Africa UN Knowledge Hub for COVID-19

Around the world, the pandemic, and the measures taken to address it, have had far reaching effects on poverty, inequality, and governance.

pandemic brought unprecedented disruptions to Africa—reducing earnings and increasing poverty and food insecurity as well as leading the region into its first recession in 25 years.

COVID-19 has now left many workers around the world in the lurch. In 2020, lost working hours totalled around 255 million full time jobs, which is four times the losses during the 2009 global financial crisis.

Since early 2020 education systems around the world have rolled out emergency remote learning strategies at an unprecedented scale. What have the past eighteen months taught policymakers and practitioners about the delivery, take-up and effectiveness of remote learning?

Researching and discovering new COVID-19 variants takes a global effort and is a valuable tool to help explain the spread of a virus.

COVID-19’s “double shock”—health and economic—has intensified the need for new evidence to understand jobs and livelihoods in Nigeria.

A one-stop informational resource with real-time updates on travel restrictions due to COVID-19. Here’s the latest on safari travel to Africa

As we come to yet another World AIDS Day couched in the context of COVID, it is easy to despair. But that despondency is based, in part, on the juxtaposition of the fights against the two viruses

The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to Africa’s sustainable development prospects. The pandemic has reversed progress on the overarching goal of eradicating poverty in all its forms everywhere

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed our continent’s vulnerabilities in ensuring access to vital drugs, vaccines, and health technologies.