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Nigeria: How Coronavirus Lockdown Is Affecting Nigeria's Food Systems
Premium Times, 13 April 2020
Amidst the upsurge of the coronavirus pandemic, the Nigerian food system would be strained in the coming weeks and months, some agricultural experts have posited. Read more »
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Africa: Keeping People Fed in a Time of COVID-19 Lockdowns
allAfrica, 26 March 2020
"The government is saying we stay in the house, but if we do that, we will die of hunger. If we go out to look for money to buy food, we will die from the virus. They need to tell… Read more »
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Africa: A Battle Plan for Ensuring Global Food Supplies During the COVID-19 Crisis
Africa Renewal, 27 March 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the world on a crisis footing, with unprecedented actions to restrict movements and plans for radical deployment of public funds to combat the threat… Read more »
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Africa: How Will COVID-19 Affect Continent's Food Systems?
African Arguments, 25 March 2020
Food supplies shouldn't be too badly affected, but social restrictions will make it hard for many to buy and access food. Read more »
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Kenya: COVID-19 Fears Cast Shadow Over Food Safety
Nation, 26 March 2020
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the economy and lifestyles, grain farmers in the North Rift region are in a catch-22 situation. Read more »
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South Africa: Minister Ebrahim Patel - Government's Intervention Measures On Coronavirus
Govt of SA, 24 March 2020
Media briefing - Remarks by Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Ebrahim Patel. Tues 24 March 2020 Read more »
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Liberia: COVID-19 - Liberia, Fasten Our Belts for the Global Economic Fallout
FrontPageAfrica, 23 March 2020
Liberia has inevitably registered its first case of the COVID-19. We must all pray for the speedy recovery of our victims as a manifestation of our national solidarity to confront… Read more »
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Kenya: Farmers Suffer as Locusts and Virus Outbreak Threaten Harvests
Nation, 20 March 2020
Several counties are battling new desert locust invasions despite the ongoing spraying of hatchlings. They include Embu, Isiolo, Laikipia and Tharaka-Nithi. Read more »
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Liberia: Draw On Lessons From Ebola and Beware of the Implications of a Total Lock-Down!
Liberian Observer, 25 March 2020
The biting effects of the Coronavirus are beginning to stamp its presence with grave implications for the health and economic wellbeing of the Liberian people, particularly for… Read more »
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Rwanda: COVID-19 - Agriculture Activities Continue During Lockdown
New Times, 26 March 2020
The Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources has issued instructions aimed at helping farmers get needed services amid the coronavirus lockdown. Read more »
Keeping Africans Fed in a Time of COVID-19 Lockdowns
Given the informal nature of Africa's economies, lockdowns will lead to job losses and must be accompanied by plans to ensure that populations remain nourished... without sufficient social safety nets from the government that allow them sustenance, what options do they have? Dr Jemimah Njuki, an expert on gender, agriculture and food security, highlights how difficult it can become to access and buy food during the fight to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus...
Shoppers at a mall in Dar es Salaam as new measures are being implemented following the announcement of novel coronavirus cases in the country (file photo).
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#NCoVAfrica is an e-tracking platform following in real-time the evolution of the pandemic on the continent, nation by nation. 35°Nord,a communications consultancy agency ... Read more »
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Ongoing research about SARS-CoV-2 - the new coronavirus - is yielding new information daily, and there is still much to learn. Keep checkingRead more »
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The move comes as more countries across the world heeded the advice of scientists that the only way to slow down the spread of COVID-19 is by imposing movement restrictions on ... Read more »
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There have been calls on the Nigerian government to declare a national lockdown, following an increase in COVID-19 cases over the past week. The army has denied media reports that ... Read more »
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The United Nations secretary-general has warned that the increase in social and economic pressures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has led to a global increase in violence ... Read more »
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Zimbabweans have been for years scrambling to get enough clean water to drink, prepare meals and attend to basic hygiene and are now concerned over what impact the ongoing water ... Read more »
