Heads of State and Government

The African Leaders Malaria Alliance is a groundbreaking coalition of African Union Heads of State and Government working to eliminate malaria by 2030. ALMA continues to rely on the visionary leadership of African Heads of State and Government to lead Africa’s health development agenda.

ALMA engages with Heads of State and Government through biannual African Union forums to keep malaria high on the regional agenda.

President Umaro Sissoco Embaló’s priority agenda

His Excellency President Umaro Sissoco Embaló is the current chair of ALMA and assumed the role in September 2022.

Previous chairs of ALMA

Since our formation in 2009, a sitting African Union Head of State or Government has chaired ALMA.

ALMA documents shared with Heads of State and Government

Since 2018, ALMA has disseminated the Malaria Progress Report at the African Union Summit, along with the ALMA Scorecard for Accountability and Action to all Heads of State and Government as part of the official summit documentation. The sitting ALMA Chair briefs the AU Heads of State and Government during the African Union summit on the progress and bottlenecks in malaria control and elimination on the content.

African Union Malaria Progress Reports

Since 2018, ALMA has disseminated the Malaria Progress Report at the African Union Summit, along with the ALMA Scorecard for Accountability and Action to all Heads of State and Government as part of the official summit documentation.

ALMA Scorecard for Accountability and Action

Tracking priority malaria, RMNCAH and NTD indicators at a national level and allows comparisons between countries.

List of ALMA scorecards, Africa summary reports and country-specific reports

View all ALMA scorecards, Africa summary reports and country-specific reports since 2010.

African Union political commitments to defeat malaria

Since the Abuja Declaration on Roll Back Malaria in 2000, African Union member states have committed, at the highest political level, to defeat malaria as a public health threat on the continent. The 2000 Abuja commitments to Roll Back Malaria were renewed in the: