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What The 1918 Flu Can Teach Us About Handling Today’s Pandemic
Pranav Baskar, Emily Kwong | May 15, 2020 | NPR Just over a century ago, a virulent flu outbreak was wreaking havoc on the world. We know it now as the 1918 influenza pandemic, and its tremors were felt far and wide. By the end of its spread, tens of millions were dead. The field of public health has taken a giant leap from the days of 1918, when virology was still … [Read more...] about What The 1918 Flu Can Teach Us About Handling Today’s Pandemic
AU Leadership Absent From Egypt and Ethiopia Dam Dispute
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell | May 14, 202 | Council on Foreign Relations After years of negotiations, Egypt has written to the UN Security Council about what it considers to be Ethiopia’s failure to reach an agreement over the filling and operations of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The United States, Russia, and the World Bank, among others, … [Read more...] about AU Leadership Absent From Egypt and Ethiopia Dam Dispute
On Sustainable Development in Rural Ethiopia: Interview with Mitslal Kifleyesus-Matschie
30.Dec.2019 | Harvard International Review Harvard International Review: What motivated you to move on from your first career in arms control to found Ecopia?Mitslal Kifleyesus-Matschie: Well, it was connected to my first career. In my first career, I became successful because I convinced a number of African and Latin American nations to ratify the Chemical Weapons … [Read more...] about On Sustainable Development in Rural Ethiopia: Interview with Mitslal Kifleyesus-Matschie
African Nations Back WHO’s Tedros After Attacks by Trump, U.S.
Antony Sguazzin | May 15, 2020 | Bloomberg African nations rallied to the defense of World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after the body and its leader were rebuked by the U.S. for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. In a statement issued by the African Group of Ambassadors in Geneva, the nations also echoed calls by German … [Read more...] about African Nations Back WHO’s Tedros After Attacks by Trump, U.S.
Zimbabwe water shortages add plight to multiple crises
Water shortages are causing increased hardships for many, on top of coronavirus restrictions, unemployment and the crippling economic crisis. Al Jazeera's Raheela Mahomed reports. Water shortages are causing increased hardships for many, on top of coronavirus restrictions, unemployment and the crippling economic crisis. That is on top of coronavirus restrictions, … [Read more...] about Zimbabwe water shortages add plight to multiple crises
Africa facing a quarter of a billion coronavirus cases, WHO predicts
But continent will have fewer deaths than Europe and US because of its younger population and other lifestyle factors Karen McVeigh |Fri 15 May 2020 | The Guardian Nearly a quarter of a billion people across 47 African countries will catch coronavirus over the next year, but the result will be fewer severe cases and deaths than in the US and Europe, new research … [Read more...] about Africa facing a quarter of a billion coronavirus cases, WHO predicts
African nations find solutions to shortages in virus crisis
Carley Petesch |May 11, 2020 | Christian Science Monitor A loud hiss and grunt come from a green bag pressing air through a tube, as Senegalese researchers work to develop a prototype ventilator that could cost a mere $160 each instead of tens of thousands of dollars. The team is using 3-D printed parts as it works to find a homegrown solution to a medical shortfall … [Read more...] about African nations find solutions to shortages in virus crisis
What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus
Jina Moore | May 15, 2020 | The New Yorker n early March, Ingrid Gercama left her home in the Netherlands and flew to war-torn South Sudan. An applied-research anthropologist with a special interest in epidemics, she had spent time on the African continent during a public-health emergency before, remaining in Liberia, in 2014, during that country’s Ebola outbreak. When she … [Read more...] about What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus
What Kim Wants
The Hopes and Fears of North Korea’s Dictator Jung H. Pak | May/June 2020 | Foreign Affairs etween 2017 and 2019, relations between the United States and North Korea made for great television. Perhaps this was by design: U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to believe that any interactions between the two adversaries would be more successful—or at least play more to his … [Read more...] about What Kim Wants
Ethiopia Prohibits Company Layoffs Under State of Emergency
Samuel Gebre | April 11, 2020 | Bloomberg.com Ethiopia prohibited companies from laying off workers and terminating employment in measures introduced as part of a state of emergency to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The rules announced Saturday also ban meetings of more than four people for religious, government and other organizations, including political … [Read more...] about Ethiopia Prohibits Company Layoffs Under State of Emergency