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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…
Togo First to End Sleeping Sickness as Public Health Problem
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Togo has received validation from the World Health Organization (WHO) for having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, or “sleeping sickness,” as a public health problem, becoming the first African country…
Nigeria’s Nollywood Creatively Copes With Virus Crisis
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
As COVID-19 closed businesses around the world and forced billions to stay home, Nigerian director Obi Emelonye came up with an innovative way to keep filming.
Inspired by his wife’s teleconferencing calls from…
Cassava Gets New Use in Zambia: Hand Sanitizer
THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
To deal with drier conditions, Zambian farmer Pamela Nyirenda in 2019 shifted to growing drought-hardy cassava, among other new water-sipping crops such as groundnuts and cowpeas.
But in 2020 her cassava…