Health should not be charitable cost

African leaders must not treat health as a charitable cost and instead position it as an investable, high-growth economic sector, President John Dramani Mahama has said.

The inaugural Alamein Africa Forum was established as a permanent African Business Forum to convene biennially in Egypt, assembling senior leaders from leading international and regional financial institutions and key actors driving transformative change across Africa's most critical sectors, from infrastructure, trade and critical minerals to digital innovation, health markets and the emerging industries reshaping the continent's economic identity.

The President said health sovereignty must be a priority for every African country as part of a broader strategy to secure the health and economic future of the continent's 1.