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He co-founded the African Heritage Gallery with Kenya’s first vice-president Joseph Murumbi
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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By Steve Ogah While Donald Trump, America’s 45th and current president; doesn’t engender much excitement on the African continent as a result of some of his immigration policies, which seek to enclose America with a border wall, and purported ingrained derogatory linguistic capabilities for some […]
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There are now more than over 400,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when.
As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.
SUGGESTED READING: Africa’s COVID-19 deaths pass 100,000 mark
Major African stats: June 30 at 7:00 GMT:
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\t\tConfirmed cases = 418,211
\t\tActive cases = 209,623
\t\tRecoveries = 198,182
\t\tNumber of deaths = 10,406
Countries in alphabetical order
\t\tAlgeria – 13,272
\t\tAngola – 291
\t\tBenin – 1,199
\t\tBotswana – 227
\t\tBurkina Faso – 962
\t\tBurundi – 170
\t\tCameroon – 12,592
\t\tCape Verde – 1,267
\t\tCentral African Republic – 3,745
\t\tChad – 866
\t\tComoros – 303
\t\tCongo-Brazzaville – 1,382
\t\tDR Congo – 7,122
\t\tDjibouti – 4,704
\t\tEgypt – 69,814
\t\tEquatorial Guinea – 2,001
\t\tEritrea – 203
\t\tEswatini – 840
\t\tEthiopia – 5,846
\t\tGabon – 5,513
\t\t(The) Gambia – 49
\t\tGhana – 18,134
\t\tGuinea – 5,404
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 1,654
\t\tIvory Coast – 9,702
\t\tKenya – 6,673
\t\tLesotho – 35
\t\tLiberia – 804
\t\tLibya – 874
\t\tMadagascar – 2,303
\t\tMalawi – 1,265
\t\tMali – 2,202
\t\tMauritania – 4,472
\t\tMauritius – 341
\t\tMorocco – 12,636
\t\tMozambique – 903
\t\tNamibia – 285
\t\tNiger – 1,075
\t\tNigeria- 26,484
\t\tRwanda – 1,042
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 715
\t\tSenegal – 6,925
\t\tSeychelles – 81
\t\tSierra Leone – 1,498
\t\tSomalia – 2,924
\t\tSouth Africa – 159,333
\t\tSouth Sudan – 2,021
\t\tSudan – 9,573
\t\tTanzania – 509
\t\tTogo – 661
\t\tTunisia – 1,175
\t\tUganda – 893
\t\tZambia – 1,632
\t\tZimbabwe – 605
SUGGESTED READING: rolling coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in Africa II
Governments can take the opportunity of COVID-19 to change Africa's place in global economic structures, but it will take pan-African coordination.
Since the 16th century, Africa has been a place of both resource extraction - in the form of enslaved people, gold and minerals - and of external financing as European traders provided credit to their African counterparts to help finance the expansion of the Atlantic trade.
The structural adjustment policies promoted by the IMF and World Bank following the 1970s oil crisis may have further entrenched African economies' dependency on the export of raw materials.
Rather than trying to return to normal - albeit with even greater debt and mass unemployment - African governments should take this rare chance to rebalance Africa's relationship to global capital.
Although they would be just a start, these twin policies of a debt cancellation campaign and increased credit - financed through the diaspora and pan-African banks - would bring money into African economies and significantly ameliorate the current crisis.
Africa breached the 200,000 mark on June 10 according to the AU’s Africa Centers for Disease Control, which at the time reported that there were 203,899 cases along with 5,530 deaths and 91,398 recoveries.
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May 22: Cases pass 100,000 mark
\tConfirmed cases of coronavirus across Africa passed the 100,000 mark barely 24-hours after the deaths hit 3,000.
The five most impacted nations were as follows:
\t\tSouth Africa: 19,137 confirmed cases
\t\tEgypt: 15,003
\t\tAlgeria: 7,728
\t\tMorocco: 7,300
\t\tNigeria: 7,016
\tSouth Africa is the most impact across the continent and in the southern African region.
April 18: Cases across Africa pass 20,000 mark
\tConfirmed cases of coronavirus passed the 20,000 mark barely 24-hours after the deaths topped 1,000.
Additional files on UNECA report from AP
April 17: Africa’s coronavirus deaths pass 1,000 mark as cases approach 20,000
\tAfrica’s coronavirus deaths have surpassed the 1,000 mark according to tallies by the john Hopkins University.
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Too rich for debt relief available to most African nations and hobbled by its politics, South Africa is facing a public financing crisis.
“Even as South Africa responds to the current health and economic crisis, a fiscal reckoning looms.
Even as South Africa responds to the current health and economic crisis, a fiscal reckoning looms.
South Africa’s fiscal decline accelerated over the past decade as loss-making state-owned companies including Eskom and South African Airways received a series of bailouts and the government repeatedly failed to rein in public sector wages.
But warnings it may require additional budget support and have to follow a structural reform programme mandated by the Washington-based lender are unlikely to be heeded ahead of municipal elections next year, said Ralph Mathekga, a political analyst and author of books about South African politics.
Burundi’s new president has signaled that his government will take the coronavirus pandemic more seriously than his dead predecessor, calling the virus the country’s “worst enemy” and announcing new screenings.
President Evariste Ndayishimiye on Tuesday said the screenings will be launched wherever clusters of cases are suspected, and that soap prices and water bills will be reduced.
Predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza died last month of what Burundi’s government called a heart attack.
Some countries and human rights groups have expressed hope that the new president, an ally of Nkurunziza, might break with certain ways of his predecessor.
Burundi has 170 confirmed cases of the virus, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Musicians from East Africa can apply for the 2020 Radio France International Discoveries (RFI) Discovery Music Award (Prix Découverte).
The prestigious competition is open to musicians and genres from Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean.
Submissions are open through an online application form or on the RFI website.
The winner will also tour Africa, perform at a concert in Paris, benefit from media exposure from RFI and its partners, and get airplay on the station, which could lead to time on other radios worldwide.
The prize is organised in partnership with the Institut Français, l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, the Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music and Ubiznews.
The World Health Organization warned of a third wave of coronavirus infections throughout Africa amid a massive surge of new cases.
The post WHO Warns of Third COVID Wave in Africa appeared first on The Washington Informer.
[East African] Covid-19 vaccine donations will not cut it for Africa, and the continent needs to be serious about setting up vaccine manufacturing plants so as to end reliance on the West, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said.
Dambudzo Marechera, a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet won critical acclaim for his collection of stories entitled “The House of Hunger“.
“The House of Hunger,” a powerful account of life in his country under white rule published in 1978, was number 207 in Heinemann’s African Writers Series and was awarded the 1979 Guardian Fiction prize.
Born on June 4, 1952, in Vhengere Township, Rusape, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), to Isaac Marechera, a mortuary attendant, and Masvotwa Venenzia Marechera, a maid, Marechera has been described as a writer who considered fiction a ‘form of combat’, his work is complex, challenging and uniquely potent.
He lived on the streets in dire poverty, mostly drunk, sleeping in friends’ sitting-rooms and writing various fictional and poetic pieces on park benches and regularly getting caught by the police for vagrancy.
Marechera returned to Zimbabwe in 1981 to assist in shooting the film of House of Hunger.
South Africa’s last apartheid President, F.W de Klerk, has withdrawn from a scheduled seminar in the U.S about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his host in the current racial climate, according to his foundation.
De Klerk, who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela was scheduled to speak on July 1 at an American Bar Association (ABA) virtual event on issues such as minority rights, racism, and the rule of law, Reuters reported.
“The allegation that De Klerk was involved in gross violations of human rights is baseless,” the F.W De Klerk foundation said in a statement.
After the criticisms, ABA confirmed De Klerk would no longer speak at the event.
“At a time like this where the whole world is crying out for recognition and demanding that value be placed on our lives, on Black lives, we think that ABA erred in inviting someone like De Klerk,” said Lukhanyo Calata, the son of Fort Calata, who was killed along with three other anti-apartheid activists by South African police in 1985 in an incident known as “The Cradock Four”.
MOMBASA CITY, Kenya - Monica Kiema never had the chance to run like other children. Kiema, now a 50-year-old mother of five in the Bombolulu district in Mombasa, Kenya, contracted polio when she was just three years old and still lives with permanent paralysis in her left leg. But now Kiema has lived to see Africa declared polio-free by the […]
Ahead of the launch later on Tuesday by MTN South Africa of its 5G network, the mobile operator has updated its coverage maps, showing where the superfast technology is available.
MTN will take the wraps off its plans for its 5G network in an online event on YouTube later on Tuesday
MTN will take the wraps off its plans for its 5G network in an online event later on Tuesday, becoming the first of the telecommunications group’s 22 operations to launch the next-generation broadband technology.
Rival Vodacom South Africa launched a commercial 5G network in May, though also with limited coverage for now.
Rain was the first operator in South Africa to deploy 5G commercially, though it uses the technology for fixed-wireless applications rather than mobile.
Source: MTN South Africa
According to its website, MTN will offer three 5G-enabled smartphones at launch: the Huawei P40 Pro, the Huawei P40 and the LG Velvet 5G.
Makamu wa Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania Dkt. Philip Isdor Mpango hii leo Septemba 7, 2021 amemuwakilisha Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania Mhe. Samia Suluhu Hassan katika mkutano wa wakwanza wa Afrika na Umoja wa Nchi za “Carribbean”(Africa – CARRICOM Summit) uliofanyika kwa njia ya mtandao.…
The report further predicts that the situation could get worse as climate change will affect availability, quality and quantity of water negatively impacting the water and sanitation sector for billions of people all over the world.
The challenge of climate change in East Africa was recently analyzed in the “Horizon East Africa” (2019) research project authored by Msingi, Kenya Markets Trust and Gatsby Africa.
The report categorically stated “Climate change poses a major threat to East Africa” as temperatures continue to increase, water becomes scarcer and sea levels rise to the point of flooding coastal settlements.
Climate change should be of great interest to those of us in the Insurance Industry where our inter related roles as risk managers, insurers and investors contribute in promoting economic, social and environmental sustainability commonly referred to as sustainable development.
With the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement on Climate Change (2015), and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015, there is growing pressure and urgency across all sectors of society to respond and find solutions to sustainability challenges the world is facing.
Thousands of Burundians clad in white gathered on Friday in the capital Gitega to say a final goodbye to former president Pierre Nkurunziza at a state funeral after his sudden death earlier this month.
The ceremonies began early in the morning with a \"homage by his wife, Denise Bucumi Nkurunziza, his children and those close to him\" in an intimate gathering at the hospital where he passed away, a government source told AFP.
\"Nowhere in Africa, or the world, has a leader been as close to God as president Nkurunziza was,\" Ndayishimiye said in a tear-filled speech, adding he was also \"the closest to the people\".
Nkurunziza, a devout evangelical who believed he was chosen by God to lead Burundi, leaves behind a deeply isolated country in political and economic turmoil.
Burundi has taken few measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus, with Nkurunziza claiming God had spared the country from its ravages.
Washington, DC — H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, President, Republic of Kenya and H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President, Republic of Ghana, gave opening remarks and participated in a fireside chat moderated by Amb.
President Kenyatta stressed the promise and importance of the proposed U.S.-Kenya Free Trade Agreement, with negotiations set to begin July 7, 2020.
He emphasized the importance of Africa's private sector in leading economic growth, pointing to Kenya's efforts to adopt more business-friendly rules and regulations to support this growth.
President Akufo-Addo stated that the Ghanaian government has adopted a \"Whole of Ghana\" approach to fighting the pandemic, which includes a $250 million coronavirus alleviation program to support SMEs, minimize job losses, and stimulate economic revitalization.
Panelists discussed the future and potential impact of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and of U.S.-Africa trade arrangements; the importance of partnerships between the U.S. and African government, private sector and multilateral stakeholders; and the importance of intra-African trade, manufacturing, aviation, and the digital economy.
