Mo Ibrahim Prize Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/mo-ibrahim-prize/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mo Ibrahim Prize Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/mo-ibrahim-prize/ 32 32 Lower risk of importation but Africa has highest vulnerability to COVID 19 https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/lower-risk-of-importation-but-africa-has-highest-vulnerability-to-covid-19/ Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/lower-risk-of-importation-but-africa-has-highest-vulnerability-to-covid-19/ The Mo Ibrahim foundation says that faced with the COVID 19 pandemic Africa has a lower risk of importation of the virus than other regions. But it echoes the World Health Organisation in warning it has the highest vulnerability to coronavirus. ends intro The Mo Ibrahim Foundation whose annual price for a retired  African leader […]

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]]> The Mo Ibrahim foundation says that faced with the COVID 19 pandemic Africa has a lower risk of importation of the virus than other regions.

But it echoes the World Health Organisation in warning it has the highest vulnerability to coronavirus.

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The Mo Ibrahim Foundation whose annual price for a retired  African leader and survey of good governance has become the barometer for democracy on the continent calls COVID 19 a threat to all humanity.

It says Africa has been comparatively lightly affected so far because of climatic conditions unfavorable to the virus and the  lower average age of its population.

But it will need a positive and bold multilalteral response to coronavirus to compensate  for its poor health services.

Sub Saharan Africa has 2,1 physicians per 10 000 people. That’s twelve times lower than the European number. 

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