Author: Ayodeji Johnson Communications and Advocacy Intern, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the current unprecedented times. The coronavirus has ravaged the world as it cuts across sex, age, race, class, and ethnicity in its vicious attack. Currently, almost 4 million cases with at least 270 000 deaths worldwide […]
A cry for help: The COVID-19 pandemic and digital inequalities — AfricLaw
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A cry for help: The COVID-19 pandemic and digital inequalities — AfricLaw
COVID-19, Darfur’s food security crisis and IDPs: From ruins to ruins — AfricLaw
Author: Gursimran Kaur Bakshi Student, National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi, India Background Darfur, a region in the west of Sudan is known as a ‘Land of Killing’. Since 2003, more than 300 000 people have been killed, and over 2.7 million have been forcibly displaced as a result of a genocide […]
COVID-19, Darfur’s food security crisis and IDPs: From ruins to ruins — AfricLaw
Why are Africa’s coronavirus successes being overlooked?, by Afua Hirsch — Jungle Journalist Media Limited — Africa Talk Multimedia Network
Remember, early on in the Covid-19 pandemic, the speculation as to how apocalyptic it would be if this disease hit the African continent? I do. There was deep anxiety about what it would mean for countries with lower income populations, dominant but harder-to-regulate informal economies and far fewer healthcare facilities than the UK or Italy. […] […]
Why are Africa’s coronavirus successes being overlooked?, by Afua Hirsch — Jungle Journalist Media Limited — Africa Talk Multimedia Network
Coronavirus : Financement, unité et confiance – trois éléments nécessaires pour un vaccin contre le co ronavirus — Database of Press Releases related to Africa – APO-Source
Plusieurs dirigeants de la planète ont défendu jeudi le Dispositif pour accélérer l’accès aux outils de lutte contre la Covid-19 (Accélérateur ACT) alors que la pandémie poursuit sa progression à travers le monde. S’appuyer sur un « leadership politique de haut-niveau » pour mobiliser une « réponse commune » au coronavirus, c’est l’exercice auquel s’est […]
Coronavirus : Financement, unité et confiance – trois éléments nécessaires pour un vaccin contre le co ronavirus — Database of Press Releases related to Africa – APO-Source
Coronavirus – Africa: Canada continues to lead international coordination on response to COVID-19 — Database of Press Releases related to Africa – APO-Source
Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Foreign Affairs, hosted the 10th call of the Ministerial Coordination Group on COVID-19 with his counterparts from Australia, Brazil, Germany, Morocco, Peru, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The ministers provided an update on their countries’ responses to COVID-19 and ongoing multilateral work on vaccines and supply chains, […]
Coronavirus – Africa: Canada continues to lead international coordination on response to COVID-19 — Database of Press Releases related to Africa – APO-Source
Coronavirus – Afrique : Le Canada continue d’assurer la coordination internationale en réponse à la COVID-19 — Database of Press Releases related to Africa – APO-Source
Aujourd’hui, le ministre des Affaires étrangères, l’honorable François-Philippe Champagne, a organisé le dixième appel du Groupe ministériel de coordination sur la COVID-19, dans le cadre duquel il s’est entretenu avec ses homologues de l’Australie, du Brésil, de l’Allemagne, du Maroc, du Pérou, de l’Afrique du Sud et du Royaume-Uni. Les ministres ont profité de l’occasion […]
Coronavirus – Afrique : Le Canada continue d’assurer la coordination internationale en réponse à la COVID-19 — Database of Press Releases related to Africa – APO-Source
Coronavirus Global Response: Access to COVID-19 Tools-Accelerator Facilitation Council holds inaugural meeting — Database of Press Releases related to Africa – APO-Source
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres appeals for a quantum leap in funding for the ACT-Accelerator, a global solution to get the world moving, working and prospering again – H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, and H.E. Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway, co-chair the ACT-Acceleration Facilitation Council – Global leaders – including over […]
Coronavirus Global Response: Access to COVID-19 Tools-Accelerator Facilitation Council holds inaugural meeting — Database of Press Releases related to Africa – APO-Source
CfP: Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics — Repeating Islands
CALL FOR PAPERS special issue of eTropic: journal of studies in the tropics Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics Submission deadline: 1 December 2020 ABOUT THEME: Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics The Tropics has long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a […]
CfP: Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics — Repeating Islands
Innovative Protocol Developed for Virtual Arbitration Hearings in Africa — Africa-OnTheRise
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on the way in which disputes are being resolved around the world. In most countries, courts and arbitral bodies have been forced to take measures to prevent or limit the spread of COVID-19. 15 more words
Innovative Protocol Developed for Virtual Arbitration Hearings in Africa — Africa-OnTheRise
The first deal under AfCFTA gets under way as negotiators adapt to new virtual reality — Africa-OnTheRise
The African Union (AU) announced in August that negotiations around the first commercial trade deal under the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) would be finalised by January 2021. 26 more words
The first deal under AfCFTA gets under way as negotiators adapt to new virtual reality — Africa-OnTheRise