Confirmed cases of coronavirus passed the 20,000 marks barely 24-hours after the deaths topped 1,000. This is according to tallies from the John Hopkins University tracker.
The fight to eradicate polio from Africa could become an early casualty of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw funding to the World Health Organization, the international body said.
France said Tuesday that the G20 group of industrialized nations have agreed to a partial moratorium on debt payments this year from the world’s developing countries, many of them in Africa. French President Emmanuel Macron wants to go further.
More than two dozen people were killed in two separate attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region in the grip of militia violence, officials said on Wednesday.
A total of 111 Africans in China’s southern city of Guangzhou had tested positive for the novel coronavirus as of Monday, the Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
The Chair of the African Union (AU), President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Dr Donald Kaberuka, Mr Tidjane Thiam and Mr Trevor Manuel as Special Envoys of the African Union to mobilise international support for Africa’s efforts to address the economic challenges African countries will face as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has commended Ghana and some other African countries for instituting prudent measures to ensure that smallholder farmers are shielded from the effects of the Coronavirus outbreak.
