Africa: Covid-19 Cases Across Africa Pass 811,423 Mark, With 17,117 Deaths

As of July 25, confirmed the Covid-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 811,423. Read more »

Africa: Covid-19 Cases Across Continent Surpass 788,000 Mark, With 16,715 Deaths

As of July 24, confirmed the Covid-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 788,532. Read more »

Africa: Covid-19 Cases Across Continent Surpass 770,000 Mark, With 16,446 Deaths

As of July 23, confirmed the Covid-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 770,175. Read more »

Africa: How Google's Project Loon Can Improve Epidemic Preparedness

Twenty kilometers above the ground, giant balloons are hovering in the sky, providing high-speed internet spanning 50,000 square kilometers across central and western… Read more »

Africa: Number Of Covid-19 Cases Across Continent Exceeds 750,000

As of July 22, confirmed the Covid-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 750,451. Read more »

Africa: Nigeria's Ede First Local Woman to Buy European Football Club

Lusitano Ginásio Clube is a 108-year-old Portuguese football club that is making history with its new owner Nigerian-born Nneka Ede, the first Nigerian woman owner of a… Read more »

Africa: Covid-19 Cases Reach 736,587, With 15,424 Deaths

As of July 21, confirmed the Covid-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 736,587. Read more »

Africa: Covid-19 Cases Across Continent Surpass 721,000 Mark, With 15,170 Deaths

As of July 20, confirmed the Covid-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 721,292. Read more »

Africa: 'There Can Be No Empowerment Without Peace; and No Peace Without Gender Equality'

The women and young peacebuilders' agenda cannot be siloed from the gender equality agenda. Read more »

Africa: There Are Signs of Hope for Ending Poverty, Even in a Pandemic - Report

The novel coronavirus threatens to reverse the gains made in the global struggle to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030 – but Sierra Leone offers hope that progress can be made… Read more »

Africa: Almost 20,000 New Confirmed Covid-19 Cases Across Continent in 24 Hours

As of July 19, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 702,744, rising by 19,252 in 24 hours. Read more »

Africa: 'Tackling the Inequality Pandemic - a New Social Contract for a New Era'

Nelson Mandela spent his whole life fighting against inequality and injustice. "As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world," he said, "none of us can… Read more »

Africa: Over 20,000 New Confirmed Covid-19 Cases Across Continent in 24 Hours

As of July 18, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 683,492, rising by 19,540 in 24 hours. Read more »

Africa: Over 20,000 New Confirmed Covid-19 Cases Across Continent in 24 Hours

As of July 18, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 683,492, rising by 19,540 in 24 hours. Read more »

Africa: Poor Communities Are Adapting, Reimagining the Future Amid Covid-19 - C.D.Glin

Covid-19 has changed the world, but African communities are working to innovate in the face of the crisis. One of the institutions participating in discussions with African… Read more »

Africa: Number of Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Across Continent Rises to Over 640,000

As of July 16, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 643,678. Read more »

Africa: Nearly 300,000 Active COVID-19 Cases Across Continent After Over 6 Million Tests

As of July 15, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 625,818. The number of tests performed has reached 6,005,701 while the number of active cases… Read more »

Africa: Greatest Global Challenge is Cooperation - Not COVID-19

Pandemics come and go. The tragic effect of plague in the Middle Ages reminds us that Covid-19 wasn't the first, and it is clear that it won't be the last. Read more »

Africa: New Smoking Device - a 'Hopeful Moment For the Rest of the World'

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the marketing of IQOS, Philip Morris International's (PMI) electrically heated tobacco system, as a modified risk tobacco… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »