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April 24, 2018 6.24pm SAST   Fake medicines are a lucrative global business. When it comes to malaria drugs that don’t work, they can be deadly. AP Photo/Martin Mejia Malaria, a mosquito-borne parasitic infection that affects about 3.2 billion people in 95 countries , has become largely a disease of the young and poor. Due to effective medications like chloroquine and artemisinins, malaria deaths dropped an estimated 60 percent worldwide between 2000 and 2015 . The Americas and Africa saw the greatest improvements . Still, 216 million new cases of malaria were reported in 2016 , the latest data available. Most of them occurred in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Ivory Coast and Mozambique. And of the 445,000 people who died from the infection, about 70 percent were children under the age of 5 . If malaria is a curable disease with effective treatment, why does it still kill ...

By ALAN COWELL MAY 6, 2018 Afonso Dhlakama, the head of Mozambique’s main opposition party, Renamo, addressed an election rally in 2009. Credit Grant Neuenburg/Reuters Afonso Dhlakama, the leader of Mozambique’s main opposition group, held responsible for exceptional brutality by its often youthful soldiers during a civil war that claimed up to a million mostly civilian lives, died on Thursday at his hide-out in the Gorongosa mountains in southeast Africa. He was 65. The Mozambican authorities confirmed the death but did not specify the cause. News reports said it was either diabetes or a heart attack. President Filipe Nyusi, who had been negotiating a rapprochement with Mr. Dhlakama, a former guerrilla commander, said he had tried to have him evacuate...

John Akwey, Accra 07:15 GMT Tanzanian President John Magufuli has won in the maiden edition of the 2017/18 Africa Prestigious Award on the category of “Excellency in Leadership.” The announcement was revealed at a gala night award ceremony held on Saturday 14 th April, 2018 at the Accra’s A.H Hotel, 43 Kinshasa Crescent, East Legon.  Other categories included achievements in music, film media, technology and business sectors where several high profile artists, political and business people across Africa won in several categories. “It is a great honour for the United Republic of Tanzania. President Magufuli is on his third year in office and the people of Tanzania are so happy and excited about his Presidency. His excellent service and hard work have led into an economic revolution in a positive way,” said a representative from Tanzania who received the award on behalf of the President. The excellence in leadership award recognizes an Africans who a...