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Davos 2022
Africa Was Pushed To The Back Of The Queue During COVID-19 – Winnie Byanyi
Africa
These doctors are using boats to bring healthcare to a remote African archipelago
Three thousand Kenyans now have access to healthcare thanks to Safari Doctors who have taken to the waterways to treat patients in their island homeland.
Davos 2022
How Africa’s free trade area is an opportunity for recovery and development
Accelerating the implementation African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) would drive the region’s long-term recovery and growth.
Africa
Growing Intra-African Trade through Digital Transformation of Border and Customs Services: Regional Action Group for Africa
This report, prepared in collaboration with Deloitte, offers a pragmatic perspective on non-tariff barriers encountered in border and customs services. It argues that these can be exponen...
Davos 2022
How clinical development can tackle Africa's unique health needs
Commercially-led clinical development activity has been neglected in Africa; that must change with the continent's evolving population and health profile.
UpLink
Innovative local solutions can create a green future for the Sahel
Bright young entrepreneurs and the funders and investors supporting them are driving collaborative action to increase the chance of a green, healthy future for the Sahel.
Africa
Averting an African food crisis in the wake of the Ukraine war
Despite hosting 60% of the world's arable land, Africa is a major food importer. As the war in Ukraine rages, the continent faces another food crisis.
Health and Healthcare
Kenya's Safari Doctors Bring Healthcare To Coastal Villages By Boat
Energy
East Africa's Electric Motorcycle Taxis Are Helping To Cut Emissions
Africa
Africa faces new shock as Ukraine war raises food and fuel costs
Africa’s economic growth is likely to fall this year because of surging food and fuel prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the IMF.
Forests
From drones to data: New innovations are supporting Africa's health systems
From tackling malaria to boosting maternal health, innovators in Africa are turning to healthtech to fill the gaps in often overburdened healthcare systems.
Africa
Better transport can bring African countries closer together and support their economies
A new agreement on the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) is hoping to boost regional trade, economic growth and job creation across the continent.
Global Health
Malaria and agriculture are linked. Here's the evidence from 16 African countries
Agriculture and malaria transmission are closely linked – the agricultural revolution pushed people closer together and nearer to water, where mosquitoes thrive
Africa
Only 1.7% of Africans expected to live in extreme poverty by 2065, experts predict
Extreme poverty in Africa has been falling slowly, but there's expected to be huge progress in the next 40 years, falling from 35% of the population to 1.7%
Africa
This is how Africa is reducing its child mortality rate
Deaths of children under one have fallen from 183 per 1,000 live births in 1955 to 47 in 2020. But this is still far more than in other parts of the world.