Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sat. May 2, 2020 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the extension by two weeks of the lockdown in the Republic of Zimbabwe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; Ethiopia has given an update on the situation inside this Horn of Africa state in relationship to the COVID-19 outbreak; Somalia is facing an escalation in COVID-19 cases as precautionary measures are being enacted; and the Union of Comoros has recorded its first case of the virus. In the second and third hours we continue our coverage of the global impact of the pandemic. We review a briefing by World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Geneva. Finally, we rebroadcast May Day messages from President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe and President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa.