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ADF STAFF For nearly two years since it was discovered, COVID-19 has dominated the attention of health providers around the globe. It has diverted resources and funds from other health priorities. Because of the pandemic, fewer people…

ADF STAFF Africa’s current wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the delta variant is declining, but public health experts remain vigilant against the emergence of new variants that could drive a new wave of infections and deaths.…

ADF STAFF Tanzanian authorities are focused on eliminating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and stimulating the country’s “blue economy,” which includes the country’s fisheries, tourism and aquaculture. Tanzanian…

ADF STAFF A Russian-language tablet computer discovered in an area south of Tripoli gives clues to the scale and scope of the Wagner Group’s mercenary operation in Libya. The tablet was discovered after troops loyal to Field Marshal…

ADF STAFF The kidnappers wore masks and fired guns randomly while blocking the Kaduna-Abuja road, a major highway in Nigeria, on the afternoon of September 14. In what has become an all-too-familiar scene in a country wracked with…

ADF STAFF Kenyan mathematician Dr. Shem Otoi Sam has become his country’s oracle of COVID-19. Using a predictive model he developed, Sam found a way to forecast the rise and fall of infection waves, making him a kind of weatherman for…

ADF STAFF The African Development Bank (AfDB) has donated two vehicles to support South Sudan’s COVID-19 mitigation efforts. Donated to the Ministry of Health through the World Health Organization (WHO), the cars will help public…

ADF STAFF Africa appears to be on the down slope of its most recent wave of COVID-19 infections, according to a variety of health experts. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Africa regional…

ADF STAFF Tanzania is learning how hard it is to get its citizens to take the pandemic seriously after the country’s late president was its most prominent COVID-19 denier. When President John Magufuli’s death was announced March 17,…

ADF STAFF The United States government has given Zambia an additional $6.7 million to boost the country’s COVID-19 response. The funds will help the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) work with the Ministry of Health to…