Browsing: Africa Today

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Côte d’Ivoire, which has lost nearly all its forests in the past half century, has launched a major…

ADF STAFF The fight against Boko Haram and other extremist groups has taken a mental toll on members of Nigeria’s…

ADF STAFF Burkina Faso has opened its first pharmaceutical manufacturing plant to make low-cost generic drugs and ensure the uninterrupted…

VOICE OF AMERICA Five Southern African countries, which have more than half the continent’s elephants, conducted the first aerial census…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE In Côte d’Ivoire, a new “Superphone” that uses a voice assistant to respond to commands in a local…

ADF STAFF Senegalese artist Fally Sene Sow took inspiration from the depressing days of the COVID-19 pandemic to build a…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Hanganani Gideon Dube, 75, has walked with a slight limp and his speech has been labored since he…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The hospital room is air-cooled to feel like a pangolin’s burrow. The patient, Lumbi, is syringe-fed with a…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Construction workers in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, are building a barrier around a primary forest in the center of…

ADF STAFF Diébédo Francis Kéré of Burkina Faso has won the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize, making him the first African…