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Africa review in 2020

Monday, 04 January 2021 4:16 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 04 January 2021 4:39 AM ]

The year 2020 was a year like no other for people over the world, including Africa. It was a tumultuous year due to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.

Nigeria was the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to confirm a case of the novel coronavirus. In this weeks edition of Africa Today, we'll be highlighting on some of the major events that shook Africa in 2020.

Apart from the COVID-19 pandemic, other events that made headlines in Africa include protests against police brutality in Nigeria, the military coup in Mali, the US forcing some African countries to establish ties with the Israeli regime and the crisis in Ethiopia.

We shall start of our program with the COVID-19 pandemic. As the year ended, there were over 2.5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent- with more than 2.1 million recoveries and 60,000 deaths cumulatively.

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