COVID -19

AFRICA BEING PUSHED TO THE LIMITS: How the bid to meet IMF requirements creates a fertile ground for inequality

African countries started their Covid-19 recovery period in a very parlous economic state. Poor people’s income fell sharply during the pandemic and according to UNECA , the pandemic forced 55 million into poverty in 2020. At the same time, Africa’s debt burden has accelerated to crippling levels...

Demands for austerity and spiralling debt are ‘sabotaging’ Africa’s COVID-19 recovery

43 African governments are facing expenditure cuts totalling $183 billion (equivalent to 5.4 percent of GDP) over the next five years, reveals new analysis from Oxfam and Development Finance International (DFI) today. If these cuts are implemented, their chances of achieving the UN’s Sustainable...

Africa's Extreme Inequality Crisis: Building Back Fairer after COVID-19

Africa is facing a crisis of extreme inequality which is undermining growth, preventing poverty eradication and contributing to insecurity. The six richest African billionaires are now wealthier than the poorest 50% of Africans combined. This briefing paper shows that COVID-19 has deepened this...

Ten richest men double their fortunes in pandemic while incomes of 99 percent of humanity fall

New billionaire minted every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of one person every four seconds The world’s ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion —at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a day— during the first two years of a...

Les organisations de la société civile réclament l'accès aux vaccins et l'équité pour tous

En tant qu'organisations de la société civile à travers l'Afrique, nous joignons nos voix pour demander un vaccin populaire, qui assure une protection en tant que bien public mondial, disponible gratuitement et équitablement pour tous, en donnant la priorité à ceux qui en ont le plus besoin.

Civil Society Organisations Calling for Vaccine Access and Equity For All

Over 60 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have come together to demand for COVID-19 vaccine access and equity for all. The CSOs have made specific demands such as that governments make publicly available COVID-19 vaccines procurement and distribution plans, including number of doses procured,...

Protect rural women’s land rights and they will pull Africa’s economy out of the COVID-19 pandemic

Ask any small holder farmer in Africa about their experience with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and you are more likely to sample a story of personal economic decline than a near-death health experience with COVID-19. Movement restrictions imposed by governments to slow down the coronavirus...

Oxfam félicite les nouveaux commissaires de l'UA et son Excellence Félix Tshisekedi, président de la République démocratique du Congo, en sa qualité de président de l'Union africaine

Le programme panafricain d'Oxfam International félicite et salue l'élection de Son Excellence Félix Tshisekedi, Président de la République démocratique du Congo, à la présidence de l'Union africaine et les nouveaux commissaires de l'Union présidés par Son Excellence Moussa Faki. Pour Mr Peter...

Oxfam congratulates the newly elected AU Commissioners and His Excellency Felix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as Chairperson of the Africa Union

Oxfam International Pan Africa Program congratulates and welcomes the election of His Excellency Felix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as the Chairperson of the African Union and the new Commissioners of the Union led by His Excellency Moussa Faki. '' The AU elections...

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SMALL-SCALE FARMING, FOOD SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY IN AFRICA

A number of actions have indeed been put in place by governments as an immediate response to COVID-19 and the effects it is having on the population, which is to be applauded. Across the continent, agricultural inputs and livestock feed are being distributed to support food and pastoral production...

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