Radar System Boosts Efforts to Protect Congo Rainforest
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Home to the second-largest rainforest in the world, the Congo Basin plays a crucial role in the world’s biodiversity, water quality and in regulating the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
All of those benefits are…
Nigerien Soldiers Practice Lifesaving Medical Skills
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For Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) Soldiers operating in remote regions of the country, first aid training can be the difference between life and death.
A United States-led training event helped give Nigerien forces the skills…
Zimbabwean Coal Plant Draws Criticism
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Experts are worried that a planned $3 billion coal plant in Zimbabwe will increase pollution and plunge the country further into debt.
The plant is to be built in the northern Zimbabwe town of Sengwa, near Lake Kariba, the…
Field Hospital Helps Nigeria Fight COVID-19
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The U.S. has donated a $1.3 million field hospital to bolster Nigeria’s battle against COVID-19.
Located at the Federal Medical Center in Abuja, the field hospital includes four negative-pressure isolation facilities that…
WHO Team Narrows Virus Source, But Work Remains
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World Health Organization (WHO) investigators have ended their four-week trip to Wuhan, China, seeking the roots of the COVID-19 pandemic and have given some insights into what they discovered.
After staying tight-lipped…
Global Praise for Rwanda’s COVID Response
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As another wave of COVID-19 with new strains spreads rapidly, African countries have had varying degrees of success combating the pandemic.
One stands apart from the rest.
Rwanda ranked first in Africa and sixth in the…
Kenya Eases Travel With Digital Platform
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Kenya’s government has launched a digital platform that can quickly verify COVID-19 test results of people traveling into and out of the country, a move meant to ease travel hassles and reduce the chances of spreading the virus…
Virus Variants Complicate Africa’s Vaccine Rollout
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As vaccines for COVID-19 roll out across Africa and around the world, medical experts continue to play cat and mouse with new variants of the virus.
“We are experiencing science in real time,” Dr. Kerrin Begg, a public…
Illegal Fishing Plays Role in International Smuggling
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Vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing are being used for more in Africa than removing tons of fish from already depleted fish stocks and depriving hundreds of thousands of people of their…
Kenyan Poacher Charged with Trafficking Ivory, Rhino Horn
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A notorious ivory and rhino horn poacher known as Mansour awaits trial in United States federal court after his arrest in July 2020 by Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
Mansour, whose real name is Abubakar…