Browsing: Paths of Hope

ADF STAFF When COVID-19 hit Uganda in March 2020, teacher Ocwee Irene Trends knew she had to take drastic action.…

ADF STAFF Malawi has begun a mass distribution of mosquito nets to reach as many of the country’s 19 million…

REUTERS An adjusted version of an established drug against schistosomiasis, a tropical parasitic worm disease, has been shown to work…

ADF STAFF The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing the human species has long…

ADF STAFF Since late 2019, the Greater Horn of Africa region has been dealing with the worst desert locust invasion…

REUTERS A project in Kenya is using biogas technology to tackle two major pollution problems with one device: a machine that…

REUTERS Every night Moussa Kamara works at his bakery in Senegal, preparing hundreds of loaves. But at sunrise, instead of…

REUTERS Beneath the scorching sun that beats down on Senegal’s savanna, the verdant gardens of Ndem village are a sanctuary.…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed Court of Appeal Judge Martha Koome as the East African country’s…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed The Gambia’s elimination of trachoma as a public health…