Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony Elumelu, has said Africa needs investment and trade, not aid, to drive its development and unlock the continent’s economic potential.
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Addis Ababa — Ministers, health leaders and partners at the first WHO Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Global Meeting held in Addis Ababa took steps towards an Addis Accord to secure sustained financing for national teams and make them a permanent part of countries’ health emergency workforce.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report on trafficking in medical products in Central Africa, developed in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Commission of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC), sheds new light on the scale and characteristics of this phenomenon in the region.
Climate-related disasters, including droughts, floods and cyclones, have displaced millions in sub-Saharan Africa. Identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a climate hotspot, the region faces severe vulnerabilities due to increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events. Migration, predominantly internal, serves as a key adaptation strategy to environmental and economic challenges. Concurrently, the…
As aid recedes, the African philosophy of Ubuntu offers a moral foundation for development cooperation built on reciprocal obligations rather than donor-recipient hierarchies
In Chad, Africa’s fifth-largest country, where the under-five mortality rate still hovers around 100 deaths per 1,000 live births, access to vaccination remains a major challenge. In the east of the country, near Adré, a mobile clinic is reaching even the most remote populations.
According to the latest statistics Africa’s Catholic population has now surpassed Europe’s, rising to 288.3 million
Senegal Oct 31– A four-month-old baby who was brought to a Nairobi clinic with a fever and a runny nose was found to have a congenital heart defect after an artificial intelligence (AI) tool flagged abnormalities in the child’s vital signs, prompting further medical examination
Founder of Beauty in the Motherland (BITML), Beatrice Nnadili Eneh, has called for greater investment in local manufacturing, industrial development, and cross-border trade in Africa’s beauty and personal care industry, describing CANEX WKND 2026 as an important platform for advancing the continent’s economic integration.
