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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…
Remembering Nick Kotch, a journalist, mentor and Africanist
I received with great sadness the news that Nicholas Mark Kotch, one of the most distinguished and principled journalists to…
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…
Lessons on building a successful business in Emerging Markets
I have spent most of my career building businesses across emerging markets—Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and…
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…
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 simple steel box changing lives in Ghana
The adaka billa (small box) – is a communal savings box that helps small groups in villages across Ghana save…
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,…