Ghana

Health

Nigeria’s $5 Billion Health Deal With Washington Under Fire Over a Clause Letting the U.S. Keep Using Nigerian Specimens After It Ends

The America First memorandum requires Nigeria to share specimens and data within five days of a U.S. request. Doctors and data-protection lawyers call parts of it “one-sided,” Atiku Abubakar wants it published in full, and Ghana’s president rejected a similar compact as “humiliating.”

Oct 13

U.S.–Africa

U.S. Trafficking Report: Ghana Is Africa’s Only Tier 1 Country, Djibouti Moves Up and the Republic of Congo Drops to Tier 3

The State Department’s 2026 Trafficking in Persons report, released Oct. 8, keeps Eritrea on the bottom tier, upgrades Djibouti — host of the main U.S. base in Africa — to Tier 2, and places Ethiopia and Kenya on Tier 2. A Tier 3 ranking can cost governments non-humanitarian U.S. aid.

Oct 12

U.S.–Africa

“The Point Is to Scare People”: Human Rights Watch Says U.S. Has Sent More Than 500 People to African Countries That Are Not Their Own

Oct 12

U.S.–Africa

U.S. Health Aid to Zimbabwe Has Ended After Harare Refused a $367 Million Deal Tied to Data and Biological Samples

Oct 12