Africa Renewal: December 2016 - March 2017
Cover Story
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Health care: from commitments to action
Governments should concentrate on providing basic health care and affordable drugs
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Departments
Health and Well-being
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Gains made in fight against malaria
Africa is finally making headway in its decades-long fight against malaria
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Diagnosing Africa’s medical brain drain
Higher wages and modern facilities are magnets for Africa’s health workers
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Lifestyle diseases pose new burden for Africa
Diabetes, cancer, heart and respiratory diseases will be the leading killers by 2030
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Public health schemes: Getting it right
Ghana grapples with making health care universally accessible
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Mental illness: Invisible but devastating
Superstitution often blamed for acute mental health diseases
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India’s medical tourism gets Africans’ attention
Many lured by affordable treatment, state-of-the art equipment, top-notch doctors and follow-up care
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Taking health services to remote areas
Mobile camel clinics, motorbike ambulances and other innovations for reaching rural folk
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Business
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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
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Young Ghanaians risk all for "better" life
Some migrate within Africa while others take the risky route to Europe -
