AHA at a joint field visit distributed hygiene, personal protection and medical equipment donated by UNHCR to the Governor of the Eastern Region on 30 April 2020. The donation was aimed at reinforcing the district hospital efforts in the fight against COVID- 19 covering five refugee settlement sites: Ngarissingo / Yokadouma, Lolo, mbile, timangolo and …
Africa Humanitarian Action (AHA) has donated food and sanitary items containing beans, kaunga, rice, sugar and tembo soap to complement Rwanda’s government effort in support of vulnerable groups during COVID-19 pandemic. In late March the Government of Rwanda became the first sub-Saharan country to impose a lockdown as a response to stop the spread of …
STATEMENT BY AFRICA HUMANITARIAN ACTION (AHA) With over 868,000 cases confirmed as of 01 April 2020, the novel corona virus global pandemic continues to overwhelm the world. Africa’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 surfaced in Egypt on 15 February, followed by the first known sub-Saharan case in Nigeria on 28 February. According to the Africa …
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Africa Humanitarian Action (AHA) has been keenly following the developments in the spread of the global pandemic, the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Although over the past few weeks, there has been a steady decline of new cases in the People’s Republic of China and South Korea, more countries have seen an increase. In Africa, according to …
