Former President Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF) says the current COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the continent is exposing the long history of failure of governance in African continent.
pandemic ravaging the continent is exposing the long history of failure of governance in African continent.
The foundation said in a communiqué on Monday that the rationale for the series of dialogue was to create awareness on some of the effects the African continent faced in the wake of the global pandemic.The dialogue attracted participants from many nations, including Kenya, Gabon, Uganda, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Nigeria and was used to examine the impacts and risks associated with the pandemic on peace and security in Africa.
It urged African States and the continent as a whole to go beyond rhetoric and start collaborating and leveraging on their comparative advantage. “The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the long history of failure of governance in the continent and if this is not addressed it may lead to the collapse of many African States.“The current approach of city-wide lockdowns and movement restriction denies citizens access to their safe spaces and other forms of human rights, increase in reported cases of Gender-Based Violence in the continent.
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