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ADF STAFF The U.S. has announced a $708 million investment plan to help South African pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare produce more than 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for African nations by the end of 2022. The financing…

ADF STAFF Africa reported 1 million new COVID-19 cases in the past month — the fastest increase in cases since the pandemic began and one driven largely by the Delta variant. Deaths have also spiked, rising by 40% in five weeks to…

ADF STAFF Food security was a major problem in Africa before COVID-19 struck, with the United Nations estimating that nearly 282 million people on the continent were malnourished in 2020. But the pandemic has inflated costs for…

ADF STAFF As Mozambique struggled to cope with a third wave of COVID-19 infections, the U.S. stepped up in early July, donating $600,000 worth of medical equipment and funding to hire more nurses and physicians to staff coronavirus…

ADF STAFF Fueled by the Delta variant, the deadly third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa has been peaking in July. But there is new hope in the continent’s hardest-hit country, as the vaccine campaign finally begins to…

ADF STAFF Although the kidnapping of 276 students from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok led to global outrage, the shocking practice continues. Schoolchildren across northern Nigeria have become pawns in a thriving…

ADF STAFF Companies operating in Ghana’s trawl fishing industry must reapply for fishing licenses to continue working in the country’s waters. Ghana’s Fisheries Commission gave the notice after the country was issued a second yellow…

ADF STAFF A wave of recent attacks by Islamist terrorists in northern Côte d’Ivoire indicate that the country’s worst fears are coming true: The bloody Sahel conflict is spreading to West Africa’s coastal states. Militants have…

ADF STAFF Across the Africa, countries are building unique vaccination strategies to meet their needs. Angola has 21 mass COVID-19 vaccination centers in all 18 of its provinces; each center is capable of vaccinating 5,000 people per…

ADF STAFF Even without adequate access to COVD-19 vaccines, there are ways African nations can mitigate the pandemic’s spread. Beyond lockdowns, quarantines, mask wearing, social distancing and other preventive measures, the key to…