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<p>The European Union has released an additional 15 million euros to the fight against desert locusts in East Africa ahead of a potential new wave of swarms in the region. This comes after the EU granted 11 million euros back in February of this year for the same. The Food and Agriculture Organisation is one of the bodies set to receive the funds for this and CNBC Africa spoke to Cyril Ferrand, Senior Technical Officer and Team Leader for Eastern Africa Resilience for more.</p>


EU injects additional $17mn to tackle desert locusts ravaging East Africa

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<p>Digital transformation is a regarded as a key to drive up financial inclusion in Africa and open banking is one of the trends that are reshaping financial services. Polys Hadjikyriakos, Chief Business Development Officer at NETinfo Plc explains why the continent should embrace it.</p>


Why Africa should embrace open banking

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<p>Kenya-based SME consultancy firm, Viffa Consult, has begun identifying sectors with growth potential for SMEs and entrepreneurs to explore despite COVID-19 challenges. They’ve today released the first report in what will be a series, all about the coconut commodity market in Kenya. CNBC Africa spoke to Managing Director, Victor Otieno for more.</p>


How to identify potential growth sectors for SMEs amid COVID-19

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<p>In Uganda like elsewhere, COVID-19 has made the situation for small businesses exceptionally challenging. Now in efforts to soften the blow, United Nations Development Programme has in partnership with Stanbic Bank Uganda launched a facility that aims to help small businesses recover from the impacts of the pandemic. Elsie Attafuah, UNDP Uganda Representative joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Uganda unveils new facility to help its SMEs recover from COVID-19

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<p>With the recent 5.5 per cent devaluation in naira at the SMIS window, what currency risks are Nigerian businesses exposed to? Winston Osuchukwu, Co-Founder of Trans-Sahara Incorporated joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


How the naira devaluation impacts Nigerian businesses

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<p>Cote d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s Vice President, Daniel Kablan Duncan has resigned just days after the death of Prime Minister, Amadou Gon Coulibaly. Ayalenesh Tafesse, Country Risk Analyst at Rand Merchant Bank joins CNBC Africa to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and recent events on cocoa-producing country&#8217;s growth trajectory.</p>


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<p>ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) &#8211; Long after the funding for his project was frozen, Bilal Endris has kept a lonely watch over cemeteries in Ethiopia’s capital by slipping cash to gravediggers to alert his team to any sudden spikes in burials.Older tombstones are seen at the Protestant and Catholic cemetery, open for burials amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wingate, North of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia June 29, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri</p>



<p>In a nation where fewer than 2% of deaths are registered, an increase in burials may be one of the first signs that a killer disease is on the loose.</p>



<p>The program was set up to monitor deaths related to HIV/AIDS a decade ago. Now doctor Bilal monitors for a spike in fatalities linked to COVID-19.</p>



<p>He has yet to see one, but projects like his are being set up in other African countries where many deaths go unrecorded, making it hard to assess the scale of a disease. In some cases, nations are dusting off programs set up during Ebola outbreaks.</p>



<p>Bilal himself has secured additional funding to restore the program to all 73 of Addis Ababa’s cemeteries from just 10 now.</p>



<p>Only eight countries in Africa &#8211; Algeria, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, and South Africa &#8211; record more than 75% of deaths, according to the United Nations.</p>



<p>In other regions, where official data is readily available, researchers have used the number of deaths from all causes that exceed the average for the time of year to help gauge the number linked to the coronavirus pandemic.</p>



<p>“In Ethiopia and everywhere across Africa &#8230; we go blind.” Bilal told Reuters. “I wanted to turn the health care system into one based on evidence.”</p>



<p>In the capital Addis Ababa, less than 20% of deaths occur in hospitals, Bilal said, so monitoring deaths requires talking to community leaders and burial grounds.</p>



<p>In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, media reports citing gravediggers alerted authorities to an undetected COVID-19 outbreak in the northern city of Kano in April, when deaths surged from a daily average of 11 to 43.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">COUNTING THE DEAD</h3>



<p>Bilal’s project began tracking burials at all graveyards in Addis Ababa a decade ago.</p>



<p>But in 2018, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) froze its funding, as the country had started using other methods to track HIV mortality, according to a CDC spokeswoman.</p>



<p>Bilal scaled back his surveillance to 10 cemeteries and began working for free, paying sources with a tiny grant from Addis Ababa University &#8211; until May.</p>



<p>City officials called him for a meeting, desperate to know whether COVID-19 was cutting swathes through their city, he said. The Ministry of Health did not respond to requests for comment.</p>



<p>Although official figures are still low &#8211; 7,650 confirmed cases and 127 deaths as of Sunday night &#8211; Ethiopia’s outbreak is accelerating. The university has now given Bilal enough support to restart the program in all 73 graveyards.</p>



<p>“It used to be funded by the CDC but now it is funded by Addis Ababa University as everyone, including the government, thinks the program is very important,” said Dr Wondwossen Amogne, an associate professor in infectious diseases at Addis Ababa University and director of research at the university’s Black Lion Hospital.</p>



<p>Health minister Lia Tadesse confirmed the study was being used by the government to monitor any spikes in death.</p>



<p>As a separate initiative, New York-based public health initiative Resolve to Save Lives is working with five other African nations to set up similar programs, including Rwanda and Senegal. The other three don’t want to be named.Slideshow&nbsp;(4 Images)</p>



<p>They will establish the usual death rate by interviewing community leaders, then watch for spikes.</p>



<p>Deciding whether any excess deaths are due to COVID-19 could be tricky, however. People with other diseases are avoiding hospitals for fear of catching the virus, health officials say.</p>



<p>Bilal’s team has begun asking families at burials whether the dead had any possible COVID-19 symptoms, such as a cough or a fever.</p>


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Counting the burials: African nations scramble to track COVID-19

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<p>Nigeria plans to enter the second phase of easing of restrictions on domestic flights from Wednesday. Evarest Nnaji, CEO, Oas Helicopters joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Oas Helicopters CEO on how COVID-19 has impacted Nigeria’s aviation industry

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<p>Africa’s venture capital industry has been growing from strength to strength as 613 deals worth $3.9 billion were reported between 2014 and 2019. That’s according to the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Chair of the Board of the Association and Co-founder of Alitheia Capital, Tokunboh Ishmael joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Alitheia Capital on the future of Africa’s private equity & venture capital industry

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<p>Rwanda’s coffee prices have taken a hit on the international global market as the effects on the supply chains take their toll on agriculture exports, but could they rebound back soon? Uwera Robinah, International and Regional Market Development Specialist at the National Agriculture Export Board joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


How Rwanda’s coffee industry plans to recover from COVID-19 induced disruptions

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<p>News from Zimbabwe over the weekend saw the ruling party Zanu-PF announcing that it supports the decision of expelling insurance giant, Old Mutual from the Zimbabwean Stock Exchange. Batanai Matsika, Head of Research at Morgan &#038; Co spoke to CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Zim ruling party seeks to eject Old Mutual from the ZSE

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<p>South Africa’s first clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine is entering its fourth week, with around 2000 volunteers participating. However, following the start of the trial, anti-vaccine protestors took to the streets to convey their concerns and sentiments with vaccine testing. Thabani Maphosa, Managing Director for Country Programmes at Gavi spoke to CNBC Africa for more.</p>


COVID-19: Understanding anti-vaccine sentiment in South Africa

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<p>CNBC Africa spoke with William Dachs, CEO of the Gautrain about a public transport outlook amid the COVID-19 crisis and how the Gautrain is faring during these times.</p>


William Dachs on how COVID-19 is impacting Gautrain operations

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<p>Zambia’s Ministry of Mines and Mineral Development reported that copper output rose 3.9 per cent to 342 734 tonnes in the first five months of 2020 despite the closure of mines during the COVID-19 lock-downs. Ridle Markus, Africa Strategist, Absa Corporate and Investment Banking joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Zambia sees increase in copper output despite COVID-19 mine closures

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<p>Workers unions demand reopening, public outcry as a health official doesn’t don a mask and Boda Boda drivers sue the Ugandan government; these are the headlines making news in Uganda. Analyst and Chief Strategist at Impact Communication Strategies, Ken Agutamba joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


COVID-19: Ugandan unions demand reopening of economy

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<p>Zindzi Mandela &#8211; the youngest daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela &#8211; has died aged 59. She had been South Africa&#8217;s ambassador to Denmark since 2015. Reports say she died this morning in a Johannsburg hospital. South Africa&#8217;s foreign minister Naledi Pandor said Zindzi would not only be remembered as the daughter of struggle icons but as a struggle heroine in her own right. Sello Hatang, CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Zindzi Mandela dies at 59

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<p>Musicians make most of their income revenue from their live performances but now due to COVID-19 pandemic, they are seeking new models to generate income again with online streaming being prominent in the current climate. But how adequate is this when it comes to paying their bills? T Effect CEO, Thabiso Khati joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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