African Leaders In Togo To Help Fight Fake Drug Menace - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 18, 2020
SevenAfrican leaders are in Lome, capital of Togo, as a two-day summit against fakedrugs kicked-off January 17th under the aegis of the Brazzaville Foundation.
Thisis the first time African Heads of State are meeting on the issue of fake drugson the continent, which continues to plague especially sub-Saharan Africa.Discussions at the political and health level are on the agenda to build areliable strategy.
PresidentFaure Gnassingbe is hosting colleagues such as Ugandan President YoweriMuseveni, Congo Republic’s Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Niger’s Mahamadou Issoufou,Macky Sall, of Senegal, Nana Akufo-Addo, of Ghana and Adama Barrow, from TheGambia.
TheTogolese described the phenomenon of fake drugs as a humanitarian scandal andthat the time to act and stamp it out had arrived.
TheBrazzaville Foundation, an independent-NGO based in London, is teaming-up withInitiative Lome to address the problem of fake drugs, which is a big publichealth issue in sub-Saharan Africa.
Anumber of former Heads of State are also in town, as is the head of the WorldHealth Organization, WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus.