Public Health
New cholera mapping initiative by the Africa CDC to focus on five African countries
Support offered to these countries includes identifying areas prone to cholera and developing their ability to use national and regional platforms to control and eliminate the disease
The economic pain caused by Covid-19 shows we need to reshape African cities
In Africa, lockdowns to control the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak will hurt urban families -- most of who depend on informal sector jobs -- the most. Therefore, reshaping African cities in the pandemic’s aftermath to ensure they can be engines of economic growth in the future, will be key