Health specialists, researchers, advocacy leaders and other stakeholders from across Africa and beyond gathered in Abuja on Thursday for the inaugural Dementia Africa Conference 2026, where a 10-year strategy was unveiled to reposition dementia as a continental public health priority. The conference, themed “The State of Dementia in Africa: From a Hidden Crisis to an African Continental Health Priority”, called for concrete and measurable steps to address the growing challenge of dementia across the continent. Chairman of the conference, Amb. Stephen Ben-Joel, in his opening address, said Africa’s changing demographic profile...