This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareNAIROBI — The most critical piece of lifesaving equipment of the coronavirus pandemic is in desperately short supply in Africa: According to the World Health Organization, there are fewer than 2,000 ventilators across 41 countries that reported to it.Somalia’s Health Ministry still doesn’t have a single one. The Central African Republic has three. South Sudan, four. Liberia, five. Nigeria, with a population two-thirds that of the United States, has fewer than 100.Officials say those numbers will change as ventilator...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareNAIROBI — The most critical piece of lifesaving equipment of the coronavirus pandemic is in desperately short supply in Africa: According to the World Health Organization, there are fewer than 2,000 ventilators across 41 countries that reported to it.Somalia’s Health Ministry still doesn’t have a single one. The Central African Republic has three. South Sudan, four. Liberia, five. Nigeria, with a population two-thirds that of the United States, has fewer than 100.Officials say those numbers will change as ventilator...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareGambia, the smallest country in continental Africa, is calling for a “transparent, credible and objective” investigation into the death of one of its citizens who was fatally shot by police last week in Georgia.Momodou Lamin Sisay, 39, died in a county northeast of Atlanta in the early hours of May 29 — four days after the set off global outrage over the treatment of black people in the United States.Officers tried to pull over Sisay, the son of a retired Gambian diplomat, for a vehicle tag violation, according to the...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareGambia, the smallest country in continental Africa, is calling for a “transparent, credible and objective” investigation into the death of one of its citizens who was fatally shot by police last week in Georgia.Momodou Lamin Sisay, 39, died in a county northeast of Atlanta in the early hours of May 29 — four days after the set off global outrage over the treatment of black people in the United States.Officers tried to pull over Sisay, the son of a retired Gambian diplomat, for a vehicle tag violation, according to the...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareDAKAR, Senegal — Public health officials in Guinea declared a new epidemic of Ebola on Sunday after recording seven cases and three deaths — the first resurgence since the hemorrhagic fever devastated the West African nation and two neighbors from 2014 to 2016. in the last outbreak, the deadliest on record, which started in a rural Guinea village before tearing through Liberia and Sierra Leone.Health investigators are rushing to trace and isolate suspected contacts, said Sakoba Keita, head of the National Health Security...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareDAKAR, Senegal — Public health officials in Guinea declared a new epidemic of Ebola on Sunday after recording seven cases and three deaths — the first resurgence since the hemorrhagic fever devastated the West African nation and two neighbors from 2014 to 2016. in the last outbreak, the deadliest on record, which started in a rural Guinea village before tearing through Liberia and Sierra Leone.Health investigators are rushing to trace and isolate suspected contacts, said Sakoba Keita, head of the National Health Security...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe police officers accused him of speeding, but Dare Olaitan felt that wasn’t true. The 29-year-old filmmaker in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, says he requested proof.“Then they slapped me, yanked away my phone and keys and said, ‘We are going to an ATM,’ ” Olaitan said.The men, who’d pulled him over in an unmarked van, identified themselves as part of the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a Nigerian police unit that has been tasked over the past three decades with fighting violent crime, including banditry...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe police officers accused him of speeding, but Dare Olaitan felt that wasn’t true. The 29-year-old filmmaker in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, says he requested proof.“Then they slapped me, yanked away my phone and keys and said, ‘We are going to an ATM,’ ” Olaitan said.The men, who’d pulled him over in an unmarked van, identified themselves as part of the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a Nigerian police unit that has been tasked over the past three decades with fighting violent crime, including banditry...WW…