Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sat. April 18, 2020 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the 40th anniversary celebrations of the independence of the Republic of Zimbabwe; Namibia is stepping up its preventive measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 in this country; South Africa has been on lockdown for several weeks in its struggle to contain the outbreak in the continent's most industrialized state; and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has offered a proposal for the collection of data on the impact of COVID-19 among African Union member-states. In the second and third hours we look at the continuing international crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. We listen to the briefing of World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Geneva, Switzerland. The Health Ministry of the Republic of Kenya provides an update of the situation in this leading East African state. Finally we rebroadcast the 40th anniversary independence speech given by Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa from Harare.