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A Negligent Discharge: How an Unfounded Foreign-Aid Claim Endangered Mozambique’s HIV Response

By Bolaji Ogunfemi A negligent discharge occurs when a weapon is fired unintentionally because the person controlling it fails to exercise the care demanded by its destructive capacity. Harm may not have been the objective. That does not make what happened an innocent accident. Someone had control of the weapon. Someone knew, or ought toContinue reading “A Negligent Discharge: How an Unfounded Foreign-Aid Claim Endangered Mozambique’s HIV Response”

Climate Resilience in Africa: Six Priorities for an Era of Rising Risk and Falling Aid

By Bolaji Ogunfemi Between 2005 and 2024, climate-related disasters disrupted the schooling of 130 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa and caused US$1.3 billion in direct damage to education infrastructure. UNICEF and Dalberg put the resulting loss in lifetime earnings at up to US$140 billion, rising towards US$380 billion by 2050 if nothing changes.Continue reading “Climate Resilience in Africa: Six Priorities for an Era of Rising Risk and Falling Aid”

Biomedical engineers from across Africa are collaborating to build medical devices

Biomedical engineering can save lives. It draws on and integrates knowledge from disciplines like engineering, computer science, biomedical sciences, and public health as well as clinical practice. This knowledge is combined to improve health—often through the design of medical devices for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. Most of Africa’s medical equipment is imported. “Equipment graveyards” becomeContinue reading “Biomedical engineers from across Africa are collaborating to build medical devices”

Africa’s opportunity and reasons for a reset

At a time of great uncertainty in world affairs, Africa serves its interests best by putting its house in order. That process begins by identifying and addressing the region’s major challenges as well as setting clear, limited and actionable policy priorities. Africa has never been short of plans or programmes of actions. From the LagosContinue reading “Africa’s opportunity and reasons for a reset”

Nigeria ranked 152 in global human development index – UNDP report

Nigeria has been ranked 152 amongst the 193 United Nations (UN) member states in the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for 2016 released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The country is followed closely by Cameroon in number 153 and Zimbabwe in 154 position. The report places Nigeria below neighbouring Ghana which is placed 139,Continue reading “Nigeria ranked 152 in global human development index – UNDP report”