The Launching of the Inaugural Africa Biennial Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
My fellow Africans! I am pleased to issue this press briefing at the launch of the Inaugural Africa Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. As you...
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Germany to Ramp Up Investment in African Energy
“Germany-Africa Economic Relations: Making Deals Post COVID-19” highlighted opportunities for German businesses in Africa’s power production, clean energy, and digitalization and technology sectors; An opening...
Coronavirus – Africa: World Mask Week aims to inspire global movement to wear face coverings in public
The Pandemic Action Network, WHO, Africa CDC, US CDC and US CDC Foundation, Facebook, Google, Global Citizen and 40+ partner organizations announced today the launch...
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Coronavirus – Africa: Strengthening women’s access to climate information services crucial to improve their ability to adapt to climate risks
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) on Thursday hosted a webinar in which participants discussed...
COVID-19 Situation Report for Nigeria
The COVID19 Nigeria situation report has been published. Our daily COVID19 situation reports provide a summary of the epidemiological situation & response activities in Nigeria....
Nigeria: Kaduna State and WHO scale up COVID-19 and Tuberculosis (TB) search with mobile testing in communities
World Health Organization (WHO) Nigeria has supported the screening of 2306 persons for COVID-19 and 2506 persons for Tuberculosis (TB), using Chest X-Ray, and GeneXpert...
Rwanda: Update on COVID-19
Seven (7) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3196 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to two thousand, one...
African Union Member States reporting COVID-19 cases
African Union Member States (55) reporting COVID-19 cases (1,007,366) deaths (22,066), and recoveries (690,436) by region: Central (49,648 cases; 945 deaths; 36,324 recoveries): Burundi (400;...
South Africa: Lessons of HIV/AIDS key to halting COVID-19 slide, says Red Cross
A senior Red Cross official has warned that South Africa needed to learn lessons from the country’s fight against HIV/AIDS to help curb the rise...
COVID-19 WHO Africa Update
Over 1,000,000 confirmed COVID19 cases on the African continent – with more than 690,000 recoveries & more than 22,000 deaths cumulatively....