Tag: sub-Saharan Africa

First virus death in Sub-Saharan Africa as WHO warns ‘prepare for worst’

by Armel Baily with David Esnault in Abidjan Agence France-Presse OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) —Sub-Saharan Africa has recorded its first COVID-19 death, a high-ranking politician in Burkina Faso, as the head of the World Health Organization urged the continent to “prepare for the worst”. “Africa should wake up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva on Wednesday, pointing out that “in other countries, we have seen how the virus actually accelerates after a certain […]

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Severely burnt migrants rescued off Italian coast, receive treatment

MIGRANTS with severe burns received treatment at a medical center on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Friday (April 17), hours after they were rescued at sea by the Italian coastguard. A dinghy carrying between 60-70 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa was intercepted by the coastguard who found many of the people on board suffering from severe burns, including young children. One 25-year-old woman had died of her injuries onboard. “Certainly there are severe burns. At least […]

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