Africa

Contact tracers are urgently being recruited, trained and deployed to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the challenges they face are similar to those in the earlier Ebola epidemic, including mistrust and misinformation.

Learning from Ebola experience, Liberia deploys contact tracers to break COVID-19 transmission

On 3 March, the World Health Organization published estimates that the global production of personal protective equipment would have to ramp up by 40% to meet the surge in international demand

Strengthening African value chains in medical supplies

Africa COVID-19

Doctors from Hôpital Régional d'Arta in Djibouti wearing 3D-printed face shields.

Digital space for migrants supplies 3D-printed face shields to hospitals treating COVID-19 cases in Djibouti

Africa COVID-19

IOM Mozambique conducts screening of migrant worker and miner communities for tuberculosis, HIV, hypertension and diabetes, Massinga, Inhambane Province.

Mozambican workers returning from South Africa engaged to check COVID-19's spread

Africa Mozambique

An internally displaced woman voluntarily returning to her home in Bentiu, South Sudan, is being checked for fever.

Peacekeepers help fragile countries navigate conflict and COVID-19

Africa COVID-19

Ms. Ardo Djibo Fadimatou who lost eight of her 15 ...

COVID-19: A double burden for women in conflict areas, on the frontline

Africa COVID-19

— Ibrahim Mayaki, chief executive officer of the the New Partnership for Africa’s Development

AUDA-NEPAD’s COVID-19 response plan aims to improve health access and protect economies

Young Gambian entrepreneurs now have a chance of winning grants up to GMD 500,000 to implement innovative solutions to address socioeconomic challenges to Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) caused by COVID-19.

EU, ITC, GCCI & Kanifing Municipal Council launch Challenge Fund for young entrepreneurs to tackle COVID-19 socio-economic challenges

Africa COVID-19

In Nigeria, the UN has been working with the government and others to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Bringing Nollywood star power to Nigeria’s fight against COVID-19

"#coronavirus is real. Keep safe," says #SouthSudan-ese musician Check B Magic.#COVID2019 #SSOT

Peacekeeping radio stations provide COVID-19 information to vulnerable communities in conflict-affected countries

Africa COVID-19

United Nations Peacekeeper.

“Protect, Help, Explain”: UN Peacekeeping responds to COVID-19

Africa COVID-19

COVID-19 in Africa: Protecting Lives and Economies

ECA Report: COVID-19 in Africa: Protecting Lives and Economies

Africa COVID-19