All African Countries Now Have Coronavirus Lab Testing Capacity – WHO Chief

AfricaCoronavirusNewsAll African Countries Now Have Coronavirus Lab Testing Capacity – WHO Chief

PilotnewsJune 24, 2020

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – All African countries have now developed laboratory capacity to test for the coronavirus, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also warned that the pandemic was accelerating. “The most recent one million cases of COVID-19 were reported in just one week,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a virtual conference on COVID-19 vaccine development and access across the continent. The WHO chief added that over 220...

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Malawi Election Commission Predicts Fair Outcome in Rerun Presidential Vote

AfricaNewsMalawi Election Commission Predicts Fair Outcome in Rerun Presidential Vote

PilotnewsJune 23, 2020

BLANTYRE – The Malawi Electoral Commission says it is confident that Tuesday’s presidential election rerun will be fair and free of the irregularities that marred last year’s vote and led to annulling the re-election of Peter Mutharika. Mutharika seeks a second five-year term. He faces two other candidates —main opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera and little-known Peter Kuwani — in a race that political analysts say is too close to call. Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika addresses guests during his inauguration ceremony in Blantyre, Malawi, May 31, 2019. Polling preparations have been smooth, Chifundo Kachale, the commission chairperson, told...

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What Happens Next As South Sudan Postpones Signing of Long-Awaited Peace Deal

AfricaNewsWhat Happens Next As South Sudan Postpones Signing of Long-Awaited Peace Deal

PilotnewsJune 22, 2020

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar have indefinitely postponed a long-awaited peace treaty intended to curb fighting between government and rebel factions. South Sudan plunged into a brutal civil war following independence in 2011, which pitted Kiir’s ethnic Dinka forces against Machar’s ethnic Nuer and displaced nearly a third of the country’s population. A peace treaty signed in August 2015 collapsed after violence re-erupted. Since the resumption of talks in September 2018, Kiir...

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Buhari Congratulates New Burundian President, Ndayishimiye

AfricaNewsBuhari Congratulates New Burundian President, Ndayishimiye

PilotnewsJune 18, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Evariste Ndayishimiye on taking office as President of Burundi after a swearing-in ceremony on Thursday in the political capital, Gitega. The Nigerian leader’s congratulatory message was conveyed in a statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Thursday. The President also felicitated with the Government and people of Burundi on the historic peaceful transition to a democratically elected government, after the...

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The Authoritarian Politics of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe

AfricaCoronavirusOpinionThe Authoritarian Politics of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe

PilotnewsJune 18, 2020

In the United States and around the world, societies are struggling to balance the sometimes draconian social controls needed to combat a highly contagious infectious disease with the need for limits on government power and the protection of civil liberties. Public health concerns can be used to justify crackdowns on opposition politicians, the manipulation of vital humanitarian assistance, and the emergency overriding of mechanisms meant to prohibit private gain at the public’s expense. In societies where the scales had...

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After the Death of Another Journalist, Cameroon Needs Outside Political Mediation

AfricaOpinionPoliticsAfter the Death of Another Journalist, Cameroon Needs Outside Political Mediation

PilotnewsJune 18, 2020

Maurice Kamto is the leader of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (MRC) and was the main challenger in Cameroon’s 2018 presidential election. He was imprisoned by the government from January to October in 2019. Nearly one year ago, on August 2, 2019, journalist Samuel Ajiekah Abuwe—better known as Wazizi—was arrested and detained by government forces in Buea, located in the South-West region of Cameroon. Since 2017, Buea has been home to unrelenting violence between the government and separatist...

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Africa’s COVID-19 Cases Over 248,000 – WHO

AfricaCoronavirusNewsAfrica’s COVID-19 Cases Over 248,000 – WHO

PilotnewsJune 16, 2020

The World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says the number of coronavirus cases in Africa is now over 248,000. The UN health agency gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Tuesday. It stated that “there are over 248,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent – with more than 113,000 recoveries and 6,600 deaths’’. WHO also noted that South Africa, Nigeria and Algeria had the highest reported...

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43 African countries Under Border Closure as COVID-19 Cases Top 225,000 Continent-wide

AfricaCoronavirusNews43 African countries Under Border Closure as COVID-19 Cases Top 225,000 Continent-wide

PilotnewsJune 13, 2020

As COVID-19 caseload surpassed 225,105 on Saturday across the African continent, 43 African countries are now under full border closure due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus. The death toll from the pandemic has reached 6,040, while some 102,846 people have recovered, according to the latest data from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). The Africa CDC said that the northern African region is the most affected area across the continent both in terms of...

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Egypt to Restart Tourist Flights in July to Boost Virus-Hit Economy

AfricaMarketsTravelEgypt to Restart Tourist Flights in July to Boost Virus-Hit Economy

PilotnewsJune 11, 2020

Egypt will allow foreign tourists and flights to return to some of its resorts beginning from July, as the country struggles to contain the economic fallout from an outbreak of the new coronavirus. The country’s vital tourism and aviation sectors have borne the economic impact of the virus. Tourist and air traffic will resume to the coastal cities “least affected by the virus, beginning July 1,” Information Minister Osama Heikal said on Thursday in televised...

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Floyd killing Finds Echoes of Abuse in South Africa, Kenya

AfricaLaw & JusticeNewsFloyd killing Finds Echoes of Abuse in South Africa, Kenya

PilotnewsJune 11, 2020

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Collins Khosa was killed by law enforcement officers in a poor township in Johannesburg over a cup of beer left in his yard. The 40-year-old black man was choked, slammed against a wall, beaten, kicked and hit with the butt of a rifle by the soldiers as police watched, his family says. Two months later, South Africans staged a march against police brutality. But it was mostly about the killing...

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