Growth & Progress

ADF Staff In 2020, John Oroko of Kenya witnessed the devastation wrought by desert locusts. It was a call to action. His agricultural company, Selina Wamucii, launched a mobile app called Kuzi that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Women in Uganda are taking on a new role, as drivers for an all-female ride-hailing service, Diva Taxi.   The taxi service, dreamed up by a local woman who lost her logistics job at the start of the COVID-19…

VOICE OF AMERICA In Ghana and elsewhere in West Africa, organic food is growing in popularity. But organic produce is not easily regulated, and consumers are paying extra for unverified claims. Farmers across the region have created…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Chad is repaying Angola a debt of $100 million with cattle, Angola’s state-run newspaper has reported. The unusual agreement is seen as creating a win-win situation for both nations — Chad is short of cash…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A supercomputer is boosting efforts in East Africa to control locust outbreaks that raise what the United Nations food agency calls “an unprecedented threat” to the region’s food security. The computer, a donation…

BBB NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Rwanda, the country of a thousand hills, was the first in the world to embrace a commercial delivery service by drone aircraft when the company Zipline began flying blood in 2016. Rwandan President Paul Kagame…