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 10, 2020
South Africa: 'SLAPP' Suit to Define Legal Landscape in Environmental, Mining Cases Forever?
A South African court has heard the first part of a U.S. $1.3 million defamation suit that may have a profound impact on free speech in the country’s future. 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 »
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 »
July 01, 2020
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: Natiira Ateni - Greening The Desert in Turkana County
Natiira Ateni Self Help group is located at Natira village, Turkana west sub county, Turkana county along Lodwar- Lokichogio highway which is about 150 kilometres away from Lodwar… 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 »
June 30, 2020
Kenya: How a Group of Turkana Herders Became Vegetable Farmers
Natiira Ateni Self Help Group was formed in August 2014 in northwest Kenya, near the borders of South Sudan and Uganda. The community group was launched by former pastoralists who… 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 »
Ethiopia: Internet Blackout After Haacaaluu Shot Dead
A blanket shutdown of the Internet in Ethiopia is being reported by Access Now, an organisation defending the digital rights of users at risk around the world. 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 »