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Covid-19

Home›Category: "Covid-19" (Page 17)

Exploring the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa on health, the economy, politics, social issues, culture and more. (This section includes articles from both the main site and the Debating Ideas sub-section.)

  • Africa's Foreign EngagementsCovid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesPolitics and Political EconomyPublic Health

    COVID-19 in Africa: “Know your Epidemic, Act on its Politics.”

    By Alex de Waal
    March 31, 2020
    COVID-19 in Africa: Know your Epidemic, Act on Its Politics
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    We need to decongest Africa’s prisons urgently. For everyone’s sake.

    By Sabrina Mahtani
    March 30, 2020
    There are three steps governments across Africa can take to avoid COVID-19 spreading through over-crowded prisons. Read all our COVID-19 coverage  Across the continent, ...
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  • Covid-19Debating IdeasPublic Health

    Preparing for Covid-19 in Africa

    By Paul Richards
    March 30, 2020
    Preparing for Covid-19 in Africa
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  • Covid-19Debating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesPublic Health

    Surviving COVID-19: Fragility, Resilience and Inequality in Zimbabwe

    By Ian Scoones
    March 27, 2020
    Zimbabwe had three confirmed cases and one recorded death of COVID-19 (coronavirus) as of 26 March, and a national disaster has been declared. So ...
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    The other COVID-19 pandemic: Fake news

    By Idayat Hassan
    March 26, 2020
    False information in Nigeria is undermining medical advice, proffering fake cures, inciting panic and being used for political point-scoring. Read all our COVID-19 coverage  ...
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  • COVID-19 food systems in Africa
    Covid-19Society

    How will COVID-19 affect Africa’s food systems?

    By William Moseley
    March 25, 2020
    Food supplies shouldn’t be too badly affected, but social restrictions will make it hard for many to buy and access food. Read all our ...
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  • Africa InsidersCovid-19Economy

    Africa Insiders: The COVID-19 recession is going to hurt

    By Africa Insiders
    March 25, 2020
    Read all our COVID-19 coverage  African countries have so far seen relatively fewer COVID-19 cases than hotspots in western Europe, the US and East ...
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  • Covid-19Debating IdeasPublic Health

    Fill the Gaps, Feel the Pain: Insights from Sierra Leone on an Epidemic’s Impact on Local Taxation, Public Services, and the Poor

    By Vanessa van den Boogaard
    March 25, 2020
    Fill the gaps, feel the pain: Insights from Sierra Leone on an epidemic’s impact on local taxation, public services, and the poor
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  • Covid-19Debating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesPublic Health

    Covid-19 and the Culture of Eating Wild Animals in Central Africa

    By Theodore Trefon
    March 23, 2020
    the economy of bush meat in central Africa, zoonosis
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    Covid-19Politics

    Covid-19: Africa must act locally, but keep thinking globally

    By Olusegun Obasanjo, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf & Jonathan Oppenheimer
    March 19, 2020
    A danger perhaps graver than the disease itself is the collapse of our economies, mortally wounded by a world turning in on itself. Read ...
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