The World Health Organisation (WHO) has allocated 20,000 doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine for a major clinical research programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as health authorities race to contain an expanding outbreak of the deadly Bundibugyo virus.
Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Transcorp Group, Tony Elumelu, has identified unreliable electricity, inadequate access to capital, poor value addition and limited intra-African trade as major obstacles to Africa's economic development, calling for urgent reforms to unlock the continent's enormous potential.