A warning is only the beginning.

Residents in Ghana’s Birim North District reported unusually high numbers of pig deaths. Their reports reached the Ghana Health Service, veterinary officers and environmental health officials, who investigated together.

WHO’s account does not state the cause of the deaths or the investigation’s outcome. The episode shows that a community alert reached the teams able to investigate it; it does not establish that an outbreak was prevented.

A Pandemic Fund-supported programme trained 271 health and multisectoral staff and 280 community informants across nine districts in three regions. Their work supplements routine case reporting from health facilities: a community observation can be assessed before it appears in clinical data.

WHO says districts are receiving more signals and coordinating more closely, but gives no independently verified measure of faster diagnosis or fewer infections.

The National Treasury and Central Bank of Kenya have put a draft National Payment System Bill before the public. Section 29 would require payment providers and system operators to have secure means of sharing customer data for open-finance services. The Central Bank could require a sharing mechanism after the customer consents. The bill also provides for account-information services and payment-initiation providers and proposes wider interoperability among payment systems. It is a proposal: no new sharing duty has taken effect.

The potential gain is real. A person or business could, with permission, use their transaction history across providers to access more competitive services. But the draft leaves the detailed operating rules to later Central Bank regulations. Consent alone does not settle which data may be accessed, how long it is retained, whether it can be reused to train credit models, how authorisation is withdrawn, or who bears the loss if a third party is breached.

Chairing African climate-leaders’ discussions ahead of COP31, Kenya’s President argued for a credible delivery path for adaptation finance. His published statement says the Adaptation Fund received approximately US$138 million in pledges against a US$300 million target in the previous year. That is a comparison of pledges and a target, not an audited record of cash received or projects completed.

The negotiation is consequential for African countries because adaptation has to be financed before damage is visible in national accounts. Yet the journey from a multilateral commitment to drainage, water storage or heat-resilient clinics crosses multiple decisions: national project preparation, eligibility, approval, transfer, procurement and maintenance. A larger pledge can still leave a community exposed if any link fails.

Botswana’s finance minister now projects a deficit of 9.26 billion pula, or 3.1% of GDP, for 2026–27. The February budget had projected 26.35 billion pula, or 8.9% of GDP. He attributed part of the improvement to an 8.1 billion pula upward revision in expected revenue, driven by a larger than anticipated transfer from the Bank of Botswana, alongside efforts to contain spending. The revised number remains a forecast.

The improvement arrives after two years of economic contraction and a prolonged weakness in the diamond market. Diamonds typically supply roughly a third of government revenue and three quarters of foreign-exchange earnings, according to Reuters. This concentration means a stronger fiscal headline can coexist with vulnerability to demand and price shifts. The finance minister himself warned that structural pressures remain.