Africa: Pandemic Threatens to Boost Numbers of Child Soldiers: [Thomson Reuters Foundation] As world marks Red Hand Day, United Nations warns coronavirus could fuel child recruitment by armed groups – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: Rising Mortality As Africa Marks One Year of Covid-19: [WHO] Brazzaville — Deaths from COVID-19 in Africa have surged by 40% in the last month, pushing Africa’s death toll towards 100 000 since the first reported case on the continent on 14 February 2020. This comes as Africa battles new, more contagious variants and gears up for its largest-ever vaccination drive. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: How the Resource Curse Has Played Out in Nigeria and Angola: [Africa In Fact] In weakly institutionalised contexts, natural resource wealth tends to be a curse instead of a blessing. Where citizens are relatively powerless to hold ruling elites to account, resource wealth undermines development prospects. To the contrary, where citizens are able to exert constraints on the use of executive power, resource wealth can generate development outcomes that benefit ordinary citizens. – AllAfrica News: Africa
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