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    Epidemics and Social Observation: Why Africa Needs a Different Approach to Covid-19

    By Paul Richards
    June 1, 2020
    Why haven’t social factors been more thoroughly scrutinised in the huge upsurge of scientific effort to combat Covid-19?
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    Kenya and Covid-19: Pandemic Response Risks Excluding Minority Groups

    By Ella Duncan
    May 29, 2020
    Identity based welfare exclusion reinforces the Kenyan's state fault lines of power and access
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    Covid-19 and the New Scramble for Africa

    By Anne Abaho
    May 27, 2020
    Covid-19 and the New Scramble for Africa
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    من على البعد: دروس مفيدة من تجارب العون في الصومال والسودان لأزمة كوفيد-19*

    By Susanne Jaspars
    May 26, 2020
    Going Remote: Learning from Aid Practices in Somalia and Sudan for the Covid-19 Crisis
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    Love (from Afar) in the Time of Covid-19: Diaspora Humanitarianism and Pandemic Response

    By Bashair Ahmed Paul Asquith
    May 22, 2020
    With close links to origin countries diasporas can mobilise quickly in a humanitarian crisis.
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    Humour Ignores Social Distancing: Postcolonial Irony and Covid-19 in Africa

    By David Mwambari Laura S. Martin
    May 20, 2020
    Africans are fighting and commenting on the Covid epidemic, as they did with long-established colonial narratives, through the medium of humour.
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    Will Covid-19 South Africa be Another Case of ‘Death Without Weeping’?

    By Vuyokazi Nelly Sharpley Leslie Bank
    May 18, 2020
    How do Covid-19 socialised responses to death and disease compare with previous pandemics?
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    Local Ownership of Peace Processes in African Countries in Times of Covid-19

    By Tarila Marclint Ebiede
    May 15, 2020
    How will COVID-19 affect ongoing peace processes?
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    The Dangers of Covid-20: South Sudan’s Political Dilemma

    By Joshua Craze Naomi Pendle
    May 14, 2020
    Covid-19 presents opportunities to authoritarian governments throughout Africa to extend their control of society. The same is true in South Sudan
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    Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies Across Africa

    By Nidhi Parekh
    May 13, 2020
    Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies across Africa
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