by African Arguments on August 9, 2020 at 7:26 am

[African Arguments] For decades, Asian-Africans were both victims and agents of colonial racism. This history still reverberates today.

by The Conversation Africa on August 9, 2020 at 6:54 am

[The Conversation Africa] The COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent public health response of lockdown has brought into sharp relief the constraints faced by women across the board.

by The Conversation Africa on August 9, 2020 at 6:53 am

[The Conversation Africa] The predation of livestock by carnivores, and the retaliatory killing of carnivores as a result, is a major global conservation challenge. Such human-wildlife conflicts are a key driver of large carnivore declines and the costs of coexistence are often disproportionately borne by rural communities in the global south.

by Africa Renewal on August 9, 2020 at 6:41 am

[Africa Renewal] The risk of COVID-19 infection from breastfeeding is negligible and has never been documented, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, in a call for greater support for the practice.

by allAfrica on August 8, 2020 at 4:03 pm

[allAfrica] This week is World Breastfeeding Week, a flagship campaign of the International Confederation of Midwives.

by allAfrica on August 7, 2020 at 8:48 pm

[allAfrica] Cape Town — Malaria deaths in Africa could double this year if the coronavirus pandemic is allowed to disrupt malaria prevention and treatment initiatives, say researchers from Imperial College, London.

by allAfrica on August 7, 2020 at 7:45 pm

[allAfrica] Washington, DC — Repairing U.S. relations with key African countries must be a priority for the next administration, if Joseph Biden wins the November election, senior Democrats said during an online fundraiser last week.

by Institute for Economics and Peace on August 7, 2020 at 3:08 pm

[Institute for Economics and Peace] Global peacefulness has deteriorated over the past year, with this being the fourth time in the last five years that the world has seen a fall in peacefulness.

by allAfrica on August 7, 2020 at 2:54 pm

[allAfrica] Cape Town — South Africa, Cote d’Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea have become more peaceful in the past year, but the situations in Benin and Niger have deterioriated, according to the latest results of a survey which ranks nations for “peacefulness”.

by Cameroon Tribune on August 7, 2020 at 11:52 am

[Cameroon Tribune] Governors of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund brainstormed on August 6, in the 2020 African Causus Meeting hosted in Yaounde through virtual format.

by ISS on August 7, 2020 at 11:29 am

[ISS] The sudden resignation of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) director-general, the Brazilian Roberto Azevêdo, has created both opportunity and challenges for Africa. Of the eight candidates to replace Azevêdo, three are African: former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; former Kenyan foreign minister and WTO General Council chairperson Amina Mohamed; and Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh, an Egyptian lawyer and erstwhile WTO official.