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Speak Up Africa, the Dakar, Senegal-based nonprofit working to catalyze dialogues, drive policy changes and create awareness on health and sanitation issues in Africa, has launched a continent-wide campaign against COVID-19 tagged: “Stay Safe Africa,” focused on empowering communities to take action against the deadly novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).     …

The international community will Wednesday commemorate the 2020 International Mother Earth Day, celebrated every April 22, to raise global public awareness on challenges to the well-being of the planet and all the life it supports. This year’s celebration marks the 50th anniversary of the day’s commemoration.     The Earth…

The covid-19 pandemic has dealt a severe injury to Africa’s development prospects and worsened the conditions of its poor and vulnerable. Although there are calls for voluntary international aid to support the continent during this difficult time, this is far from the best solution.   Today, Africa is home to…

As the West focuses on its own survival, Africans have the opportunity to complete what their ancestors started.     The Western “brand” is suffering from what many see as a “slow and haphazard” response by Western governments to the COVID-19 outbreak. As the epicentre of the pandemic moved from…

Trading under the AfCFTA Agreement is meant to begin on 1 July 2020. But the AfCFTA State Parties still have critical issues to address to create an integrated, active and efficient AfCFTA market.       Where are we with the AfCFTA? The Agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade…

In fact, Africa and the Global South can teach the rest some lessons.      It was inevitable that racism would rear its ugly head. Having previously documented the long and shameful history of unethical drug testing on communities of colour across the globe, I was not surprised earlier this month when…

Covid-19 is like a drama in which each act eclipses the one before. First, it was Wuhan. Then it moved to Europe. Now it’s accelerating in the United States. But the act that could overshadow all is when Covid-19 takes off in Africa.     Unless extremely fast action is…

Kyeretwie Akwasi Osei, head of programmes at the African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU ECOSOCC), speaks about AU ECOSOCC’s partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB) in support of the continental response to COVID-19     Newspage: Can you share with us AU ECOSOCC’s plans in terms of…

The appointment of twenty-three-year-old Emma Theofelus as Member of Parliament and deputy minister for Information and Communications Technology in the Republic of Namibia made her the country’s youngest MP cum Africa’s youngest minister.     On March 23, Emma Theofelus, the 23-year-old Namibian lawyer and social justice activist, was appointed…

The coronavirus will challenge African economies already saddled with debt, shrinking budget revenue, and compromised health systems. A continent-wide approach that applies lessons learned in Liberia during the Ebola outbreak and elsewhere during the current pandemic will be needed to prevent fiscal ruin.   As COVID-19 crisscrosses Africa, and policymakers…