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Africa Subsaharan
UN chief warns Covid-19 could cause poverty, hunger for millions in Africa
2020-05-21
[France24] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that millions of people could be pushed into extreme poverty in Africa due to the coronavirus pandemic and called for "global solidarity" with the continent.

"The pandemic threatens African progress. It will aggravate long-standing inequalities and heighten hunger, malnutrition and vulnerability to disease," Guterres said in a statement accompanying a UN study with recommendations for the African continent.

While he congratulated Africa for responding swiftly to the pandemic, which has claimed more than 2,500 lives across the continent, Guterres noted that "as of now, reported cases are lower than feared."

"African countries should also have quick, equal and affordable access to any eventual vaccine and treatment, that must be considered global public goods," he said in his statement.
"and free high speed internet...and a pony"
Since the pandemic is still in its "early days" in Africa, Guterres stressed that "disruption could escalate quickly."

"Global solidarity with Africa is an imperative — now and for recovering better," he said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11   CV has flipped my model upside down.

I’d wait six months before drawing any conclusions, mossomo. It took the Black Plague three years to reach the hinterlands after it landed in Venice.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-05-21 14:56  

#10  How CV mostly skipped Black Africa is such an interest to me. Looking at the numbers, it's Europeanized S.Africa and Morocco, and Arabized Nigeria and Sudan that have the most CV deaths.

What's the outlier? The spike in deaths in anglo-ized and arabized countries, or the lull in deaths in Black Africa. I always considered black africa as a petri dish in seeing how contagions spread and how fatal they are. And I always thought any disease would ravage Africa at least three times the rate of Westernized countries. CV has flipped my model upside down.

As for the UN chief's comments, I thought we had long standing understanding that Africa was nothing but poverty and hunger. CV cant make the continent any more of a crap hole than it already is.
Posted by: mossomo   2020-05-21 13:16  

#9  "Follow the science"! lol
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-21 10:16  

#8  /\ The Chinese face the same impediments to progress as others who have gone before them, the tribal citizenry. Perhaps science will provide the Chinese a 'way ahead.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-21 10:15  

#7  About the only country "doing anything" in Africa is China.
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-21 10:10  

#6  Notice if you will, how seldom you hear the continent of Africa referenced as an economic and social quagmire ?

Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-21 10:03  

#5  let me guess, the solution is to give more money to the UN
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-05-21 10:00  

#4  Guess they should do something about it.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-05-21 07:52  

#3  And the climate change lunatics are loving every minute of it.
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-21 07:01  

#2  "Poverty and hunger for millions in Africa" will continue to increase with or without CV-19.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-21 02:45  

#1  They're wealthy & well nourished now?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-21 02:44  

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