Given the enormity of the catastrophe that could befall Africa should the continent experience a full-scale outbreak of the epidemic, we deem it necessary to address the African Union on a number of urgent issues....
Eritrea had experienced low economic growth rates in recent years that had impacted on its status as a least developed and economically fragile country. Experts had recently, however, predicted a positive economic outlook in the coming years with upward growth forecasts for 2020 and 2021. This (...)
Following the announcement of the first case of COVID-19 on 19th March, 2020 in Chad, the country had as of March 28 recorded 715 cases with 359 recoveries and 64 deaths. The competent authorities have taken a series of measures to limit the spread of the virus. At a time when some countries (...)
The Sudanese people, after months of sustained protests across the cities and streets of the country in 2019, successfully got rid of President Omar Ahmed al-Bashir in an unarmed revolution. The country was gradually settling into her strides to consolidate the revolution when this was (...)
South Sudan, the youngest republic in Africa, has a population of about 11 million people and immense natural resources. It is recovering from a long civil war of almost seven years after the separation from Sudan. It has been plagued by destabilization, rebellions and militias and is marked (...)
On February 14, 2020, the Egyptian Ministry of Health announced the first case of COVID-19 in the country detected at The Cairo international airport involving a Chinese national. As of May 30, 2020, Egypt had 22,082 confirmed cases with 5,511 recoveries and 879 deaths.
The great fragility (...)