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ADF STAFF Russian Wagner Group mercenaries have been abusing and killing civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2019, according to a recent report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). The United Nations and several…

ADF STAFF Brando Brayend Tewuh, a 29-year-old Indonesian crew member aboard a Chinese fishing vessel, was so tired of being beaten and starved that he and three other crew members jumped from the trawler off the coast of Somalia in…

ADF STAFF More than two years after the first COVID-19 case was reported in Angola, officials still are battling misinformation about a disease that has killed 1,900 people in the country. Some people adhere to the notion that…

ADF STAFF Across Africa, nearly 11 million people have recovered from COVID-19 infections, but new research suggests that less than one-third of those people may have fully recovered, with the rest at risk of the mix of health problems…

ADF STAFF A surge of COVID-19 infections in South Africa has led some experts to declare that the country has entered its fifth wave of the pandemic as May began. The country is experiencing its highest rate of new cases in three…

ADF STAFF Public health experts are tracking the spread of two new sublineages of COVID-19’s omicron variant and are growing concerned that the BA.4 and BA.5 infections might spread despite established immunity. The sublineages are…

ADF STAFF In a matter of months, Mali’s relationship with much of the outside world has deteriorated profoundly, while Russia is trying to capitalize on a power vacuum it is helping to create. Experts say it’s all part of the…

ADF STAFF As the bloody rivalry between two large terror groups continues to destroy countless lives in northeast Nigeria, both sides are experiencing another kind of loss — desertions. In recent months, thousands of fighters from…

ADF STAFF A new study identifies West Africa as one of the world’s most affected regions by labor abuse on vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Conducted by the Stanford University Center for Ocean…

ADF STAFF A newly created open-source website called “All Eyes on Wagner” tracks the activities of the mercenaries working for Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa and beyond. The site documents Wagner Group human rights abuses based on…