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Covid-19

Home›Category: "Covid-19" (Page 2)

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.)

  • Trinity Ncube is a volunteer Occupational Therapist (OT). She helps patients regain skills needed in everyday life at the COVID-19 Field Hospital in Nasrec, Johannesburg, South Africa. Credit: IMF Photo/James Oatway.
    Covid-19SocietySouth AfricaTop story

    Rich countries can’t feign shock if the next variant goes undetected

    By Jess Auerbach
    November 29, 2021
    South Africa’s openness helps the world’s pandemic response. The Global North’s rejection of WHO advice in imposing travel bans endangers it. As southern African ...
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  • A nurse at a hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. Credit: AU UN IST/Tobin Jones.
    Covid-19SocietySomalia

    As a nurse in Somalia, I know we need vaccines. Where are they?

    By Deka Abdullahi Abukar
    November 18, 2021
    The pandemic has overwhelmed us. Vaccines are the only solution, yet as rich countries give out third jabs, we’ve barely inoculated 2% of Somalis. ...
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  • Covid-19MalawiOn Food Security & COVID19Top story

    Malawi: COVID-19 hindered business for farmers. They found solutions.

    By Charles Pensulo
    October 8, 2021
    With access to markets and capital negatively impacted by the pandemic, people have found ways to cushion the damage.  In Blantyre, everyone in the ...
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  • Covid-19Society

    The political economy of UK-mandated quarantine

    By Robtel Neajai Pailey
    October 5, 2021
    UK travel rules are another example of Northern hegemons’ disingenuousness on Covid. Anyone who has survived British government-mandated quarantine after returning from a so-called ...
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  • Nassur Sebakali, a boda boda driver, waits for customers in Kiwanga village in late August. The national lockdown severely impacted his business and made it difficult to support his family. Credit: Beatrice Lamwaka/Global Press Journal.
    Covid-19GPJSocietyUganda

    How Uganda’s Covid aid missed the poorest but reached others

    By Beatrice Lamwaka, Edna Namara, Nakisanze Segawa, Patricia Lindrio & Apophia Agiresaasi
    October 1, 2021
    Vulnerable people impacted by a national lockdown were supposed to receive relief payments. Many saw nothing. This story was originally published by Global Press ...
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  • Ghana has held several successful elections but never under the conditions of a pandemic. Credit: Commonwealth Secretariat.
    Covid-19GhanaPolitics

    Running an election during a pandemic: Lessons from Ghana

    By Edem E. Selormey & Gildfred Asiamah
    September 30, 2021
    Ghana’s election was not perfect but didn’t lead to a large rise in COVID-19 cases. What can we learn from its experience? Ghana is ...
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  • Covid-19On Food Security & COVID19Uganda

    “I was tricked into buying air”: Ugandans are losing their land

    By John Okot & Denis Omony
    September 29, 2021
    Amid the pandemic, many people have taken out loans, using land as collateral. Unable to earn and pay their debts, some now face eviction. ...
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    CountryCovid-19Editor's Picks

    Covid-19 vaccine rollout in Africa tracker: An interactive map

    By Catherine Kyobutungi
    September 29, 2021
    Tracking the progress of the vaccine rollout across the continent.   There has been a lot of focus on COVID-19 vaccine inequalities between high-income ...
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  • Covid-19NigeriaSociety

    Nigeria: The infamous 1996 Pfizer trial driving anti-vax feelings today

    By Mahdi Garba & Modupe Abidakun
    September 10, 2021
    For those affected by the devastating drug trial, vaccine hesitancy is not only driven by conspiracy theories or mistrust but lived experience. A version ...
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  • Covid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasSouth Sudan

    Top-down Approaches versus Community-driven Collective Action to Managing Covid-19 in South Sudan

    By Joseph Diing
    September 8, 2021
    Managing Covid-19 in South Sudan
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