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Deep-freeze Case Could Help Transport Vaccines in Africa
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A South African company wants to help solve the logistical challenge of keeping COVID-19 vaccinations at the extremely low temperatures necessary as they are shipped across the continent.
Johannesburg-based…
Virus Hunters Scour Gabonese Forest For Next Threat
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Six men in yellow biohazard suits walk in suffocating heat toward a cave in the heart of the Gabonese jungle. Their quest: to unlock new knowledge on how pathogens like COVID-19 leap the species barrier to humans.…
Cameroonian Activists Celebrate End to Toy Weapon Gifts
VOICE OF AMERICA
Cameroonian rights groups and activists are gratified that for the first time since 2016, parents no longer give children and teenagers toy guns as gifts during end-of-year feasts.
In 2016, rights groups launched a…
App Helps Ghana’s Fishermen Fight Illegal Trawlers
ADF STAFF
Enraged that foreign trawlers continuously deprive them of food and income, artisanal fishermen in Ghana are using a new smartphone app to detect and report illegal fishing.
The app is called Dase, meaning “evidence” in…
Namibia Reduces Rhino Poaching by 63%
REUTERS
Rhino poaching fell 63% year-on-year in Namibia due to intensified intelligence operations and tougher sentences and fines for poachers.
Elephant poaching also decreased, with two incidents reported as of August 2020 compared…
AU Names New Health Leadership Program for Kofi Annan
AFRICAN UNION
The African Union has announced a new initiative that will help the continent better meet the health challenges of the future.
The Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Programme is a new AU effort under the auspices of…