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: 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: 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 »

Congo-Kinshasa: A Job for a Woman - Peacebuilding and Delivering Benefits to People Hungering for Change

What is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced turbulence and conflict for centuries, and most of its 85 million people remain desperately poor. Yet it is,… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

South Africa: Pay Black Women Healthcare Workers, The Backbone of Our Health Sector

It will take the average professional nurse 65 years to earn the annual salary of a chief executive officer of one of the private hospital groups in South Africa. Read more »

Kenya: The Borehole That Transformed Lives of Turkana's Desert Farmers

Launched in 2014, Natiira Ateni Self Help Group is located in Turkana County, more than 700 kilometres north of Nairobi, Kenya's capital. Natiira Ateni is a phrase in the… 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 »

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 »

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 »