The political Implications of COVID- 19 in Sub Saharan Africa

Abstract

COVID- 19 is one of the major challenges and threats facing the whole world Since 2019. African countries are part of the global scene that has been negatively affected by the implications of the pandemic in all spheres. In the African context, the political implications are worthy of attention, notwithstanding the other economic, educational, social, etc implications of the pandemic all over the continent. As a result, African states adopted some initiatives that aimed at strengthening cooperation to face such pandemic and to reduce its negative impact all over the continent. In this context, this paper aims at studying and analyzing the political implications of COVID- 19 in the African context, with special emphasis on sub- Saharan Africa, together with the efforts that have been exerted by the political leadership in different African countries to deal with such crisis. The paper then concludes that African countries varied in regards to their approach in dealing with the pandemic and its implications, and despite all the efforts that have been exerted in this regard, there are many challenges that undermined the attempts of the political leadership in sub- Saharan Africa to contain the negative implications of COVID- 19, especially on the political level.