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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…
Senegalese Engineering Students Fight Virus With Inventions
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Senegalese engineering students are throwing themselves at the COVID-19 problem with inventions such as automatic sanitizer dispensers and medical robots.
Young innovators from a top engineering school in the…
Tunisian ‘Robocop’ Enforces COVID-19 Lockdown
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Tunisia’s Interior Ministry deployed a police robot to patrol the streets of the capital and enforce a lockdown imposed in March 2020 to help the country battle the spread of COVID-19.
Known as PGuard, the…
Again, Horses Trot Through Central African Republic
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A chestnut horse appears on a dusty Bangui street, trotting among the bashed-up cars, motorbike taxis and crumbling buildings. The rider is a well-known figure in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR):…