Thursday, November 21African Digital Business Magazine

Tag: Migration

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Demand for African Talent is Increasing

Strategies to share talent between Africa and France By Kiné Seck Mercier A young woman spends her youth in Nigeria, leaving to attend a university in London. She goes on to work in the United States, Ghana, South America, Kenya and Zambia, finally settling in Paris. In many ways, she is illustrating an increasingly common trend in younger generations—a desire to work abroad and to contribute to building the African economy. We wanted to examine this trend in more detail: What’s driving this new generation to work in Africa? What is the scale of this trend? What is the impact on other countries as rising leaders are drawn to opportunities in Africa? To answer these questions, we held a series of 10 Africa Leadership Dinners and conducted interviews to uncover what is at the root of this ...
Health (in)security and migration: African lessons for a world in transition
Main, South Africa News

Health (in)security and migration: African lessons for a world in transition

By Annamarie Bindenagel Šehović Analysis in Brief: Global health security lies at the intersection of Europe and Africa, between inherited state-based intervention and a new regional, global approach. Given this, it is vital to redefine health security and it is imperative that this new definition include cross-border populations. Likewise, knowledge exchange in both definitional scope and political and experimental approaches across Africa and beyond is an important contributor to health security in a globalised world. Global health security agenda Image courtesy: Homeland Preparedness News, 2018 Introduction Health insecurities know no borders. In Africa, these include not only infectious diseases, but also non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and a context marked by deficits in treatment p...