COVID-19 in Africa: Turning a Health Crisis into a Human Security Threat?

Abstract

While the number of African COVID-19 cases is relatively limited fornow, the pandemic and the restrictive measures to curtail the virus might haveimportant implications for the level of human security. They may give rise toeconomic decline and rising poverty, authoritarianism, urban violence, andincreasing social inequalities. In this proceeding, we will outline the mechanismsthrough which these consequences may take hold in Africa.