INTRODUCTION
In a recent BBC radio interview, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stated, “global problems need global solutions (…) the only way out of the fiscal crisis is through global action.” This addendum summarizes the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic, in relation to achievement of IDPAD’s thematic objectives, and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims to reduce inequality within and between countries. The impact of COVID-19 otherwise known as novel coronavirus, highlights Afrophobia/Afriphobia within the UN OHCHR Region of Europe, Central Asia, and North America. Rojas Davila (in Carneiro, 2018, pp.11-12) considers it “fundamental to perceive IDPAD as the perfect opportunity to debate racism (…) repositioning the question of race at the centre of the regional agenda on human rights”. Wilson (2017, pp.432-433) also argues, it is essential to re-centre race in dominant discourses challenging inequality and racialization of material development processes for the achievement of the SDGs. 
 
According to John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre, countries within this Region are amongst those with the highest mortality or case fatality rates for novel coronavirus, which reflects the number of deaths in a population divided by the number of confirmed cases. Notably Belgium (13.4%), Italy (13%) and the UK (12.8%) had the highest COVID-19 mortality rates in April 2020.  Moreover, Afrikan communities are statistically shown to be disproportionately affected. For example, In New York which is deemed to be the epicentre of the global pandemic, of 90 % state-wide reporting, 18 % of deaths have been Black people, who account for only 9 % of the state’s population. In New York City with 65% reporting, 28 % of deaths have been Black people, who account for 22 % of the urbanism’s population, (Cineas, 2020). In Illinois, Black people were 42 % of fatalities but are only 14.6 % of the state’s population; whilst in the city of Chicago, we represented approximately 70 % fatalities and more than 50 % of cases but are approximately 30 % of the urbanism’s total population” (Cineas, 2020). Similarly, the mortality rate for Black people in Louisiana was more than 70 %, whereas the state population is approximately 33 % PAD.
 
UK statistics also highlight disproportionately high COVID-19 infection rates amongst Black people in British urbanisms with sizeable Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) populations, such as Birmingham and the London Borough of Brent. “The issue of race is (therefore) central to tackling the virus and without a purposeful, intersectional approach centring on BAME communities, the current outbreak will lead to severe consequences and further entrench racial inequalities” (BSWN, 2020). In that regard, the International Coalition of People of African Descent (ICPAD) facilitated knowledge exchange on the impact of the deadly coronavirus pandemic on Afrikan (African diaspora) communities globally. These narratives give agency to invisible Afrikan communities, that enables IDPAD’s achievements and challenges to be shared and amplified across different structures and processes, e.g. with reference to the International Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) 1965, and Durban Declaration and Plan of Action (DDPA) 2001.