July 25, 2020
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 »
July 24, 2020
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 »
July 23, 2020
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 »
July 22, 2020
Uganda: Small Clean-Fuel Business Is Surviving Covid-19 through Adaptation - Founder Arthur Woniala
Ugandan engineer and innovator Arthur Woniala is passionate about people, entrepreneurship and sustainable solutions to everyday challenges. In 2007 with the help of two friends,… 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 »
July 21, 2020
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 »
July 20, 2020
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: 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 »
July 19, 2020
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: 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 »
July 18, 2020
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 »
July 16, 2020
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 »
South Africa: Zindzi Mandela Tested Positive for COVID-19, Family Confirms
According to Times Live, Zindzi Mandela tested positive for COVID-19 the day she passed away. 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 »
July 15, 2020
Uganda: Clean Cooking - Mother's Illness Inspires Young Engineer's Business
Arthur Woniala was in his last year of university, studying mechanical engineering, when his mother developed severe respiratory disease, after years of being exposed to smoke from… 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 »
July 14, 2020
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: 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: 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 »
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 »
South Africa: Ambassador to Denmark, Nelson Mandela's Daughter Zindzi Mandela Has Died
Multiple South African news agencies are reporting that Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of Nelson Mandela and South Africa's ambassador to Denmark, has died. Read more »