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USA/Africa: privatisation of health aid

Paul Martial — 2026-02-12T11:34:10Z

Recent agreements between the United States and some fifteen African countries are radically reshaping health cooperation on the continent, even as Washington has just left the World Health Organisation (WHO).
These new partnerships are part of the so-called America First Global Health strategy, which makes aid conditional on US priorities. In December, Washington signed memoranda with some fifteen countries setting specific objectives for epidemic surveillance, laboratory strengthening (…)

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Africa, Zambia, Guinea-Bissau

Zambia: people are victims of extractivism

Paul Martial — 2025-05-01T16:21:00Z

Despite recurring environmental disasters and the dangers to the population, the government of Zambia continues its extractivist policy. The southern African country has once again been hit by major pollution. 50 million tonnes of acidic sludge were discharged into the watercourse running alongside the Chinese company Sino Metals in Chambishi, which processes copper ores.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Zambia

The looters' ball in Africa

Paul Martial — 2024-12-26T14:08:14Z

This was US President Joe Biden's first and last trip to Africa, just a few weeks before the end of his mandate. His visit to Angola at the beginning of December was not insignificant, as the country is the centrepiece of a major investment for the USA and the European Union (EU): the Lobito Corridor. The Lobito Corridor project, from Zambia to Angola, is part of a heightened inter-imperialist competition for control of Africa's critical resources.

- IV599 - December 2024 / United States (USA), Democratic Republic of Congo, European Union, Zambia, Angola

Africa: plummeting commodity prices might lead to a new debt crisis

Éric Toussaint — 2015-01-20T11:38:24Z

In 2014, Rwanda and Ethiopia, two of the world's poorest countries, sold public debt bonds on the financial markets of the most industrialized countries. While still unstable after civil wars and with debt payments suspended hardly three years ago, the Ivory Coast also managed to find private lenders willing to buy those securities. This was unprecedented in the last 30 years. Kenya and Zambia also issued debt securities.

- IV480 - January 2015 / Economy, Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Debt, Rwanda, Zambia, Angola