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The COVID pandemic has caused substantial disruptions to routine national immunisation programmes. These used to prevent about 800,000 deaths in Africa every year. While the full impact has yet to be felt, countries around the continent are already seeing a resurgence in vaccine preventable diseases, such as measles in Zimbabwe and polio in Mozambique. Edina Amponsah-Dacosta argues that now is the time for African leaders to recommit to building resilient
health systems.
In Kenya, the debt ceiling has been a moving target, set and flouted by successive regimes as tax collections fail to match public expenditure. It has recently been adjusted upward but the country’s actual debt is already over the limit. The World Bank has warned of a high risk of default. Odongo Kodongo explains what the debt ceiling is and why Kenya needs to stick to it.
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Edina Amponsah-Dacosta, University of Cape Town
The pandemic has disrupted national immunisation programmes. As a result, the African continent is seeing more outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases.
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Odongo Kodongo, University of the Witwatersrand
There’s a gap between Kenya’s public spending and its revenue. If the country owes more than it can repay, citizens will suffer.
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Catherine Pereira-Kotze, University of the Western Cape
The domestic workers’ place of work, as a private household, is difficult to monitor. It is therefore challenging for government to enforce current legislation.
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Seun Kolade, De Montfort University
Nigeria’s lecturers’ strike raises fundamental questions about how Nigerian universities are run and funded.
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Jabulani Sikhakhane, The Conversation
A recent spam attack led us to closing comments on all articles across The Conversation’s seven sites.
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Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham; Tatyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy
Vladimir Putin’s televised address to the Russian people is a desperate attempt to raise the stakes over the war in Ukraine.
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A look at the risk factors behind the increasing cases of early-onset cancer.
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Invertebrates are “the little things that run the world”. So researchers decided to count all the ants on Earth, to help monitor how they’re coping with environmental challenges.
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