COVID-19

Y-Peer volunteers wear protective gear as they assemble the dignity and hygiene kits.

Youth mobilize to support Egypt’s front-line health workers

Secretary-General António Guterres

Secretary-General: The pandemic, a wake-up call to understand that our assumptions and approaches have to change

It is the word “Yakaar” (hope in Wolof) that is boldly scrawled in capitals Dakar.

Ten Senegalese Artists Paint the World of Tomorrow on the Walls of Dakar

Nancy Abuya, medical doctor, Kenya

"More effort, training still needed to fight COVID-19"

— Dr. Nancy Abuya, Medical Doctor, Kenya

Mamina Bojang, Deputy Matron, the Gambia

"Together we can fight and defeat COVID-19"

Africa COVID-19

— Mamina Bojang, Deputy Matron, the Gambia

SME Competitiveness Outlook 2020

ITCnews: SME Competitiveness Outlook 2020 Report

Africa COVID-19

Secretary-General launches UN Comprehensive Response to COVID-19 to save lives, protect societies, recover better

Africa COVID-19

In the Somali region of Ethiopia, recurring droughts and locust invasions were already threatening food security. With COVID-19, the socio-economic impacts being felt across Ethiopia are wide-ranging and serious, with the potential to become severe, the r

UNDP: In Ethiopia, pandemic struck amid slowing growth, locust invasion, and disease outbreaks

Ms. Brema trains women in her village to become electricians.

Sahel project helps women raise themselves, their communities from poverty

Global call to fight infodemic

Mauritius, Senegal, South Africa among authors of global call against COVID-19 'infodemic'

Africa COVID-19

a cargo flight from WFP’s newly established Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège, Belgium arrived in Burkina Faso carrying almost 16 metric tons of medical cargo and personal protective equipment like masks and gloves on behalf of UNICEF and the Inte

WFP: Without funds, ‘no choice’ but to suspend most aid flights

Ensuring a steady flow of investments in Mozambique and Kenya will help manage the crisis.

Contributing to business continuity and national COVID-19 responses in the African continent

Africa COVID-19