Africa Renewal: December 2016 - March 2017
Cover Story
Health care: from commitments to action
Governments should concentrate on providing basic health care and affordable drugs
African youth hungry for connectivity
More opportunities to innovate and create
Departments
Health and Well-being
Gains made in fight against malaria
Africa is finally making headway in its decades-long fight against malaria
It’s time to rethink medical insurance
A mobile phone plan in Kenya targets low-income groups
Diagnosing Africa’s medical brain drain
Higher wages and modern facilities are magnets for Africa’s health workers
Lifestyle diseases pose new burden for Africa
Diabetes, cancer, heart and respiratory diseases will be the leading killers by 2030
Public health schemes: Getting it right
Ghana grapples with making health care universally accessible
We can improve health systems in Africa
— Dr. Matshidiso Moeti
Africa's new strategies to defeat HIV/AIDS
Prevention, treatment and care cut new infections by 14%
Wanted: affordable medicines for all
UN panel calls for new global accords to make drugs cheaper
Mental illness: Invisible but devastating
Superstitution often blamed for acute mental health diseases
India’s medical tourism gets Africans’ attention
Many lured by affordable treatment, state-of-the art equipment, top-notch doctors and follow-up care
Taking health services to remote areas
Mobile camel clinics, motorbike ambulances and other innovations for reaching rural folk
Dying from lack of medicines
Encouraging local production, right policies the way out
Business
Commodity prices crash hits Africa
Volatile global financial markets and weaknesses in global growth to blame
Africa welcomes new trade initiatives from Japanese investors
TICAD VI’s Nairobi Declaration is aimed at boosting economic ties
Morocco flexed economic muscles and returned to the AU
The North African country has now rejoined the African Union, having worked slowly but steadily to establish itself as a major economic force in sub-Saharan Africa.
Business opportunities through government tenders
African companies to bid for contracts around the world
Refugees & Migrants
Young Ghanaians risk all for "better" life
Some migrate within Africa while others take the risky route to Europe
Africa most affected by refugee crisis
Ethiopia and Uganda praised for open-door policy
