Some of the measures adopted by states to combat the Covid-19 pandemic pose challenges to non-citizens, particularly refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants. As noted by the Assistant Commissioner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), “not only have national responses to Covid-19 led to the denial of fundamental refugee rights, but they have also […]
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Harnessing the Capacities of Community Health Workers to Prevent the Spread of Covid-19 in Kenya’s Urban Informal Settlements
This essay considers the role that community health workers (CHWs) can play in preventing the spread, and reducing the adverse impact, of Covid-19 on Kenya’s urban informal settlements. It argues that CHWs can make a significant contribution to efforts aimed at reducing such impacts due to their proximity to the grassroots. In Kenya, the number […]
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Covid-19 in Africa: Youth at the Fore
Covid-19 is among the deadliest pandemics the world has experienced in recent history. The African continent has, thus far, fared comparatively well with just under 150,000 confirmed infections and about 5,000 fatalities as of early June 2020.1The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking this data. For more information, see https://africacdc.org/covid-19/. Even so, the […]
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by Roseanne Njiru
Harnessing the Capacities of Community Health Workers to Prevent the Spread of Covid-19 in Kenya’s Urban Informal Settlements
This essay considers the role that community health workers (CHWs) can play in preventing the spread, and reducing the adverse impact, of Covid-19 on Kenya’s urban informal settlements. It argues that CHWs can make a significant contribution to efforts aimed at reducing such impacts due to their proximity to the grassroots. In Kenya, the number […]
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by Alcinda Honwana and Nyeleti Honwana
Covid-19 in Africa: Youth at the Fore
Covid-19 is among the deadliest pandemics the world has experienced in recent history. The African continent has, thus far, fared comparatively well with just under 150,000 confirmed infections and about 5,000 fatalities as of early June 2020.1The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking this data. For more information, see https://africacdc.org/covid-19/. Even so, the […]
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by David Ngendo-Tshimba
Coronized Lives in Response to Covid-19: Hopeful Lockdown or Haplessness?
Introduction The prolonged Covid-19 lockdown in Uganda is exacting a huge toll on the people’s resilience. Although the pandemic is global, it is experienced differentially in various countries and locales around the world. Preventive measures such as lockdowns have a long history as nonpharmaceutical interventions to blunt the force of extreme mortality events. However, there […]
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by Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka
Between Religious Freedom and the Public Good: Reactions to Religious Restrictions to Prevent the Spread of Covid-19 in Nigeria
Background: Covid-19 in Nigeria Nigeria confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on February 27, 2020, when an Italian citizen on a business trip from Milan who had arrived in Lagos on February 25 tested positive for the virus. By March 22, when governments at both the federal and state levels began to intensify measures to […]
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by Redie Bereketeab
Covid-19 and Eritrea’s Response
The challenge of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic is immense for poor countries like Eritrea. Eritrea has always depended on its people in responding to crises situations.1Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban, “Eritrean President Likens Coronavirus to ‘Sudden War’ of Historic Dimension,” Africanews, April 18, 2020, https://www.africanews.com/2020/04/18/eritrea-s-coronavirus-rules-chinese-italians-iranians-to-be-quarantined/. This time, Eritreans are being effectively mobilized to confront the […]
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by Duncan Omanga and Bartholomew Ondigo
Sub-Saharan Africa Will Most Likely Ride Out the Covid-19 Storm
Amid the ongoing Covid-19 carnage, there are fears that Africa will be blown apart by the virus. World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a chilling warning to African countries: “The best advice for Africa is to prepare for the worst.”1“Burkina Faso Reports Sub-Saharan Africa’s First Coronavirus Death as WHO Warns ‘Prepare […]
