coronavirus

Farmers wear masks during a Farmer Field School session on COVID-19 prevention in Malanje Province, Lombe community. Angola has very few cases of COVID-19, and FAO together with the Angolan government, is working to keep it that way

Stopping COVID-19 from reaching family farmers in Angola

Information campaign helps rural communities protect themselves against coronavirus

Children at an internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

Conflict-hit Nigerian families living under COVID-19 lockdowns, on ‘life-support’

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Malian refugees seek shelter in Télemsès, Niger, after violence has escalated in the Sahel region.

Amid COVID-19 and climate change, UNHCR appeals for $186 million for Sahel refugee and displacement crisis

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Girls washing dishes in Lome, Togo.

Coronavirus: Let’s not forget the world’s poorest countries

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-Paul Akiwumi, Director of UNCTAD’s Division for Africa and Least Developed Countries

The 2019 Index, which builds on the first edition published in 2016, provides up-to-date data on the status and progress of regional integration in Africa.

New report calls on Africa to build resilient economies through integration

IOM medical staff training personnel at the Quarantine Centre in Addis Ababa.

IOM Ethiopia assists hundreds of returning COVID-19 affected migrants

The economic contraction projected for 2020 as a result of the pandemic would disproportionately affect the poor and vulnerable, small and informal businesses, and small-scale agricultural producers

COVID-19 could prove “disastrous” for Zimbabwe, UNDP study finds

Targeted measures and a crackdown on illicit financial flows will help

Placed at the centre of their national or local business ecosystem, the consular chambers¹ in Africa have effectively been mobilized to mitigate the effects the COVID-19 pandemic has on businesses.

Consular chambers to the rescue of businesses: The COVID-19 crisis in French-speaking Africa

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Handover of consumable medical equipment to St. Paul's Hospital

Free medical care for migrants in new IOM Ethiopia partnership

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IOM facilitated the voluntary return of 179 Malian migrants stranded in Niger.

IOM Niger: assisted voluntary return for stranded Malians; Over 1,400 remain in transit centers

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Ibrahima Sow, a Senegalese returnee, dressed up to show his work as a market gardener.

Climate Change and COVID-19 Impact Agriculture and Youth Mobility Across West and Central Africa

A woman carries sacks of seeds distributed to families in South Sudan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Secretary-General: Act now to avert COVID-19 global food emergency

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