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COVID-19 complicates education
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Pandemic widens education gap as it impacts rural and disadvantaged children further. The scene looks like a typical telephone call centre. Women and men sit before computers, headsets pinned to their ears, mouth-pieces ready and light projectors…
Morocco to Kick Off Mass Vaccination Plan with Chinese Drug
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Morocco is gearing up for an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination program, aiming to vaccinate 80% of its adults in an operation starting this month that's relying initially on a Chinese vaccine that has not yet completed advanced trials to prove it is…
ICL: Only 2% of COVID-19 deaths recorded in Khartoum
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A report from the Imperial College London (ICL) COVID-19 Response Team in collaboration with multiple partners, revealed on Tuesday that an estimated two per cent of COVID-19 deaths have been reported in Khartoum, while the Sudanese Minister of…
Proparco puts extra €1B into Macron's plan for African entrepreneurs
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BRUSSELS — France’s private sector development arm, Proparco, announced €1 billion ($1.2 billion) to support African entrepreneurs this week, expanding the Choose Africa initiative launched by President Emmanuel Macron three years ago. The money,…
COVID-19 Hits the Poor Harder, but Scaled-Up Testing Can Help
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Across the world, poor neighborhoods have experienced more COVID-19
COVID-19 could push the number of people living in extreme poverty to over 1 billion by 2030, says UNDP study
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Focused SDG investments over the next decade could prevent the rise of extreme poverty and even exceed the development trajectory the world was on before the pandemic
How Ethiopia prepared its health workforce for the COVID-19 response
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In a busy intensive care unit in Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Dr Samuel Getnet, 28, a newly-recruited young and energetic physician anxiously monitors the mechanical ventilators, an indispensable form of life support for COVID-19…
A Group of Mothers in This Malawi Community Helped Keep Girls in School During COVID-19
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UNFPA trained the Mpapa mothers’ group to mentor girls on reproductive health. In a year of little good news, pockets of Malawi are bucking an uncomfortable trend. A significant number of girls were dropping out of school each year to marry early…