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Africa The Unsung Continent in the Fight Against  COVID-19

The continent's experience in fighting other outbreaks has helped it fight this one. For example, Sierra Leone and Liberia used what they learned during the 2014 Ebola epidemic about building contact tracing networks and quickly implemented them to track COVID-19. In other places across the continent, people readily adopted non-pharmaceutical interventions despite PPE shortages, which people in Western countries were slow to do, writes Solomon Zewdu for allafrica.

Africa: In The Fight Against  COVID-19, Africa is The Unsung Continent

allAfrica, 18 June 2020

Two months ago, when the peak of the pandemic passed in China and moved to the United States and Western Europe, epidemiologists tried to predict where COVID-19 would hit next -… Read more »
Africa: African Nations Push UN to Hold U.S. Accountable for Racism, Police Brutality

RFI, 17 June 2020

The United Nations Human Rights Council opened a special, unscheduled debate on Wednesday to discuss the issue of racism and police brutality in the United States in the wake of… Read more »
Africa: Free Trade Zone Launch Moved to January Over Pandemic Lockdowns

East African, 17 June 2020

Commencement of trade under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) has been pushed to a tentative date in January next year. The African Union Commission's original… Read more »
Africa: Africa Launches Medical Supplies Platform to Fight COVID-19

SAnews.gov.za, 17 June 2020

As Africa braces itself for the peak in COVID-19 cases, the continent is launching the Africa Medical Supplies Platform, an innovative marketplace to enable all African governments… Read more »
Africa: Tap Into Young People's Talents for a Post-Pandemic World

allAfrica, 16 June 2020

According to UN World Population Prospects, the world's youngest countries are in Africa. Overall, almost 60 percent of Africa's population is under the age of 25. The booming… Read more »

U.S. Embassy Nigeria

Women - most widowed or otherwise made vulnerable by the Boko Haram insurgency - are producing facemasks using the traditional Ankara fabric, to protect the population from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria’s conflict-affected Northeast. Initial training for the women by professional tailors in Maiduguri, was supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development.