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Extreme Weather: Africa Bridges Gap On Early Warning

May 7, 2022 3:16 am

African countries have resolved to bridge the gap on early warning and early action regarding extreme weather conditions on the continent.

Prof. Mansur Matazu, the Director-General, Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), made this known at the closing of a two-day regional forum hosted by Nigeria.

Bodies involved in the forum are Intra-ACP Climate Services and Related Application Programmes (CLIMSA) Committee, and the Governing Board of African Centre of the Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD).

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Such efforts, Matazu said, would curtail damages in all 54 African countries coming together under ACMAD as …

South Africa Opens Borders To African Countries, Limits Others

October 1, 2020 2:52 pm

South Africa will reopen its borders to all African countries from Thursday while barring tourists from around 50 nations with high coronavirus infection rates, the government said on Wednesday.

The continent’s most industrialised economy shuttered its borders at the start of a strict nationwide lockdown on March 27 to limit the spread of the virus.

Restrictions on movement and business have been gradually eased since June, but borders stayed sealed to avoid importing the virus from abroad.

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Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said the country would “gradually” open borders, but …

African Countries Lobby For UN Probe Of American Systemic Racism

June 16, 2020 12:35 pm

African countries are lobbying to set up a U.N. inquiry into “systemic racism” and “police brutality” in the United States and elsewhere, aiming to defend the rights of people of African descent.

Reuters reported on a draft resolution circulating among diplomats in Geneva, which voices alarm at “recent incidents of police brutality against peaceful demonstrators defending the rights of Africans and of people of African descent”.

The resolution is due to be considered at an urgent debate of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday.

The 47-member Council agreed on Tuesday to convene at the request of Burkina Faso on …

African Countries Call For Racism Debate At UN Rights Council

June 13, 2020 3:29 pm

African countries called Friday on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently debate racism and police brutality amid the unrest in the US and beyond over George Floyd’s death.

In a letter written on behalf of 54 African countries, Burkina Faso’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva asked the UN’s top rights body for an “urgent debate” on “racially inspired human rights violations, police brutality against people of African descent and the violence against the peaceful protests that call for these injustices to stop.”

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The letter, addressed to rights council …

WHO Africa Records 5,013 Confirmed Cases, 157 Deaths

Africa Records 5,013 Confirmed Cases, 157 Deaths – WHO

March 31, 2020 1:49 pm

The World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are now 5,013 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 46 African countries.

The UN’s health agency gave the update in its regional official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Tuesday.

The agency said: “There are a total of 5,013 confirmed coronavirus cases across 46 countries on the African continent with a total of 157 deaths reported.

“South Africa currently has the highest in the region with 1,326 cases and three deaths, Algeria 511 cases with 31 deaths and Burkina Faso has 246 confirmed cases with 12 deaths.

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After Head Start On Coronavirus, Africa Begins Clampdown

March 17, 2020 5:04 pm

African countries have been among the last to be hit by the global coronavirus epidemic but as cases rise, many nations are now taking strict measures to block the deadly illness.

Here is a snapshot of the situation on a continent plagued by weak health systems and shortages of doctors and hospital beds, but where many countries have top-level expertise in fighting contagious disease.

– Slow to arrive, but now spreading –

The first case in Africa was recorded in Egypt on February 14, and by early March there were only two more cases in Algeria and Nigeria.

Experts initially …