Download logo € 10.2 billion for COVID-19 public health and business financing; € 5.2 billion for new private sector financing schemes; € 2 billon for energy and energy efficiency investment around the world; Millions of commuters to benefit from € 1.9 billion urban transport funding in Europe, Asia and Africa The European Investment Bank (EIB) […]
Coronavirus – South Africa: Employment and Labour on critical role played by entities during Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
Download logo The Department of Employment and Labour has, through its entity the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), placed a total of R31 billion in cash to workers around the country to help them cope with the inclement effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. Close to 7 million payments (6 808 971) have benefitted millions of workers thus […]
Coronavirus – Africa: COVID-19 WHO Africa Update (15 July 2020)
Over 625,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent – with more than 316,000 recoveries & 13,000 deaths. View country figures & more with the WHO African Region COVID-19 Dashboard: https://arcg.is/XvuSX. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of WHO Regional Office for Africa. Media filesDownload logo Source: Apo-Opa
Coronavirus – Rwanda: COVID-19 update (14 July 2020)
Total cases: 1,416 (+38) Tests: 192,379 (+5,705) Recovered: 737 (+27) Deaths: 4 (+0) Actives cases: 675 Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health, Republic of Rwanda. Media filesDownload logo Source: Apo-Opa
Coronavirus – Africa will need a lot of energy to power its COVID-19 recovery, says Vera Songwe
Download logo Africa will need a lot of energy to build back better in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Vera Songwe, said Wednesday. Speaking during a Res4Africa webinar on scaling up renewable energy investments in Africa, Ms. Songwe said actions to ensure there is enough […]
Niger: The African Development Bank enhances food security for nine million people (report)
Download logo The Water Mobilisation Project to Enhance Food Security in Maradi, Tahoua and Zinder Regions (PMERSA-MTZ) (https://bit.ly/32iTzQs), implemented between 2011 and 2018 in Niger, has sustainably increased agricultural production and productivity and increased food security for nearly nine million residents of this Sahelian country, according to a report by the African Development Bank. Financed […]
Coronavirus – Somalia: Update on COVID-19 in Somalia (15th July 2020)
Download logo New cases confirmed: 7 Somaliland: 4 Benadir: 3 Male: 6 Female: 1 Recovery: 45 Death: 0 Total confirmed cases: 3,083 Total recoveries: 1,425 Total deaths: 93 Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health & Human Services, Federal Republic of Somalia. Source: Apo-Opa
Coronavirus – Africa: New Humanitarian and Health Assistance bolsters U.S. Leadership in Response to COVID-19
Download logo By Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State The American people’s generosity remains unmatched in the global fight against COVID-19. The Department of State and USAID are providing an additional $208 million in new humanitarian and health assistance to bolster our ongoing response efforts, helping the world’s most vulnerable overcome the devastation inflicted by […]
Coronavirus – Kenya: COVID-19 Update (15 July 2020)
Total confirmed: 11252 Total recovered: 3068 Deaths: 209 Sadly we have lost seven (7) patients to the disease bringing our fatality to 209. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health, Kenya. Media filesDownload logo Source: Apo-Opa
Coronavirus – Ghana: Prvt Hammond receives letter from HRH The Prince of Wales
Download logo HRH The Prince of Wales has honoured 95-year-old World War Two veteran Private Joseph Hammond for his contribution to Ghana’s coronavirus recovery. Inspired by the UK’s Captain Sir Thomas Moore, Private Hammond walked two miles every day for a week in early May to raise money for Ghanaian veterans and frontline health-workers impacted […]