Here’s Why Thousands of Zimbabweans are Locked Out of Benefits
Being locked out of citizenship in the southern African country is an issue for an estimated 300,000 Zimbabweans, according to Amnesty International. Mashava has survived by street trading. Born in Chipinge to a Mozambican father who returned home and a Zimbabwean mother who died young, his five children are on track to inherit his statelessness. […]
How Lockdown Affected Family Planning across Africa
The Performance Monitoring for Action study conducts annual surveys on women’s reproductive health needs across sub-Saharan Africa. These surveys are generally done face-to-face by trained interviewers. But due to COVID-19 mitigation measures, normal procedures were not possible. Researchers conducted a phone-based survey from May to June 2020. The survey included questions specific to COVID-19 knowledge […]
Lilongwe Approves AstraZeneca to Fight Pandemic
In Malawi, a survey by the Ministry of Health to help ascertain the efficacy of AstraZeneca vaccine has shown its effectiveness in fighting the coronavirus. The survey was based on current hospital admissions of COVID-19 patients across the country. The preliminary results of the findings released Saturday were based on COVID-19 admissions between June 26 […]
Muted Celebrations for Abiy’s Landslide Win
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) overwhelmingly won general elections Saturday, meaning he will stay in power another term. Abiy’s party is expected take more than 410 of the 546 parliamentary seats in the first round of the contest, Ethiopia’s sixth national election. Opposition movements have raised concerns about the integrity of […]
Troops Deployed after a Weekend of Chaos in South Africa
South Africa deployed soldiers on Monday to quell violence that erupted following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma, after days of riots left at least six people dead. Smoke swirled from burning buildings as items from burgled shops lay strewn by the side of the road in Pietermaritzburg in Zuma’s home province of KwaZulu-Natal […]
