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Great gift: Africa, a continent of contradiction, where conflict and innovation, fragility and possibility, poverty and resilience live side by side.
AFRICA DAY 2026

Africa has a gift the world still needs

The demographic case is equally striking. More than 60% of Africans are under 25. By 2050, one in three people aged 15 to 24 anywhere on Earth will be African. A continent this…

  • Max Boqwana
7 min read
The African Governance Report is pushing for all African countries to sign the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area, to establish a common market for 1.3-billion Africans.
AFRICAN GOVERNANCE REPORT

The first assessment of African governance by Africans

The state of governance in Africa has improved, with strong gains made in socioeconomic development

  • Tehillah Nieselow
7 min read
The health department will not buy some medicine for cancer and rare diseases as they are not ‘essential’ but there are legal ways to get drugs unavailable here
ACCESS TO MEDICINES

​Prioritising an overarching approach to medicines regulatory systems strengthening

The aim is to improve access to quality, safe and efficacious medical products

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By working together, those involved in the medicines regulatory systems strengthening work on the continent will benefit those who need it most
ACCESS TO MEDICINES

​AMRH Partnership Platform – Advancing medicines regulatory outcomes in Africa

This initiative will harmonise the different interventions for maximum impact

  • Advertorial Feature
3 min read
Ask not what Africa can do for you
EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Ask not what Africa can do for you, Zuma tells AU

President Jacob Zuma has called on African nations to contribute resources to sustain continental development alongside its international partners.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
The new Nepad
NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA S DEVELOPMENT

The new Nepad

Africa’s development agency has tweaked its name. But is that enough to make it relevant again? <i>Tanya Pampalone</i> talks to Dr Ibrahim Mayaki.

  • Tanya Pampalone
11 min read
NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA S DEVELOPMENT

Nepad summit aims to take Africa into the future

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) summit takes place at the Sandton Convention Centre from March 3 to 5.

  • David Capel
2 min read
A rural woman reaping the rewards of the harvest
FARMING

Sowing seeds for the upswing

Agriculture is the future of Africa, says Professor Richard Mkandawire, New Partnership for Africa’s Development’s (Nepad) agricultural adviser.

  • Mitzi Du Plessis
4 min read