Headings Covered in this issue

Headings Covered in this issue The Impact of Covid-19 and the Recovery Challenges in the Horn of Africa (HoA) The Covid pandemic has hit the HoA region on top of the problems of many fragile states, such as prevalent conflicts and difficult transitions, wide spread poverty and food insecurity, and large numbers of vulnerable displaced people and refugees. [...] Ali Issa, The Managing Director of HESPI, made a presentation at the China Africa O Institute’s virtual seminar on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) to discuss the economic, trade and finance cooperation in the past two decades since the Forum was established, as well as the more recent contributions of the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa. [...] The purpose of the mission was to hold consultations with the Qatari authorities with regard to the mandate of the AUHIP of developing a road map for cooperation within the countries of the Horn of Africa, and the Gulf and Red Sea Basin States. [...] It is enormously difficult to predict the scale of the damage on these fragile HoA countries’ health and economic status, as much will depend on the spread and duration of the crisis, and more importantly on the efficacy of measures adopted to contain and mitigate the spread of the virus. [...] 5) The impact of COVID-19 on the HoA countries The report highlighted the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the health and economy of the HoA region.