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ADF STAFF Health experts are cheering the potential of an antiviral pill after studies show it offers protection against COVID-19 after a patient is infected. American pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) announced…

ADF STAFF More than 8 million South Africans live with HIV-compromised immune systems, a situation that makes them vulnerable to infection by COVID-19 and — if they become infected — potential sources of new variants as their bodies…

ADF STAFF Facing severe oxygen shortages in late September, Somalia opened its first oxygen plant at a hospital in Mogadishu. The plant is expected to produce 1,000 cylinders of oxygen per day. It was installed at Banadir…

U.S. Africa Command Staff COVID-19 has slowed global commerce, but it has not stopped criminals intent on stealing Africa’s natural wealth. In fact, some poachers, loggers and maritime criminals see the virus as an opportunity. They…

Dr. Monica Juma is Kenya’s cabinet secretary for defence. She delivered this message to Kenyan troops serving in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on October 14, 2020, in commemoration of Kenya Defence Forces Day. Her…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Six men in yellow biohazard suits walk in suffocating heat toward a cave in the heart of the Gabonese jungle. Their quest: to unlock new knowledge on how pathogens like COVID-19 leap the species barrier to humans.…

VOICE OF AMERICA Cameroonian rights groups and activists are gratified that for the first time since 2016, parents no longer give children and teenagers toy guns as gifts during end-of-year feasts. In 2016, rights groups launched a…

ADF STAFF Enraged that foreign trawlers continuously deprive them of food and income, artisanal fishermen in Ghana are using a new smartphone app to detect and report illegal fishing. The app is called Dase, meaning “evidence” in…

ADF STAFF The city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, dangles from the mainland on a tiny peninsula. The city, the second largest in the nation, has nearly 120,000 residents and is a commercial center. Its harbor is the terminus of the…

ADF STAFF The Congo Basin rainforest is huge, second only to the Amazon. It sprawls across six nations, but it is shrinking. The basin is the home to countless species of plants and animals. It also is a key to the health of not just…