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VOICE OF AMERICA The World Health Organization says East Africa has the highest rate of cervical cancer in the world. Kenya has begun a mass vaccination of girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can lead to cervical cancer.…

VOICE OF AMERICA Meat may be meeting its match, as more and more South Africans are experimenting with vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. Veganism, which entails cutting out all meat and animal-derived products, such as dairy, eggs and…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE In a humming factory in Kenya’s highlands, tea is hand-plucked from the fields, cured and shredded into the fine leaves that have sated drinkers from London to Lahore for generations. But Kenya’s prized black tea…

VOICE OF AMERICA British companies have made bigger profits investing in Africa than in any other region of the world, according to an international report. The Overseas Development Institute urges companies to seek profits on the…

World Bank Making use of vast energy potential such as solar, wind and geothermal, and a grid that is nearly 100% supplied by renewable sources, Ethiopia is undertaking an ambitious project to achieve universal electricity access by…

ADF STAFF The Sultanate of Damagaram was never one of Africa’s biggest empires. In what is now Niger, at its most expansive it was about 70,000 square kilometers — about the same size as modern-day Sierra Leone.  But as a commercial…