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20 April 2020
www.newtimes.co.rw
Getting timely, accurate data to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control in Africa is critical for the success of global efforts, experts said on Monday, April 20.
20 April 2020
www.informaria.com/
20 April 2020
ba.n1info.com
20 April 2020
afrique.latribune.fr
Depuis la découvre février dernier du premier cas de contamination confirmé sur le continent, les Etats et les gouvernements africains mènent une course contre la montre pour circonscrire l'impact humain, social et économique de la pandémie.
18 April 2020
www.monitor.co.ug
Over 300,000 Africans could lose their lives to COVID-19, according to a report by The Economic Commission for Africa.
18 April 2020
https://maghrebemergent.info
La commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA) tire la sonnette d’alarme sur la fragilité des systèmes de santé et des économies des pays africains . Selon un rapport publié vendredi 17 avril à Addis-Abeba, par la CEA, « entre 300 000 et 3 300 000 Africains pourraient perdre la vie à cause du COVID-19, en fonction des mesures prises pour stopper la propagation du virus ».
18 April 2020
fr.hespress.com
L’organisme régional de l’ONU (Organisation des Nations Unies), la Commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA), affirme dans son nouveau rapport sur la pandémie du coronavirus (Covid-19)
18 April 2020
ethiopianmonitor.com
ADDIS ABABA – A new initiative to strengthen Africa’s data ecosystems in the face of COVID-19 unvailed on Saturday by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD).
18 April 2020
allafrica.com
Joint press release) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) have unveiled an initiative to strengthen Africa's data ecosystems in the face of COVID-19.
17 April 2020
www.un.org/africarenewal
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in a new report on the coronavirus pandemic, says over 300,000 Africans could lose their lives due to COVID-19. This, as the pandemic continues to impact on the Continent’s struggling economies whose growth is expected to slow down from 3.2 percent to 1.8 percent in a best-case scenario, pushing close to 27 million people into extreme poverty.
17 April 2020
www.alaraby.co.uk
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa has warned that more than 300,000 Africans may die of the new Corona virus, which has struck 52 of 54 countries on the continent, while more than 18,000 people have been confirmed with the virus. According to a new report, citing a model prepared by the "London Imperial College", it is possible that Africa can witness about 300 thousand...
17 April 2020
www.aa.com.tr
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa has warned that between 300,000 and 3.3 million people will die in the continent if the necessary measures are not taken in the face of the Corona pandemic.
This came in a report prepared by the committee on the effects of the pandemic on economic and social life, in which it stated that the negative effects of the epidemic are inevitable even if...
17 April 2020
www.youm7.com
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa appreciated that more than 300,000 Africans could lose their lives due to the Corona virus 19, while the pandemic continues to affect the troubled economies of the continent whose growth is expected to slow from 2.3% to 1.8% in the best Scenario, what drives nearly 27 million people into extreme poverty.
17 April 2020
https://mobile.ghanaweb.com
Without adequate intervention measures, estimates show that between 300,000 and 3.3 million African people could lose their lives due to Coronavirus, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said in a report on Friday.
17 April 2020
https://aip.ci/
Plus de 300 000 africains pourraient perdre la vie à cause de la pandémie du nouveau coronavirus (COVID-19), selon un rapport de la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique (CEA-ONU), basée à Addis-Abeba.
17 April 2020
http://reussirbusiness.com
La Commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA), dans un nouveau rapport sur la pandémie de coronavirus, affirme qu’il se peut que 300 000 Africains perdent la vie à cause de la maladie. Ceci, alors que la pandémie continue d’avoir un impact sur les économies en difficulté du continent dont la croissance ralentira de 3,2 pourcent à 1,8 pourcent dans le meilleur des cas, plongeant près de 27...
17 April 2020
www.ezega.com
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in a new report on the coronavirus pandemic, says over 300,000 Africans could lose their lives due to COVID-19.
17 April 2020
https://weetracker.com
Before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Africa was trying to stand on its feet in a variety of ways. Not only was the continent financially unprepared, its weak health systems have now proven somewhat inefficient to tackle to crisis.
17 April 2020
www.ft.com
This week’s G20 deal to suspend debt repayments for the world’s poorest countries falls far short of what is needed and ignores the plight of many other developing economies which are also struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, according to a growing number of critics.
17 April 2020
www.china.org.cn
More than 300,000 people in Africa could lose their lives due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) said in a report on Friday.
17 April 2020
www.aa.com.tr
Without adequate intervention measures, estimates show that between 300,000 and 3.3 million African people could lose their lives due to coronavirus, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said in a report on Friday.
17 April 2020
www.npr.org
So far, countries on the African continent have largely managed to dodge the brunt of the coronavirus. Even as the global pandemic has besieged medical centers in the U.S. and Western Europe, with a total death toll north of 100,000 in those regions, all of Africa's confirmed cases number in the thousands — most of which remain concentrated in just a handful of North African nations.