »
Africa: Number of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Nears 600,000
As of July 13, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 594,954. Read more »
July 11, 2020
Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Surpass 559,000, With 12,769 Deaths
As of July 11, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 559,446. Read more »
July 03, 2020
Africa: Mining Companies Try to Slap Environmental Activists Down
African citizens and local community groups which campaign on environmental issues are increasingly being sued by corporations in what activists regard as attempts to silence them.… Read more »
July 10, 2020
Africa: Over 266,000 Active COVID-19 Cases Across Continent After 5.4 Million Tests
As of July 10, the confirmed cases of COVID-19 from 55 African countries have reached 541,923. Active cases have reached 266,619 after 5,420,815 tests. Read more »
July 09, 2020
Africa: Modified Risk Tobacco Product - Historic FDA Decision and Lessons for Africa
Following 43 months of evaluation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 7 July authorized the marketing of IQOS in the country, Philip Morris International’s (PMI)… Read more »
Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Surpass 522,000, With 11,978 Deaths
As of July 9, the confirmed cases of COVID-19 from 55 African countries have reached 522,641. Read more »
July 08, 2020
Africa: Remembering Jennifer Davis - Celebration on Saturday (July 11)
Please join Jennifer Davis's family, friends and comrades for an online celebration of her extraordinary life. Read more »
Africa: WHO Acknowledges 'Emerging Evidence' of COVID-19 Being Airborne
The World Health Organisation has responded to an open letter by a group of scientists urging the WHO to address the possibility of COVID-19 virus being airborne. Read more »
Africa: Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Exceed Half a Million
As of July 8, the confirmed cases of COVID-19 from 55 African countries have reached 507,930. Read more »
July 07, 2020
Africa: Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Nears Half Million
As of July 7, the confirmed cases of COVID-19 from 55 African countries have reached 492,858. Read more »
July 06, 2020
Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Surpass 476,600 Mark, With 11,364 Deaths
As of July 6, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 476,637. Read more »
July 05, 2020
Africa: 15,263 New Confirmed COVID-19 Infections Across Continent Amid Record Rise in Global Cases
As of July 5, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 463,102. Read more »
July 04, 2020
Africa: Number of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Nears 450,000
As of July 4, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 447,479. Read more »
July 03, 2020
Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Surpass 432,000
As of July 3, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 432,331. Read more »
July 02, 2020
Africa: Using the Demographic Dividend as Anchor to Fight COVID-19
The Year 2020 will be remembered as the year that heralded great global changes in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. This debilitating contagion has forced the entire world to… Read more »
Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across Continent Surpass 418,000 Mark, With 10,406 Deaths
As of July 2, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 418,211. Read more »
July 01, 2020
Africa: Over 400,000 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Across Continent After 4.5 Million Tests
As of July 1, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 404,795. Read more »
June 30, 2020
Africa: How Young Africans Find Innovative Solutions to Challenges Posed By COVID-19 Pandemic
June is Youth Month in South Africa, built around commemorations of the brave students in Soweto on 16 June 1976 who rose up against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of… Read more »
Africa: Continent Nears 400,000 Confirmed Cases of COVID-19
As of June 30, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 393,231. Read more »
Africa: Peacebuilding Expertise Plays Role in COVID-19 Era
As South Africa prepared for its first democratic elections in 1994, political tensions and domestic conflict escalated. Two years earlier, Wiseman Nkuhlu, now Chancellor of the… Read more »
June 29, 2020
Africa: COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses 9,600 as Total Cases Exceed 382,000
As of June 29, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 382,190. Read more »
June 26, 2020
Africa: COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses 9,000 as Total Cases Exceed 347,800
As of June 26, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 347,836. Read more »
June 25, 2020
Africa: Harm Reduction - Science, Sociology and Restrictive Regulations
At an online panel discussion on Tobacco Harm Reduction on June 23, 2020, Professor Reuven Zimlichman, Director of the Brunner Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Tel-Aviv… Read more »