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Africa Economy LifestyleHow to Think About Africa’s “Rising Middle Class” Amid COVID-19

PilotnewsJuly 7, 2020

Conventional wisdom is that Africa’s rising middle class is the engine for economic and social development, that its trajectory has been positive, and that the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously compromised the success of the middle class. However, on a continent of 1.3 billion people resident in more than fifty countries, this trope, much of it based on feel-good anecdotes, may obscure more than it illuminates. What is Africa’s middle class, how large was it before COVID-19, and was...

Africa Coronavirus NewsEgypt Sees Highest Daily COVID-19 Recoveries, Fewer Infections, Deaths

PilotnewsJuly 6, 2020

Egypt witnessed a record 623 daily recoveries from COVID-19 on Sunday, raising the total number of the recovered cases in the country to 20,726, said the health ministry. Meanwhile, the country reported 1,218 new COVID-19 infections, the lowest since June 19, raising the total cases registered since mid-February to 75,253, Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed said in a statement. Egypt also saw 63 fatalities from coronavirus on Sunday, the least since June 14, increasing the...

Africa Coronavirus EducationS. Africa Announces Further Reopening of Schools Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

PilotnewsJuly 6, 2020

South Africa will further reopen its schools in line with its phased-in reopening strategy amid an upsurge in confirmed COVID-19 cases, the government announced on Sunday. Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, who made this known in a statement, said that from July 6, schools would reopen for Grades R, 6 and 11 learners. Motshekga added that provinces that were not ready to receive Grade R on July 6 must provide strategic and realisable plans...

Africa NewsUganda Reopens Borders to Receive Refugees From DR Congo

PilotnewsJuly 1, 2020

Uganda, on Wednesday, temporarily opened its borders to receive thousands of people fleeing deadly ethnic clashes in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a spokesperson for the United Nations refugee agency said. Hilary Onek, Uganda’s Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, launched a three-day exercise to receive and provide asylum to an estimated 10,000 refugees in the northwest border district of Zombo. Duniya Aslam Khan, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...

Africa Coronavirus NewsCOVID-19: Africa Records Over 400,000 Cases, 10,000 Deaths

PilotnewsJuly 1, 2020

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are over 400,000 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa. The UN health agency gave the update on its regional official Twitter account — @WHOAFRO on Wednesday. It noted that “there are over 400,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent- with more than 190,000 recoveries and 10,000 deaths.” The regional office stated that South Africa has 151,209 cases and 2,657...

Africa NewsThousands of Sudanese Rally for Faster Reform After Bashir Ouster

PilotnewsJune 30, 2020

Tens of thousands demonstrated on Tuesday in Sudanese cities despite a coronavirus lockdown to demand greater civilian rule in the transition towards democracy after the ouster of veteran strongman Omar al-Bashir in 2019. Waving Sudanese flags, protesters gathered in Khartoum and its twin cities Khartoum North and Omdurman after the government closed roads and bridges leading to the centre of the capital. Similar protests also took place in Kassala in eastern Sudan and in the...

Africa News PoliticsOpposition Wins Historic Rerun of Malawi’s Presidential Vote

PilotnewsJune 27, 2020

Malawi — The opposition has won Malawi’s historic rerun of the presidential election, the first time a court-overturned vote in Africa has led to the defeat of an incumbent leader. Lazarus Chakwera’s victory late Saturday was a result of months of determined street protests in the southern African nation, and of a unanimous decision by the Constitutional Court that widespread irregularities in the May 2019 election — including the use of correction fluid on ballots...

Africa InfrastructureEgypt, Ethiopia, Sudan Agree to Restart Stalled Dam Talks

PilotnewsJune 27, 2020

Egypt said it had agreed with Ethiopia and Sudan to restart stalled talks in order to reach a deal on the rules of filling and operating Addis Ababa’s disputed dam on the Blue Nile. The announcement was made late on Friday following a mini-African Union summit, chaired by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, via videoconference to discuss the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) crisis. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi said in a statement the three countries...

Africa MoneyAfDB ranked 4th in Transparency Among Global Development Institutions

PilotnewsJune 24, 2020

Publish What You Fund has ranked the African Development Bank (AfDB) fourth out of 47 global development institutions on its Aid Transparency Index. The bank’s Communications and External Relations Department made this known in a statement on Wednesday. The Index is the only independent measure of aid transparency among the World’s major development agencies. It places AfDB in the highest category of transparency along with other world class institutions such as the World Bank, Asian Development...

Africa Business NewsIMF Forecasts Deeper Recession for Sub-Saharan Africa

PilotnewsJune 24, 2020

JOHANNESBURG – Sub-Saharan Africa’s gross domestic product is expected to shrink by 3.2% this year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, more than a previous estimated contraction of 1.6%. In its World Economic Outlook update, the IMF projected that GDP in South Africa, the continent’s most advanced economy, would shrink by 8% in 2020, a bigger contraction than the 5.8% forecast in April. South Africa’s strict...

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