Angola

Fresenius Medical Care has agreed to pay $231m to resolve reports of overseas bribery. The US Department of Justice says the dialysis giant paid bribes to health and government officials in Angola and Saudi Arabia, and failed to keep accurate financial records in Angola, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Spain, Turkey, and several countries in West Africa.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has made one new and one renewed appointment to its executive board: Zsuzsanna Jakab has been named WHO regional director for Europe, while Dr Luis Gomes Sambo has been re-appointed WHO regional director for Africa. Mrs Jakab, who was previously director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, succeeds Dr Marc Danzon, who has served as European regional director for the past 10 years. Dr Sambo first took the role as regional director for Africa in 2005; before that he held a number of health-based roles in Angola, including vice-minister of health, director of health service in the Cabinda province and director of international co-operation at the ministry of health in Luanda.