UPDATE 2-African Ambassadors Complain to China Over ‘Discrimination’ in Guangzhou

AfricaForeign PolicyUPDATE 2-African Ambassadors Complain to China Over ‘Discrimination’ in Guangzhou

PilotnewsApril 13, 2020

African ambassadors in China have written to the country’s foreign minister over what they call discrimination against Africans as the country seeks to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus. Several African countries have separately also demanded that China address their concerns that Africans, in particular in the southern city of Guangzhou, are being mistreated and harassed. Having brought under control the original outbreak centred on the city of Wuhan, China is now concerned about imported...

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UPDATE 1-China in the Driver’s Seat Amid Calls for Africa Debt Relief

AfricaEconomyWorld NewsUPDATE 1-China in the Driver’s Seat Amid Calls for Africa Debt Relief

PilotnewsApril 13, 2020

* G20 likely to endorse debt moratorium this week-sources * African nations pushing for broad debt relief * China now Africa’s largest bilateral creditor * Beijing finds itself in an unfamiliar role (Adds comment from Chinese foreign ministry) April 13 (Reuters) – Support is growing for debt relief to help the world’s poorest, indebted nations – most of them in Africa – confront the economic havoc wreaked by COVID-19. But there is one big question...

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UPDATE 2-Child Labour Still Prevalent in West Africa Cocoa Sector Despite Industry Efforts -Report

AfricaLabourSpecial ReportUPDATE 2-Child Labour Still Prevalent in West Africa Cocoa Sector Despite Industry Efforts -Report

PilotnewsApril 11, 2020

The use of child labour on cocoa farms in top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana has risen over the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it, according to a draft of a U.S. government-sponsored report seen by Reuters. More than 2 million children worked in the sector last season in the West African countries that produce about two-thirds of the world’s cocoa, according to the draft of a report funded by the U.S. Department...

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Chad Army Says 52 Troops, 1,000 Jihadists Killed in Offensive

AfricaNewsPoliticsChad Army Says 52 Troops, 1,000 Jihadists Killed in Offensive

PilotnewsApril 10, 2020

N’Djamena (AFP) – The Chadian army said Thursday it had wound up an offensive against Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad border region in which 52 troops and 1,000 jihadists were killed. Army spokesman Colonel Azem Bermendoa Agouna told AFP that the operation, launched after nearly 100 soldiers were killed last month, ended Wednesday after the Nigerian jihadists were forced out of the country. “A thousand terrorists have been killed, 50 motorised canoes have...

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Facebook expands COVID-19 Information Centre to Nigeria, 16 Other African Countries

AfricaCoronavirusNewsFacebook expands COVID-19 Information Centre to Nigeria, 16 Other African Countries

PilotnewsApril 9, 2020

Facebook says it will be expanding its Coronavirus Information Centre to 17 more countries in sub-Saharan African, including Nigeria Kojo Boakye, Facebook’s Head of Public Policy, Africa, who made the disclosure on Thursday, noted that the information centres form part of Facebook’s effort to help the global fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. According to him, Facebook will be providing people with the latest news and information from trusted health authorities. “The COVID-19 Information Centre features...

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AfDB Unveils $10bn Response Facility to Curb COVID-19 in Africa

AfricaCoronavirusEconomyAfDB Unveils $10bn Response Facility to Curb COVID-19 in Africa

PilotnewsApril 9, 2020

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has announced 10 billion dollars COVID-19 Response Facility to assist regional member countries to fight the pandemic. The bank’s Communication and External Relations Department made this known in a statement on Wednesday. The bank noted that the facility was the latest measure taken by it to respond to the pandemic and would be the institution’s primary channel for its efforts to address the crisis. The AfDB said the fund would...

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S. African President Punishes Minister for Violating Lockdown Regulations

AfricaCoronavirusPoliticsS. African President Punishes Minister for Violating Lockdown Regulations

PilotnewsApril 8, 2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, on a two-month special leave after she violated lockdown regulations, the Presidency said on Wednesday. Of Ndabeni-Abrahams’ two months special leave, one month will be unpaid, the Presidency said in a statement. “As to allegations that the minister violated the lockdown regulations, the law should take its course,” presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko said. This followed the revelation on social media that the...

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How Jihadi Groups in Africa Will Exploit COVID-19

AfricaCoronavirusNational SecurityHow Jihadi Groups in Africa Will Exploit COVID-19

PilotnewsApril 8, 2020

As the COVID-19 outbreak begins to spread in earnest in Africa, we can expect so-called jihadi groups on the continent to try to take advantage of the crisis to unleash violence and recruit members. We are already seeing indications that this has started happening. Governments, development workers, and aid agencies need to be made aware of this threat and take steps to deny these brutal militias more room to operate. Over the past two weeks,...

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French Doctor Apologizes for Comments on Testing a COVID-19 Vaccine in Africa, Prompting Outrage on Social Media

AfricaCoronavirusNewsWorld NewsFrench Doctor Apologizes for Comments on Testing a COVID-19 Vaccine in Africa, Prompting Outrage on Social Media

PilotnewsApril 7, 2020

‘Shouldn’t we be doing this study in Africa where there are no masks, no treatment, no intensive care, a little bit like we did in certain AIDS studies or with prostitutes?’ Dr. Jean-Paul Mira said. A French doctor apologized after suggesting that Africa should become a testing ground for a COVID-19 vaccine, remarks that sparked public outcry on social media. Jean-Paul Mira, head of the intensive care unit at the Cochin Hospital in Paris, made...

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Lockdowns: Saving lives, but ruining livelihoods in Africa

AfricaCoronavirusNewsLockdowns: Saving lives, but ruining livelihoods in Africa

PilotnewsApril 7, 2020

LAGOS/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – In a dark ground-floor room in Lagos, dressmaker Kemi Adepoju gazes at a pile of dresses she has made but which cannot be collected due to the lockdown in force to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. “This lockdown came upon us suddenly. I used all my money to buy fabric. If I had known, I would have … used it to buy food instead,” said the mother-of-two, who runs her...

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