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The international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity is set to Friday celebrate the 2020 International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB), focused on the need to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues.     This year’s celebration is also expected to contribute towards building momentum…

When the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind – African proverb   Background Globally, individuals are having to embrace a new world, which involves the restructuring of self, institutions, economies, and the traditional way of living. The source of this urgent restructuring is no other…

In support of Africa’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU ECOSOCC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s Gender, Women and Civil Society Department, are jointly hosting a series of weekly thematic webinars aimed at raising awareness and sensitizing African citizens about the…

The negative implications of COVID-19 on international climate finance flows in Africa should be a wakeup call to African countries to shift from the model of oversees dependency, especially regarding issues central to Africa’s development such as funding for local climate adaptation and resilience     With the manufacturing aviation…

Nigeria’s quite proactive response to COVID-19 offers other African countries immense learning opportunities     On Friday, February 28, Nigeria confirmed its index case of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), making it the second African Union Member State (after Egypt) and the first in Sub Saharan Africa, to do so.…

The Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Wamkele Mene said on Tuesday that implementation of the free trade agreement will not be able to commence on July 1 due to the disruptions occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic.     “It is obviously not possible to commence…

African governments need to act now to ensure small-scale farming and food supply chains remain uninterrupted.     We have only just begun to see the far-ranging consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. Chief among those is the threat of a food crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Unless measures are…

The threats that are hanging over the African continent with regards to the spread of COVID-19 demand our individual and collective attention. The situation is critical.       Yet this is not about mitigating another ‘African’ humanitarian crisis but to diffuse the potentially damaging effects of a virus that…

The Africa We Want project consortium, an alliance of prominent Civil Society Organisations (CSO) working to advance the African Governance Architecture (AGA) and African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG), has called on heads of states and governments in Africa to ensure transparency in dealing with COVID-19 as well…

The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government Thursday held an extraordinary session through videoconference, during which the leaders jointly appointed President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria as champion of the battle against Covid-19 pandemic in the West African sub-region.     The Heads of State were said to have…