Covid, conflicts compete for attention virtual at AU summit



Nation | by AFP


Addis Ababa

African leaders are expected to focus on the continent’s Covid-19 response at a virtual summit this weekend, as well as pressing security crises that have gone overlooked during the pandemic.

The two-day African Union summit comes almost exactly one year after Egypt recorded the first case of Covid-19 in Africa, prompting widespread fears that member states’ weak health systems would quickly be overwhelmed.

But despite early doomsday predictions, the continent has so far been hit less hard than other regions…

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