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Africa is taking the lead on global finance
This year’s spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have made it clear that the global financial…
A plan to end malaria in Africa
By Jean Kaseya Despite being preventable and curable, malaria has continued to claim African lives. In 2023, the continent accounted…
A plan to end malaria in Africa
By Jean Kaseya Despite being preventable and curable, malaria has continued to claim African lives. In 2023, the continent accounted…
How Africa should negotiate with Trump
In a recent interview, Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked Félix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of the…
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Solutions to TB and HIV benefit all of us, North and South
By Monicah Otieno, PhD. In the west of Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, where I come from, a…
Twenty-five years after Zimbabwe’s land reform: What has changed?
This year it’s 25 years since Zimbabwe’s controversial land reform. Ever since the year 2000 when people invaded the land…
Middle Class in Africa
Global economies are facing a situation where in the West, there is a decrease in those falling into the middle…
Africa is paying dearly for the Russian-Ukraine conflict
Inflation, recession and possibly a global recession - these are words haunting the best of us of late.
The key to unlocking Africa’s economic potential
Fostering intra-African integration and removing trade barriers will be critical to Africa’s coming economic transformation. Two agreements, in particular, promise…
Answering the challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance
Africa, like every other continent, has an AMR problem. But Africa stands out because we have not invested in the…
Investing in Africa’s Health
COVID-19 has reversed some of the progress made in the fight to eradicate AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis in Africa. But,…
Equal opportunities: Securing the roles of the future for the next generation in Africa
Equality is defined as ‘the state of being equal, especially in status, rights or opportunities’ but the digital divide is…
Africa’s shifting economic paradigm
Before the outbreak of COVID-19, Africa experienced 25 years of uninterrupted economic expansion, prompting analysts to proclaim that the continent’s growth momentum…
Africa’s debt distress aggravating economic crisis
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has roped in African Development Bank President Dr Akinumwi and former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano to…