Questions Remain Over Accountability As Global Fund Settles $1.4M Cameroon Dispute
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, a Geneva-based international financing institution created to channel donor funding toward the world's three deadliest infectious diseases, has confirmed the resolution of a compliance case involving $1.4 million in flagged health expenditures in Cameroon. The confirmation was provided in an exclusive…
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Forget who holds the share; measure what the share builds: Africa’s necessary pivot from ownership to performance.
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The case for shared African ownership is settled. What remains unresolved, and what Kigali will assert without scrutiny, is whether…
Mombasa-Kinshasa Corridor Faces Security Rupture Despite Record Port Volumes
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African Lithium Competition Intensifies as Battery Supply Chains Shift
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Starlink’s African Expansion Pressures Telecom Operators and Regulators
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As Trump's tariffs hollow out AGOA and upend decades of US-Africa trade, Beijing's sweeping zero-tariff policy for 53 nations, effective May 1, reshapes the continent's strategic calculus.
Africa’s LNG Surge Reshapes Global Supply as Middle East Tensions Redirect Energy Flows
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Citizens Demand Accountability as Conflict Talks Collapse Again
Fourth round of ceasefire negotiations collapses without progress, sparking widespread protests and renewed calls for independent oversight of a diplomatic process critics say lacks accountability.
Private Credit and Stablecoins: Financial Bypass or Strategic Integration?
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The AI Boom Sparks Massive Demand for Cobalt and Lithium
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