ACHAP spreads into broader Africa

African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) intends expanding its footprint to other African nations, as its main funders will stop funding in December.

Speaking during the awards ceremony on Friday, Jerome Mafeni, ACHAP chief executive said the organisation is introducing new strategy in which it will have multiple funders as the main funders are revising their funding priorities.

He said ACHAP is confronting a time of many significant global changes in the financial, health and development arenas. “This is also a time when our main funders are reviewing and revising their funding priorities leading to cut-backs or total cessation of funding,” said Mafeni.

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Ruling party should tread carefully on cadre deployment

But on the particularly sensitive question of cadre deployment, the BNF must tread very carefully.The issue deserves robust debate, not ideological enthusiasm. Recent public comments from the BNF leadership are reassuring: the party has said that government positions should be based on merit and competence rather than party membership, and that it does not have a specific cadre-deployment policy.That principle should remain firmly at the centre...

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