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 »

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: 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: George Floyd - A Wound at the Heart of our Humanity, A New Symbol of the Fight against Racism and Police Violence

8 minutes is the time it took police officer Derek Chauvin to tackle and keep a human being under his knee on the ground and deprive him of his most basic right, his life. His… Read more »

Africa: Over 335,000 Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Across Continent After 4 Million Tests

As of June 25, confirmed the COVID-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 335,790. Read more »

Africa: COVID-19 to Cost Billions in African Exports

COVID-19 is having a profound impact on global trade and the businesses that drive it, says a new report by the International Trade Center (ITC). The report highlights the… Read more »