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Nigerian Radio Show Gives ‘Voice to the Voiceless’
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Early each morning, a crowd gathers outside Ahmad Isah’s radio studio in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, hoping to share their problems over the airwaves.
For those waiting, Isah’s Brekete (which means “very big” in…
AI Programming School Targets Farming Challenges
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Data analyst Fabrice Sonzahi enrolled in a course on artificial intelligence (AI) in Dakar, Senegal, hoping to help farmers improve crop yields in his home country of Côte d’Ivoire.
He is part of an…
Ghana Grapples With Illegal Fishing as Stocks Dive
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Fish vendor Mercy Allotey waits in Accra, Ghana, for customers to buy the freshest catch. But she says fishermen are netting less because illegal techniques and unscrupulous trawlers…
Hidden Mysteries Lie in Wait Inside Kenya’s Fossil Treasury
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Something extraordinary lay inside the wooden drawer in an office behind Nairobi National Museum. It’s a monstrous jawbone with colossal fangs — the only known remains of a prehistoric mega-carnivore declared to be a…
New TB Regimen Slashes Treatment Time in South Africa
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South African fashion designer Innocent Molefe was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in 2015. Three years later it developed into a multidrug-resistant strain requiring painful injections and heaps of pills.
Three…
Nigeria Deploys Satellite Tech to Track Oil Smugglers
From algorithms to track “dark” ships smuggling stolen crude oil to an online licensing system to undercut corruption, Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) hopes it can use new technology to tackle theft that has cost the…