France’s Pres. Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday nearly $1.3 billion of development aid to Africa for the fight against the coronavirus.
While most of the money will be reallocated from funds already set aside for international aid, the announcement is part of an initiative from the French government to highlight COVID-19’s potentially debilitating"We will no doubt have to consider organizing a humanitarian airlift from Europe to transport aid [to Africa],” France’s foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drain, told the French National Assembly on Thursday.
French President Emmanuel Macron takes part in a video conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, April 8, 2020. “Case numbers are increasing exponentially in the African region,” Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa, said last week. A man assembles beds for newly installed field hospital which will be set with 100 beds after the drill to test their capabilities for the influx of COVID-19 coronavirus patients at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, April 9, 2020.
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