Editorial: Post-covid and a brave new world
This editorial is written from Johannesburg as the third wave of coronavirus infections subsides –...
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Category: AIF Issue 59
Africa and vaccine economics
Africa’s fortunes in a post-COVID world will depend on how it navigates the critical...
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African authoritarianism: COVID rules should be regularly reviewed, not normalised
On 11 March, 2020, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health...
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Africa’s policies must leverage pandemic-created opportunities
Two meetings of African leaders in May and July on the region’s post-pandemic economic...
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After COVID it’s time for Africa’s green revolution
The continent is looking to put the green agenda at the heart of its COVID-19 economic recovery,...
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Crunch time for Africa’s health systems
In November 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa convened...
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Regional integration a must in post-COVID Africa
Regional integration helps countries overcome divisions that impede the flow of goods, services,...
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Africa is tough for small business but COVID-19 has created opportunities too
Africa is a tough place for small businesses, given its high-cost operating environments, onerous...
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Africa’s dual catastrophe of COVID-19 and water and food insecurity
Food and water insecurity have saddled Africa with a risk tantamount to a pandemic, but the...
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Africa’s informal traders adapt to hostile COVID environment
By the beginning of July 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had gripped the world, shutting...
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The pandemic has boosted Africa’s digital transformation
Africa’s opportunity to transform itself into a “cyber-continent”,...
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Africa’s high youth unemployment a security threat post COVID
The youth make up 75% of sub-Saharan Africa’s total population. Even at a broader level,...
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