This week’s Monitor features Ambassador Dr Monica Juma, the Cabinet Secretary for Defence in Kenya, who contextualises the relevance of the military in emergencies and the role that it can play in helping to contain the spread and effects of the disease.
This edition also focuses on how the spread of COVID-19 seems to be different in Africa to date, compared to other regions. In this regard, a number of ACCORD colleagues have put their heads together to analyse how and why the disease has taken a different path in Africa – and why its spread is now starting to accelerate.
Lastly, Rumbidzaishe Matambo continues our series of country analysis and writes on how the combination of internal conflict and COVID-19 is causing a double tragedy for refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Cameroon.
