The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC serves as a critical warning that the global health security system is fundamentally unprepared for future biological threats. The difficulty in containing this outbreak is compounded by the rising risk of emerging pathogens and the growing potential for AI misuse in bioweapon development. Policy must therefore shift from reactive, crisis-driven funding to sustained, proactive investment in resilient public health infrastructure, particularly in conflict zones. Addressing this requires strengthening global surveillance, ensuring consistent international cooperation, and mitigating the intersection of conflict, climate change, and disease spread.
Accelerating the EV Transition in the Global South Through India-Africa Partnership
English Summary
India's decade-long experience scaling electric vehicle adoption through coordinated fiscal incentives, production-linked schemes, and inter-ministerial policy coherence (linking transport, industry, power, and finance) provides a directly applicable blueprint for African nations. African stakeholders identified India's sequenced approach—balancing demand-pull incentives (FAME I), supply-push production schemes (FAME II), and structural enablers (PLI/SPMEPCI local-content rules)—as closer to their economic realities than Western models, particularly for dominant two- and three-wheeler segments. The newly launched EMBRACE platform aims to institutionalize India-Africa cooperation on policy sequencing, technology transfer, blended financing, and supply chain integration, leveraging Africa's critical mineral resources (manganese, rare earths, lithium) alongside India's downstream processing capabilities to reduce China dependence.
中文摘要
印度十年的電動車普及經驗，透過協調的財政激勵措施、產能掛鉤計劃，以及跨部門政策協調一致性（涵蓋運輸、工業、電力和金融等領域），為非洲國家提供了一個可直接應用的藍圖。非洲利益相關者認為，印度採用的循序漸進方法——平衡需求拉動型激勵（FAME I）、供應推動型生產計劃（FAME II），以及結構性基礎設施（如PLI/SPMEPCI的在地內容規定）——比西方模式更貼近其經濟現實，特別是針對佔主導地位的兩輪和三輪車市場。新啟動的EMBRACE平台旨在制度化印度與非洲在政策順序規劃、技術轉移、混合融資和供應鏈整合方面的合作，利用非洲的關鍵礦產資源（錳、稀土、鋰），結合印度的下游加工能力，以降低對中國的依賴。
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