The Covid-19 pandemic: A test of Africa’s solidarity and resilience

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Covid-19: The greatest lesson for the African Union is that it should build a crisis fund into which African countries can tap should their finances fail them. African countries need to show solidarity, writes Patrick Kadima

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During that, certain African leaders made a call to the world, especially to developed countries, to mobilise resources to help the continent fight off the deadly virus.

Rome pleaded with its neighbours for help as the pandemic stretched its health system to breaking point. Neighbours replied by closing off borders and lending no help to distressed Italians. According to the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Mali has only 20 ventilators in total, which translates to one ventilator per 1 million people in a country with an estimated 19 million inhabitants.

Therefore the continent should look at solidarity as one of the answers to fighting against Covid-19.

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He is right.

There has been malaria, Ebola and cholera and the AU never assisted by any means necessary,now we're facing our toughest test yet, COVID-19, still the same quietness as ever. As long as the continent is failing to condemn coups,is led by old and tired individuals,expect nothing.

A crisis fund implies that there is actual money in the kitty. Someone must put it there. From a kitty that they have....

Awu those people are not there for the rest of us. It's a paid holiday nje for them and of cause those allowance

some will have nothing to contribute whilst their leaders have mansions in France & monies in bank accounts abroad..each country should have it's own trust funud..when will these African leaders be responsible for their own countries & ppl..

They will steal it eventually Africans will never change Political leaders are always putting their interests first before those of their nation's

🤣 🤣 🤣 Who will admister? These 'leaders' know what they would do to the funds so they won't trust anyone else enough to contribute to the fund

They all corrupt.

I pray this into existence 🙏🏽😭

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