AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoEbola Response: Eastern Congo’s Ebola outbreak keeps accelerating, with government data putting cases at 5,514 and deaths at 2,642, including 317 deaths in the last week—health workers say the real toll could be up to three times higher. Public Health Watch: WHO reports a sharp rise in Afghanistan’s infectious diseases in July, including dengue (473 suspected, +85.5%), acute watery diarrhea (+31.6%), respiratory infections, measles, and COVID-19. Mobile Money Upgrade: MTN and Ericsson completed a cloud-native migration of MTN MoMo in Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda, cutting CPU overhead and database load by up to 86% and speeding API responses by up to 80%. Telecom Leadership: MTN appoints Ikenna Ikeme as Executive for Group Regulatory Affairs (effective 7 Sept 2026) and adds another operations executive for Francophone markets. Congo Basin Climate & Food: Yaounde hosted a 15-nation summit on agroecology, food security and biodiversity protection across the Congo Basin, targeting resilience to droughts and flooding. Remote Work Reality: A Remitly study ranks the Republic of the Congo among Africa’s top remote-job markets (95.4%), while South Africa sits at the bottom (17.6%).
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