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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):…
Drones to be Tested in Battle Against Locust Swarms
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The United Nations is testing drones equipped with mapping sensors and atomizers to spray pesticides in parts of East Africa battling an invasion of desert locusts. Hundreds of millions of the voracious insects…
Sierra Leonean Gangster Leaves Streets for Poetry
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In his poem Rough Path, Yousef Kamara reflects on his years selling drugs and stealing as the leader of a street gang in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown.
“Like a traveller in a rough jungle/Self propelling all alone/Edging…
17 South African Black Rhinos Relocated to Malawi
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Malawi has received 17 black rhinos from South Africa under a program to replenish the species that temporarily died out in the Southern African country in the 1980s.
African Parks, a charity headed by Britain’s…