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Congo-Kinshasa: DRC - Congolese Reporter Charged With Violating COVID-19 Restrictions
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Kasaï-Oriental province, in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to drop all charges against Faustin Mbiya, a radio journalist who was held arbitrarily for three days for violating Covid-19 lockdown
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Africa: An International Anti-Corruption Court Could Help Recover Funds for the Fight Against COVID-19
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Angola: COVID-19 - Angola With Three New Infections
Luanda — Angola has detected three more cases of local transmission of covid-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the number to
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Africa: Scientists May Have Found a New Coronavirus Lurking in Wildlife - Key Takeaways
Worm-like creatures from a remote Bornean rainforest could be opening doors to a 'rogues' gallery' of viral
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Africa: $107 Million Cash Injection to Fight COVID-19 in Africa
Cape Town — A group of philanthropic foundations founded by a music industry billionaire who was an early promoter of successful hip-hop artists has announced a multi-million dollar donation to fight COVID-19 in
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Nigeria: Alarm Bells As COVID-19 Cripples Poultry, Fish Farming Biz
Farmers lament losses, experts warn of food shortage
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Africa: 20 Percent of Africans Believe They Can't Contract COVID-19 - Report
But as cases increase, a May report by the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC), a public-private partnership initiative on COVID-19 in AU countries, found that certain misconceptions about coronavirus infections exist among
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DRC - Zambia border re-opens
The Democratic Republic of Congo announced Thursday the partial reopening for pedestrians, a border post with Zambia.This followed a day’s demonstration against this preventive measure taken in response to the Covid-19
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Africa: How Will Citizens Be Safe From COVID-19 During Elections?
Johannesburg — At least 22 countries in Africa will be organizing polls this year, 13 of which will be for the positions of president or prime
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Rwanda Tourism Sector Turns to Domestic Market for Survival and Recovery
The sector's best chances for survival in the short and medium term lie in the domestic tourism, according to The Economic Recovery Plan, covering the period May 2020 - December
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Black press hit hard by COVID-19 but we will not shut down!
An estimated 1,800 newspapers closed between 2004 and 2018 after the number of people buying print editions dropped, and now during the pandemic, it appears most small publications – especially minority-based ones – will be phased out
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Africa: How Has Human Smuggling Changed Under COVID-19?
Concerned about the spread of the coronavirus, many smugglers, armed groups and communities are imposing their own restrictions on
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Africa CDC Head Rebukes Burundi for Expelling WHO
Africa's top official leading the continental fight against the Covid-19 pandemic has rebuked the Burundi government for kicking out the World Health Organisation's top official in the country after the WHO raised concerns about the danger of crowded election rallies spreading the deadly
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Nigeria: There's 'Urgent Need' to Decongest Nigerian Prisons - CJN Tells Judges
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Muhammad, has written to the chief judges of states on the 'urgent' need to decongest Nigerian prisons due to the coronavirus
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Cameroon: Govt Efforts On Bringing Back Trapped Citizens - Some 139 Cameroonians Return From Dubai
Within the framework of the operation to repatriate Cameroonians blocked abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic, 139 of them got to the Yaounde-Nsimalen International Airport on Saturday, May 9, 2020 on board a special Ethiopian Airlines plane from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, information
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Ethiopia coronavirus: 261 cases, president calls for global solidarity
May 10: 239 cases, Abiy appreciates US support
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Africa: Controls to Manage Fake News in Africa Are Affecting Freedom of Expression
Even before COVID-19, many African countries used libel and defamation laws, and internet shut downs to limit the freedom of expression of citizens and the
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Rwanda: Govt to Scale Up Interventions to Accelerate Technology, Innovation
The Government has set out a series of actions and plans that it will implement to accelerate technology and innovation in the country amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic, or
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Africa: COVID-19 in West Africa - Credible Information As A Vaccine Against Misinformation?
As governments struggle to contain COVID19, public service announcements and communication must focus on making citizens accept that the illness is a reality, giving them the knowledge to prevent and treat the infection and debunking myths and fake stories which impact the effectiveness of the
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Africa: Lessons in Explaining Viruses to the Public - Rely On the Science
One specific challenge with our healthcare system strengthening efforts in Kenya is that many patients preferred to receive care from herbalists and found it convenient to consult
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Nigeria: How We're Assisting Nigeria to Avert Food Crisis - World Food Programme
With Nigeria one of 36 countries at the risk of an acute food crisis in Africa, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says it has scaled up its outreach to 1.2 million people monthly in the northeast region of the country in the wake of the coronavirus
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Brazil surpasses 10,000 coronavirus deaths
The country of 210 million inhabitants, the most affected in Latin America, could become the new global epicentre of the
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'I'm borne down': She’s lost more than 30 friends and acquaintances to the coronavirus
For weeks, Marsha Music's Facebook feed has brought a stream of death notices as COVID-19 tears through the black community in her hometown of
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Malawi's presidential campaign amid virus
Malawi’s presidential campaign is in full swing despite the COVID-19
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Botswana coronavirus: capital Gaborone declared high-risk area, 'quarantined'
A statement issued by Dr. Kereng Masupu, coordinator of the presidential task force on COVID-19 read: “Following the confirmed COVID-19 case of a truck driver who came into Gaborone through the Tiokweng border on Sunday 09 May
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Kenya: Union Mobilises Journalists for Support to Colleagues Affected By the COVID-19 Crisis
In recent weeks, nearly all media houses in Kenya have either applied pay cuts or suspended certain work benefits temporarily, leaving dozens of journalists jobless or with a substantial financial
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Africa: Archaeology Shows How Ancient African Societies Managed Pandemics
About 76 infant burial sites at an abandoned settlement that now forms part of the Mapungubwe World Heritage site in the Limpopo Valley of South Africa suggest a pandemic hit the people living there after 1000
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Africa: Beyond Trump - Us, UN & Global Health Governance
One, the long running love-hate relationship between the US and the UN, and two, a better understanding of how global public health is governed and in the overall context of global
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