🏥 The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out! This week’s focus: a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC — and a notably self-critical Agenc …

🏥 The latest issue of our CDG Global Development Brief is out!
This week’s focus: a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC — and a notably self-critical Agence Ecofin editorial asking why Africa still relies so heavily on external aid in health emergencies. Africa has built its own CDC, stronger labs, its own surveillance systems — what’s missing are the financial reflexes: in 2001 in Abuja, states pledged 15% of spending on health; a quarter-century later, the average sits at half that.
And as that question resurfaces, three more stories show just how differently the answers play out: Japan trains 2,000 entrepreneurs across 11 African countries via the UN’s UNITAR — squarely embedded in its TICAD strategy to counter China’s presence. Pan-African AFC sets up its own insurance company in Bermuda to self-price credit risk. And Senegal agrees a $2.2bn IMF deal — alongside an announced debt restructuring.
Also in this issue: funding calls with realistic lead time, including the World Bank-hosted Pandemic Fund.

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