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....
Mauritania moved quickly to address the health crisis once COVID-19 reared its head in the country. As soon as the first case appeared on Friday March 13, 2020 the Mauritanian authorities began to implement measures to respond as best as possible to the pandemic. As of May 25, 2020, the (...)
Morocco joined early the league of African nations that received the coronavirus. Following the announcement of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 on March 02, 2020, Morocco implemented a major response plan to fight against the spread of the virus and to cope with the economic and social (...)
The COVID-19 pandemic reached Malawi in the context of a major political contestation and turmoil. In February, 2020 the country’s constitutional court nullified the results of the disputed May 2019 presidential elections due to “severe irregularities”. The judges ordered fresh elections that (...)
Already plagued by insecurity arising from terrorist attacks since 2012, Mali has been further destabilized by the COVID-19 health crisis. Since March 25, 2020 when the first two cases (two Malians who returned from France in mid-March) of the coronavirus were confirmed, the numbers have (...)
Liberia suffered two major civil wars between 1989 and 2003 that killed well over 400,000 thousand people. Still fragile from the war, the country was hit eleven years later by the Ebola virus epidemic in 2014 which lasted till 2015. A poor country struggling to recover from the devastation (...)