By Abdourahmane Diallo, Lucica Ditiu and Winnie ByanyimaGENEVA – As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa surpasses 500,000, the new coronavirus is at the forefront of the public consciousness.

By Seth Berkley , Richard Hatchett and Soumya SwaminathanGENEVA — Every day, the COVID-19 pandemic costs the world thousands more lives and billions more dollars.

By Kailash Satyarthi and Prince Ali Bin Hussein NEW DELHI/AMMAN — Taima’a al-Hariri, a 17-year-old Syrian refugee living in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, had been regularly attending school before the Jordanian authorities introduced a necessary lockdown to combat the

By Naïm Abou-Jaoudé and Nick Robin LONDON — It will take time for the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic consequences to come into full view. But some of the costs are already becoming apparent, beginning with the devastation the crisis will wreak on the global workforce.

By Abiy Ahmed and Gordon BrownADDIS ABABA/LONDON — The oft-repeated idea that COVID-19 is “the great equaliser” is a myth.

By Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek MELBOURNE/LODZ — In late May and June, following the brutal death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis, mass protests against systemic racism took place across the United States and around the wo

By Jaana Remes and Katherine Linzer SAN FRANCISCO — The COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions have devastated communities and economies around the world.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Robert Howse, and Anne-Marie SlaughterNEW YORK — In the wake of COVID-19, there is an urgent need for sovereign debt restructuring, including debt relief.

By Michel Goldman and Michel D. KazatchkineBRUSSELS/GENEVA — As many countries progressively relax their COVID-19 containment measures, preventing a renewed spread of the coronavirus from emerging infection clusters will be key to controlling the pandemic.