Africa/International

Africa must urgently expand pharmaceutical manufacturing and healthcare innovation to reduce dependence on imports and secure a market projected to exceed $100 billion by 2030.

The African Group of Negotiators (AGN) on Climate Change has called for stronger focus on adaptation, climate finance and equitable international cooperation as negotiations opened at Bonn, Germany. 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have launched a joint continental response plan to strengthen preparedness and response efforts against…

Biotech firms in Germany raised notably less money last year than in 2024, according to a report released by the consultancy firm EY and the BIO Deutschland industry association.

Participants at a reparations and reparatory justice forum have argued that Africa must address the spiritual, psychological, cultural and developmental damage caused by slavery before any meaningful reparations programme can achieve…

The US doctor being treated for Ebola in Berlin's Charité hospital was discharged on Saturday after two weeks.

Madam Natasha Quist, the Regional Director for West Africa, AGRA, has underscored the need for coordinated financing and stronger investment partnerships to drive rice production and agricultural transformation across West Africa. 

Invasive pests are costing Africa an estimated $7 billion annually, threatening food security, livelihoods and regional trade, Dr Victor Clottey, Regional Director for West Africa at the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International…

Mr Labram Musah, the Executive Director of the Vision for Accelerated Sustainable Development, Ghana has called on African governments to hold tobacco industry accountable for the tobacco-related deaths in their countries.

President John Dramani Mahama says Africa is rising not as a passive observer but as a decisive force in shaping the future global economy.