Carley Petesch

RT @AP_Africa: An Ethiopian court has ordered journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro to be released on bail after being imprisoned for four months wit…

AP calls for release of Ethiopian journalist in detention (from @AP) #FreeAmirAmanKiyaro https://t.co/D4pQR3urdZ

Representation matters: A profile of Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Africa's 1st female leader

AP Africa @AP_Africa

WHO Africa's first woman leader sees her African identity as a strength in developing health policies to help the continent through the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/fmGUVA7ZQN

RT @sammednick: #BurkinaFaso’s President Kabore is being held by mutinous soldiers. There’s a heavy military build up outside the state bro…

RT @YesicaFisch: Women step up, fill the gaps in Burkina Faso's virus fight by ⁦@AP⁩. Text ⁦⁦@sammednick⁩ photos ⁦@sgarcia_photo⁩ and video…

Africa's 'Great Green Wall' shifts focus to hold off desert (from @AP) https://t.co/WZHuFRfXWk

RT @AP_Africa: Internal documents and witness accounts reveal the first starvation deaths since Ethiopia’s government in June imposed what…

West African health officials race to vaccinate amid spikes (from @AP) https://t.co/K6SvVRSG7H

RT @AP: Thrown to the ground: Through pandemic threats, qualifying competitions and home nation challenges, Guinean wrestler Fatoumata Yari…

A worrying sign as the festival arrives in a nation that was thought to have cases under control. Senegal to celebrate Tabaski amid dramatic COVID-19 surge (from @AP) https://t.co/OCWimVV0gi

Deaths climb to 72 in South Africa riots after Zuma jailed (from @AP) https://t.co/GWQ8fVQ4Hk

RT @AP_Africa: As France prepares to scale back its military presence in Africa's Sahel region, its soldiers are again confronting the thre…

RT @AP: The women of Senegal who process fish to help support their families use generations-old methods of drying, smoking, salting or fer…

RT @AP_Africa: Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed Tuesday on…

RT @AP_Africa: "God be praised!": The governor of Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state says that 279 schoolgirls abducted last week from a…

The gap in medical oxygen availability “is one of the defining health equity issues, I think, of our age,” said Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. My report with @lhinnant and colleagues on critical lack of oxygen in Africa, Latin America

The Associated Press @AP

A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck in Africa and Latin America. Warnings went unheeded there at the start of the pandemic and doctors say shortages of oxygen have led to unnecessary deaths. https://t.co/dGqvMSaVqV

Ghana 1st nation to receive coronavirus vaccines from COVAX (from @AP) https://t.co/8e2QjHGN9c