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Sudanese Doctors Fight COVID From Abroad
ADF STAFF
What started as a small idea between two doctors based in the United States who wanted to help their native Sudan respond to COVID-19 has grown into something much larger.
Dr. Reem Ahmed of Emory University in Georgia and…
‘Seedballs’ Give Kenya’s Forests a Helping Hand
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
The round black pellets easily could be mistaken for animal dung. But they contain acacia seeds that help regrow Kenya’s depleted forests.
Mara Elephant Project rangers have scattered 22,000 “seedballs” around an…
Art of Beekeeping Spreads in Côte d’Ivoire
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Night has just fallen in central Côte d’Ivoire, and the hour has come for two men, venturing forth in protective suits, veils and gloves, to collect honey from their bees.
The art of beekeeping has spread swiftly…
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…