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President John Dramani Mahama has called on African nations to urgently build self-reliant health systems, warning that the continent can no longer depend on foreign aid to meet its medical needs. Speaking at the opening of the African Union Extraordinary Summit on Universal Health Coverage in Accra, Mahama framed the gathering as a new kind of liberation struggle not against colonial rule, but against disease, weak infrastructure, and dependence on foreign healthcare systems. “Africa can no l…

President John Dramani Mahama has called on African heads of state to significantly increase domestic healthcare funding, warning that the continent’s reliance on foreign aid has become an unsustainable and urgent vulnerability. Speaking at the opening of the African Union’s Extraordinary Summit on Universal Health Coverage and ending AIDS in Accra, Mahama invoked the 25-year-old Abuja Declaration, in which African nations pledged to allocate at least 15 per cent of national budgets to health. …

The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has agreed on the need to address growing concerns over rising xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa at the next AU summit. His commitment came after bilateral talks with President John Dramani Mahama, who reiterated his request on the sidelines of the AU Extraordinary Summit on Universal Health Coverage and ending AIDS, held in Accra. President Mahama disclosed that the South African President, on Tu…

President John Dramani Mahama has hosted senior global health leaders at the Presidency for high-level talks on strengthening public health systems across the African continent. The delegation included Ms Winnie Byanyima, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNAIDS, and Ms Joy Phumaphi, Executive Secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA). Discussions focused on deepening public health cooperation, strengthening immunisation systems, and intensifying the fight aga…

July 20, 2026 onLatest News,Press Releases President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on other African countries to lend their voices to unanimously condemn the ongoing Afro-phobic attacks, also known as Xenophobia, in South Africa. A united voice, according to the Nigerian leader, will send a clear message to that Southern African country that such intolerance is absolutely not acceptable under any form. Speaking on Sunday in Freetown, Sierra Leone, during the 69th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS…

The 20th Extraordinary Session of the African Union Conference on Health, held in Accra on July 21, under the chairmanship of His Excellency Évariste Ndayishimiye, President of the Republic of Burundi and current Chairman of the African Union, ended on July 22, 2026. Devoted to health justice and universal health coverage in Africa, this session resulted in the adoption of a declaration reaffirming the commitment of Heads of State and Government to promote justice, equity and universal access t…