Coronavirus

Workers sew clothes inside the Indochine Apparel PLC textile factory in Hawassa Industrial Park in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples region

Step Change

Coordinated response can protect African garments industry from coronavirus fallout 1. Save #Ethiopia garment workers from the impact of #coronavirus by subsidising wages and retooling factories argue @dominicmcvey and @DWteVelde ...

Community Health

Zimbabwe is among African states least ready to tackle coronavirus Civil society must take the lead in the fight against Coronavirus in Africa’s weakest states.
Cameroon Election

Cameroon violence virus

Cameroon’s Anglophone regions hit by violence during partial legislative polls
In Nantong, China, employees of a pharmaceutical industry are busy producing chloroquine on February 27, 2020. © Xu Congjun/Utuku/ROPI-REA

virus Raoulted?

Coronavirus: 9 things to know about chloroquine

Coronavirus top stories

© Prudential sees health insurance as a growth market in Africa. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Stress Test

Premium badgePrudential says business growing across Africa, to roll out health-insurance app Global insurer Prudential has seen growth in premiums and numbers of policies sold across Africa this year, Eddie Brown, head of francophone Africa, t...
Streetlights illuminate the central business district in Cape Town

Red Tape Artists

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Tour operators sound the alert as bureaucracy chokes recovery South Africa risks shooting itself in the foot as regulatory failings for the licensing of tour operators cripple the industry’s capacity to respond t...

fears revived

Premium badgeShould we stop making a fuss about African debt? The economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis have revived fears about the indebtedness of African countries. Is this alarmism justified? We invest...

Coronavirus top stories

© Prudential sees health insurance as a growth market in Africa. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Stress Test

Premium badgePrudential says business growing across Africa, to roll out health-insurance app Global insurer Prudential has seen growth in premiums and numbers of policies sold across Africa this year, Eddie Brown, head of francophone Africa, t...
Streetlights illuminate the central business district in Cape Town

Red Tape Artists

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Tour operators sound the alert as bureaucracy chokes recovery South Africa risks shooting itself in the foot as regulatory failings for the licensing of tour operators cripple the industry’s capacity to respond t...

fears revived

Premium badgeShould we stop making a fuss about African debt? The economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis have revived fears about the indebtedness of African countries. Is this alarmism justified? We invest...

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© Passengers on the cruise liner MV AidAmira, quarantined in Cape Town on March 18. Cape Town was a point of entry into Africa for the Spanish Flu of 1918. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

When God Was Angry

Coronavirus: far to go before rivalling Spanish Flu of 1918 Spanish Flu decimated South Africa in 1918-19 – spurring the growth of the country’s life insurance industry.
Virus Outbreak Nigeria

Nigerian delay

Nigerian private sector needs to stay home 1. Although the first case of #coronavirus in the country was reported on 28 February, @MBuhari did not formally address his nation until nearly a mon...
General view shows customers shopping for essential commodities in the Naivas Supermarket in Nairobi

Kenyan cuts

Kenyan government agree to pay cuts, curfew imposed as coronavirus cases grow
Executive Governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kaduna, Nigeria

vulnerable regions

Nigeria’s north: Coronavirus in the world’s poverty capital So far Nigeria’s purported preparedness to contain the coronavirus pandemic is done through citing its successful response to the Ebola outbreak five ...
A worker picks flowers designated for export at a farm near the town of Thika © REUTERS/Baz Ratner

COVID-19 Bond

African Development Bank picks Citi for US dollar coronavirus bond sale
Coronavirus precautions in Tunisia

Lessons learned

Coronavirus: ‘Africans don’t repeat our mistakes!’ in open letter from Italy 1. ‘#africans don’t repeat our mistakes!’ says Italian journalist @AriannaPoletti in an open letter to #Africa on lessons learned in #CornavirusOutbre...