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Africa Balances Safely Easing Lockdowns Against Economic Hardship

Some four months after the first COVID-19 case in Africa was reported in Egypt, countries on the continent are beginning to ease public health and social measures imposed to curb the spread of the pandemic in the face of a crippling economic downturn, with every month of lockdown predicted to cost the continent U.S.$65.7 billion, writes Franck Kuwonu for Africa Renewal.

Africa: As Cases Rise Along With Economic Hardship, Countries Grapple With Safely Easing Lockdowns

Africa Renewal, 11 June 2020

Some four months after the first COVID-19 case in Africa was reported in Egypt, countries on the continent are beginning to ease public health and social measures, such as… Read more »

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Graphic illustrating the economic impact of COVID-19 (file photo).

Africa: Coronavirus Poses Leadership Test for Africa's Heads of State

VOA, 12 June 2020

As Burundi enters a period of mourning for President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died Monday, his leadership during the coronavirus pandemic is being scrutinized. Read more »
Africa: COVID-19 Has Not Taken a Break As Figures Show Large Increase in Africa Infections

RFI, 9 June 2020

The World Health Organisation urges countries to press on with efforts to contain the novel Coronavirus, noting the pandemic is worsening globally while lockdown restrictions are… Read more »
Africa: Thinking Post-COVID-19

AfricaFocus, 8 June 2020

"Calls for debt relief—or more timid debt service moratorium—are drops in the ocean. Something much more ambitious and radical should be envisaged. This crisis allows… Read more »
Africa: The Curious Case of COVID-19 in Africa

IPS, 3 June 2020

With very weak health systems and overall capacity constraints to effectively respond to the deadly coronavirus disease, Africa's fate against the invisible enemy, was going to be… Read more »