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Covid-19 in the Horn of Africa: gaining trust in a crisis
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Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
Abstract On reaching the Horn of Africa, the corona virus will have encountered countries already facing a multitude of challenges. Prolonged armed conflict, drought and insecurity have turned more than eight million people into refugees in their own countries, and a further 3.5 million have fled to neighbou... view more
On reaching the Horn of Africa, the corona virus will have encountered countries already facing a multitude of challenges. Prolonged armed conflict, drought and insecurity have turned more than eight million people into refugees in their own countries, and a further 3.5 million have fled to neighbouring countries where they live in overcrowded refugee camps. All the countries in this region are in a fragile state of political transformation or have been severely weakened by war and government failures. They possess neither the capacity to contain the Covid pandemic nor to mitigate the resulting unemployment, poverty and hunger. In order to guard against jeopardising the process of democratisation in Sudan and Ethiopia, special emphasis should be placed on social security systems and gaining the trust of the population. This requires an emergency aid package from abroad that will ensure the economic survival of all countries in the region. However, long-term support should be conditional on guaranteeing that most of the investment goes into developing state capacities for critical infrastructure and social security. (Autorenreferat)... view less
Keywords
nutrition; EU; epidemic; South Sudan; society; Africa; transitional society; Sudan; socioeconomic development; health policy; social security; democratization; health care; Somalia; authoritarianism; development aid policy; Ethiopia; health care delivery system; national state; Federal Republic of Germany; legitimation; UNO; domination; contagious disease; development aid
Classification
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
Health Policy
Free Keywords
Nordostafrika; Horn von Afrika; COVID-19
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
8 p.
Series
SWP Comment, 20/2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18449/2020C20
ISSN
1861-1761
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications