Janice Kew

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Loni Prinsloo |Janice Kew

Annette Naude(Bloomberg) -- Logistics giant DHL Group plans to invest about €500 million ($575 million) in health-care services in Africa and the Middle East over the next five years to capitalize on China‘s push into the regions. The German company is looking particularly at Africa for growth opportunities, with time-critical shipments of vaccines, stem-cells and cryogenics all target areas, EMEA health-care head Annette Naude said in an interview.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Janice Kew

A healthcare worker administers Mpox vaccine in Kampala, Uganda, on February 1. (Bloomberg) -- Africa is set to record more mpox cases this year than it did in 2024, when an explosion of the virus prompted the declaration of an international health emergency. More than 64,000 cases have been reported in the five months through May, nearing the 77,000 registered all of last year, Ngashi Ngongo, a principal adviser at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a briefing Thursday.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Janice Kew

Spar Group Ltd. expects muted store growth in the next year as South Africa’s second-largest grocer by revenue seeks to focus on restructuring the property portfolio in its home market as it also prepares to sell its Swiss and UK businesses. Rapid expansion of retail space in South Africa has raised questions about sustainability, particularly in light of an economy whose growth is slowing and narrowly avoided contraction in the first quarter.

3 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Janice Kew |Antony Sguazzin

For more than two decades, the US was the leader in global efforts to treat and prevent HIV infections. Washington funded lifesaving antiretroviral therapy for more than half of the estimated 40 million people living with HIV around the world, along with community counseling and technical assistance largely through the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar), which since its inception in 2003 has distributed more than $120 billion in funds.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Antony Sguazzin |Janice Kew

Welcome to Next Africa, a twice-weekly newsletter on where the continent stands now — and where it’s headed. Sign up here to have it delivered to your email. The abrupt halt to billions of dollars of US funding for foreign health programs is wreaking havoc.