As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the creation of safe and effective vaccines to fight the virus within a year of the first reported cases is a huge scientific achievement. It has shifted the conversation from “if” there will be an end to the pandemic to “when.”
Even with vaccines being rolled out, we know that we won’t beat this disease fully until we beat it everywhere, so we need to ensure vaccines and medicines reach people at risk wherever they...
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A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter, and read on for how COVID-19 has accelerated learning poverty, where African stimulus money is going, and what’s happening to military spending.
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Through the cracks: Half the world’s 10-year-olds can’t read and understand a simple sentence. ONE, Save the Children, and the Global Partnership for Education launched a new tool this week called the Lost...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter here, and read on rising cases, variants, and vaccines — plus why vaccine policy is climate policy.
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“Aid for climate change should be given separately and not be part of official development assistance.”
— Cyril Ramaphosa at the Leaders Climate Summit
Africa’s youngest president: Idriss Déby was reportedly wounded and killed in the line of fire...
Facts from our Africa COVID-19 Tracker
Total population: 86,790,567
Percentage of population living in extreme poverty: 77.2%
People with insufficient food intake: 33.6% (latest: 3 March 2021)
Children (under 5) with acute malnutrition: 8.1%
Children (under 5) with chronic malnutrition: 42.7%
Country situation
Over the past 25 years, The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been challenged by armed conflict, widespread displacement, and many other crises. Militia, such as the Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have operated in the eastern region...
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Squeezing the middle: The global middle class shrank by 150 million people in 2020 as the pandemic ravaged the global economy, the first decline in nearly three decades. South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were hit the hardest. 1 in 3 Nigerians is out of work and the number of fully employed has decreased by half since 2015, a trend exacerbated by the pandemic. One-third of employed Nigerians live in extreme poverty, according to ONE’s Employment Dashboard.
Temporary infusion? The...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter here, and read on for ONE’s updated COVID-19 Tracker, who’s taking over the US global pandemic response efforts, and the world’s economic outlook.
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Torn in two: The IMF projects a stronger recovery for the global economy compared to its January forecast, with growth expected to be 6% in 2021. Upward revisions are mainly due...
Facts from our Africa COVID-19 Tracker
Total population: 13.1 million
Percentage of population living in poverty: 55%
Food inflation: 12.2% (latest: 30 December 2020)
People with insufficient food intake: 46.2% (latest: 14 Feb 2021)
Children (under 5) with acute malnutrition: 9.2%
Children (under 5) with chronic malnutrition: 30.3%
Economy
In terms of mineral wealth, Guinea is one of the richest countries in Africa. Nevertheless, 36.1% of the population live in poverty.. The country’s economy relies heavily on mining and agriculture. However,...
ONE’s debt donut shows that 80% debt service payments from poorer countries have not been suspended, despite warm words from the G20.
If the virus remains unchecked anywhere in the world, it will continue to breach borders, mutate, and severely impact the global economy. So how well are we doing in making sure everyone can access vaccines?
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19's impact in Africa.