AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoHealth Data for Africa: Rwanda is sharing its National Health Intelligence Centre experience with Burkina Faso and six other countries through a South-to-South learning exchange in Kigali, pushing countries to own and use their health data locally. Water-Energy-Food Research: Under the EU-funded EPIC Africa Project, Ghana and Burkina Faso stakeholders met in Accra to strengthen sustainable governance of the Volta Basin, linking energy generation, food security and water resilience with support from TU Delft and local basin institutions. Climate Impacts on Sleep: A new Climate Central analysis finds climate change has at least doubled heat-related sleep loss in major cities, with West Africa (including Burkina Faso) among the hardest hit. Connectivity Resilience: CSquared launched capacity on the 2Africa West submarine cable to reduce landing-station concentration risk and improve international connectivity reliability across West and Central Africa. Security Hardware Push: A Nigeria-based startup, Terra Industries, says it builds drones and surveillance systems with mostly local inputs and has secured seed funding to scale. Regional Security Cooperation: ASEC 2026 wrapped in Accra, with delegates focusing on counterterrorism, cyber resilience, climate-driven insecurity and aviation security, and urging real follow-through.
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