Paths of Hope

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS A little-known mammal related to an elephant but as small as a mouse has been rediscovered after 50 years of obscurity. The last scientific record of the “lost species” of Somali elephant shrew was in the…

VOICE OF AMERICA Students in Malawi were out of school for six months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although most were able to study from home with internet or radio lessons, many in remote villages were left out.  Voluntary…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Quick adaptation has enabled Ethiopian Airlines to pull through tough COVID-19 restrictions and “saved the airline,” its CEO said. CEO Tewolde GebreMariam said the airline maximized freight operations due to air…

VOICE OF AMERICA Shejirina Moni sits beside her children in front of their makeshift home in Juba, South Sudan’s capital. Six of her children have died of various illnesses. She has three surviving. “The first one died at 9 months,”…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Dozens of locals line up eagerly as the train heaves to a halt at a station in a remote rural region of South Africa’s coastal Eastern Cape province. The so-called Train of Hope has come to provide COVID-19…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Scientists have discovered a microbe that protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. Team members in Kenya and the United Kingdom said the finding has “enormous potential” to control the disease.…