Africa: Time to Rethink Health Financing – It’s Not Just a Public Sector Concern

Africa: Time to Rethink Health Financing – It’s Not Just a Public Sector Concern

By Hatice Beton, Roberto Durán-Fernández, Dennis Ostwald and Rifat Atun As G7 leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations wrapped up their summit in Kananaskis June 16, a critical issue was absent from the agenda: the future of global health financing. Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, trade conflicts and cuts to development aid, health has been sidelined…

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Cape Town to fill gaps in e-hailing, meter-taxi sector

Cape Town to fill gaps in e-hailing, meter-taxi sector

There is a need for 6 600 legal e-hailing and metered taxi operators in the Cape Town metropolitan area. Cape Town’s urban mobility directorate, in collaboration with the Western Cape government’s provincial regulatory entity (PRE), has initiated a two-phased process to support e-hailing and metered taxi operators. This, says the city, is to meet the…

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