AGP Executive Report
Last update: 20 minutes agoDigital Sovereignty: Zambia deepens its digital sovereignty push with a Huawei AI partnership, including co-investment to build a national data centre so critical government data stays in-country while powering AI-backed digital public services. NCD Care Upgrade: CIDRZ, the Ministry of Health, and partners reviewed progress in strengthening non-communicable disease care through the PEN Plus Programme, highlighting improved access to specialised treatment since rollout began in 2022. Infectious Disease Lab Skills: JICA and Ghana’s Noguchi Memorial Institute train eight healthcare professionals from six African countries (including Zambia) in modern lab technology, with modules covering parasitology, bacteriology, virology and lab quality and biosafety. Wildlife Conservation Diplomacy: Zambia joins regional efforts through KAZA TFCA’s joint management meeting in Victoria Falls, with Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe aligning on elephant conservation and the long-running push around sustainable elephant product trade. US Health Aid Scrutiny: Human Rights Watch flags concerns that US bilateral health agreements condition aid on broad access to surveillance data and pathogen samples, raising privacy and fairness worries. Energy & Climate Risk: A study warns Africa’s solar power pools face rising synchronization risk under climate change, threatening regional power reliability when multiple countries hit low-output days together.
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