The Covid-19 crisis is first and foremost a health and humanitarian crisis that we are all living through, which is likely to have lasting impacts on how we live. It is also likely to have a lasting...

If you live in a township, make a living in the informal sector, or travel on a crowded bus, how do you self-quarantine?

Since reporting its first case of COVID-19 on 5 March, South Africa now has the highest number of infections in sub-Saharan Africa. To prevent the further spread of the coronavirus, the country is...

“If I use the one bucket of water to do laundry then I remain without water to cook and wash hands”

The media is regurgitating an international narrative that may not be fit for localised purpose.

Guest post from Mwanahamisi Singano, a feminist activist  Member of FEMNET The world is witnessing an unprecedent health pandemic.  With more than 440,318 confirmed cases of COVID19 across the world,...

Activists and researchers from across Africa speak about the impact of Covid-19 on their countries. Writing from Kenya, South Africa, Burkina Faso and Nigeria and Zimbabwe, Femi Aborisade, Heike...

We know what will happen with this new virus, and so I cannot blissfully self-isolate.

South Africa has conducted 100 times more coronavirus tests than Nigeria

Yomi Kazeem is a reporter at Quartz, covering Africa-specific stories on politics and how it intersects with business, innovation, startups and culture. He graduated from Babcock University with a...

1. #Nigeria looks to stave off the #coronavirus from the north where its effects will likely be devastating says @sadaoverall 2. “So far #Nigeria’s purported preparedness to contain the #

False information in Nigeria is undermining medical advice, proffering fake cures, inciting panic and being used for political point-scoring. The global COVID-19 pandemic is happening at a time when...

Keep a distance from each other. Work from home. Or rely on a social safety net. The measures against the coronavirus pandemic are made by and for those parts of the world that can afford to retreat...

Coronavirus has given President Yoweri Museveni an opportunity to further clamp down on freedoms

"Africa can't do this or that". "It's too poor to afford such and such". "It's too social". At the core of these views is the pathologising of Africans.

How South African citizens, the police and the army, and politicians behave during the 21-day lockdown will have far-reaching implications for our democracy

A running series of brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak with regular updates from around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas...

Sibandas, Clarity and Mukasiri It seems like the donation made by the Chinese billionaire, Jack Ma, has given an adrenaline shot to government’s efforts to control the scourge of coronavirus. Witho…

ACMS Masters student Shireen Mukadam speaks to the poor about the impact of the coronavirus and the national lockdown on their lives.

What are the roles of the African Union and the African Center for Disease Control in responding to COVID-19?

By Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, Ph.D. Constructive transnational leadership and policy coordination are two main ingredients needed to fight the current Coronavirus pandemic. On the one hand, we can...

Coronavirus-linked flight restrictions are hampering efforts to wipe out locust swarms on the verge of devastating crops in eastern Africa, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.

There are three steps governments across Africa can take to avoid COVID-19 spreading through over-crowded prisons. Across the continent, prisons are overcrowded. They exceed capacity and are under-...

As market vendors are beaten and the sick unable to move to hospitals, the wealthy prepare for the long-haul in their solar-powered homes.

La crise du COVID-19 constitue un véritable défi pour l'Afrique. La RDC saura t'elle résister aux sirènes d'un durcissement de l'autoritarisme.

Good design principles and simple measures to prevent the spread COVID-19 inspired by African traditional health centers

The Covid-19 pandemic is throwing the poor governance of some African countries into sharp relief

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to mount reaching a million people on 2 April, we take a look at how COVID-19 is affecting the continent socially and economically and even culturally.

Le confinement ; un mot que l'on entend sortir de toutes les bouches en ces temps de coronavirus. À l'instar des pays riches, ceux du continent ...

There hasn't been a pandemic control that has succeeded without social capital. How Kenya and Africa will deal with this pandemic will squarely depend on the strength, resilience and adaptability of...

In tackling COVID-19, the Kenyan government appears to be oblivious to the needs of the majority of citizens. What do "social distancing" and "self-quarantine" mean in urban areas where slum dwellers...

Lagos poses a set of particular challenges when it comes to making interventions work.

Some of you will have watched the short clip of Vivian Balakrishnan the foreign affairs minister for Singapore who argues that the…

While it may seem the coronavirus is reaching Africa more slowly than other regions, Human Rights Watch Africa Director Mausi Segun fears it could soon ravage the continent.

For Africa, where most countries have relatively weak health systems, the slow arrival of COVID-19 has bought precious time to prepare.

The first in our series on Women, Justice and Law Series: The Feminine Face of COVID-19.

Panic brings out the worst in us. Instead let’s spread courage and solidarity, says poet and author Ben Okri

The country must not forget Amged el-Hawrani and other foreign-born health workers who have died on the frontline, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik