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ADF STAFF The water level behind the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) rose again in July, and tensions between Ethiopia and its downstream neighbors rose along with it. Ethiopia announced on July 20 that it had completed the…

ADF STAFF A new contest is calling on coders to take on illegal fishing. The U.S. Department of Defense and nongovernmental organization Global Fishing Watch recently launched the xView3 AI contest for software engineers who can use…

ADF STAFF Dr. Joseph Muvawala stood before Ugandan journalists on July 7 with pages full of COVID-19 case numbers and a stern message. “The lockdown,” he said, “is working.” The executive director of Uganda’s National Planning…

ADF STAFF The island nation of Seychelles became the world’s first country to issue a report on the management of its fisheries sector through the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) in April. Established in 2017, FiTI aims to…

ADF STAFF U.S. military trainers recently certified a dozen members of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and Kenyan Rapid Response Unit (RRU) as specialists in survival, evasion, resistance and escape (SERE) skills. The 12-week course…

ADF STAFF Standing on the precipice of all-out civil war, Ethiopia shows no sign of turning around. Instead, the conflict has drawn in all of the country’s 10 separate ethnic regions. What started as a political dispute in the…

ADF STAFF Although COVID-19 has spared no group, preteen children remain among the least affected by the respiratory disease, a factor that has South Africa rethinking its approach to in-person schooling. UNICEF estimates that 40% of…

ADF STAFF Whenever disaster strikes, the lure of easy money through scams, frauds and schemes is sure to follow. The COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception in South Africa, and some fear rising use of the internet and social media…

ADF STAFF The U.S. government donated 176 tablet and 53 laptop computers and 250 remote temperature-monitoring devices to Namibia as the nation struggled to kick-start its COVID-19 vaccination campaign amid rising mortality rates. The…

ADF STAFF As COVID-19’s delta variant sweeps across Africa, critically ill patients who end up in the hospital face a high chance of dying as overwhelmed health systems struggle to provide enough oxygen and intensive care beds. A…