South Africa: IMF Provides $4.3 Billion in Emergency Assistance to fight Covid-19
The IMF announced this week that it approved $4.7 billion (€3.7 billion) in emergency assistance in response to Covid-19 to South Africa. The country had […]
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Morocco bans travel in and out of key cities for Covid-19 fears
Morocco has shut down major cities preventing entry or exist in order to contain a new surge in Covid-19 cases, the Interior and Health Ministries […]
Madagascar: Trade Union Federation of the Ministry of Health supports the approach of Professor Ahmad Ahmad in calling for international aid to fight against Covid 19
The Trade Union Federation of the Ministry of Health supports the approach of its Minister, Professor Ahmad Ahmad. The latter has sent a letter to […]
Kenya: The chairman of the Senate committee on Covid-19 has resigned for violating curfew
Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja was arrested in a bar at one o’clock in the morning on Friday evening, 17 July. A blatant violation of the […]
Covid-19: Fifteen African countries threatened by a food crisis, FAO and WFP warned
According to a joint analysis by the World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 15 “at-risk” African countries are threatened by […]
Covid-Organics: Congolese trials point to limited effectiveness of Malagasy remedy
The Malagasy government has offered the government of Congo-Brazzaville a large quantity of Covid-Organics, its traditional recipe for combating the coronavirus. Following studies, the results […]
Partial takeover of air routes in several States in Africa
In Senegal, an Algiers-Dakar flight landed on the tarmac of the Blaise-Diagne airport in the Senegalese capital. A first after four months of interruption. Many […]
South Africa: Reinstatement of curfew and ban on the sale of alcohol
Two months after lifting them, Pretoria decided to re-impose these restrictions on 12 July, in view of the spread of the epidemic (between 12,000 and […]
COVID-19: Africa passes the 500,000 confirmed cases threshold
Africa has passed the 500,000 confirmed cases threshold. This represents an additional 100,000 cases since July 1. According to the World Health Organization, 22 countries […]
Covid-19: Morocco Extends State of Health Emergency until August 10
Moroccan authorities have decided to extend by one month the state of health emergency until August 10 to keep up the efforts deployed in the […]