Ebola: Short-term panic, long-term neglect
The current Ebola outbreak reported in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is the 17th since the disease was first identified 50 years ago.
Cameroon's $300-million gold drain
African countries lose about $90-billion a year to illicit financial flows. These are “mostly linked to trade misinvoicing in extractive commodities, half of them in gold”, according to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
Macron in The Kenya
Emmanuel Macron has visited Africa more than any French president in history. According to a former advisor, he returns from his trips “reinvigorated” by what he once called “this battered continent”.