Month: June 2024

World bank boosts inclusive healthcare resilience in Mali

Ousmane Tandja

The World Bank has approved a $100 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) to strengthen Mali’s healthcare system, ensuring accessible, high-quality services for reproductive, maternal, neonatal, infant, adolescent, and nutritional health. The initiative also bolsters preparedness for health emergencies in vulnerable regions. The project, titled Keneya Yiriwali (meaning “Health for All” in Bambara), adopts a results-based financing (RBF) approach to enhance essential healthcare services, particularly in underserved areas. It prioritizes RMNCAH+N services—reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health and nutrition—by expanding coverage and strengthening the healthcare pyramid. Funding…

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Military juntas in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger face legitimacy crisis amid repression

Aïcha Abdou

The military juntas in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are facing deepening crises of legitimacy as they resort to widespread repression, arbitrary detentions, and restrictions on freedoms. This crackdown has left human rights defenders and journalists in a precarious position, struggling to operate under mounting pressure. why repression fails to hide systemic failures Alioune Tine, President of Afrikajom Center, highlights the growing difficulties faced by these regimes. ‘’The reality today is that Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s regime in Burkina Faso, and its counterparts in Mali and Niger, are trapped in a…

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