In Nigeria, it is perhaps not the best of times to be a journalist or civil rights activist going by the spate of attacks on freedom of the press and speech.
Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic and the impact it is having on countries across the globe mirrors significantly the question:
As a country under Western sanctions, Zimbabwe has failed to obtain significant financial bail-outs from major multilateral lenders to fight the disease, but China has stood behind the country, offering the much-needed assistance that has helped strengthen the country’s response to the pandemic.
The Republic of Somaliland is a sovereign, democratic State in the Horn of Africa, sharing its borders with Djibouti to the West, Ethiopia to the South, Somalia to the East and the Gulf of Aden to the North, with the coastline of 850 km.
Many African countries today are still battling with colonial borders that were arbitrarily delineated at the close of the 19th century by those who had no knowledge about, or had never set foot in, Africa
Since ancient times Egyptians depend on the Nile as demands for water is rapidly increasing in response to growing population, industrialization, food production and employment generation. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote, “Egypt is the gift of Nile”.
Once completed, the reservoir could take anywhere between 5 and 15 years to fill with water, depending on hydrologic conditions during the filling period and agreements reached between Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt.
The National Patriotic Party (NPP), the political party that currently holds political power in Ghana, recently held a fiercely contested primary elections to elect new parliamentary candidates for the December General Elections this year.
The Democratic Republic of Congo faces the worst threat of all the time amidst battling the global pandemic.
The robots donated to the Rwanda’s Health Ministry by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Rwandan Ministry of ICT and innovation will be mainly used for temperature checks, monitor patient’s status and keep medical records of COVID-19 patients.