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ADF STAFF The European Union in May issued Ghana a “yellow card” after concluding that the country’s level of development and engagement against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing was inadequate. A yellow card is a…

ADF STAFF The highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 is sweeping across Africa, driving an unprecedented wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. “The speed and scale of Africa’s third wave is like nothing we have seen…

ADF STAFF When a second wave of COVID-19 hit Eswatini in January, the kingdom recorded the fourth-highest virus fatality rate in the world, according to the U.S. Embassy in Eswatini The country of about 1.1 million people reported…

ADF STAFF The COVID-19 pandemic is battering Namibia, which in recent weeks ran out of oxygen and vaccines while hospitals and mortuaries reached capacity. On July 5, Namibia got more bad news when it confirmed the presence of the…

ADF STAFF The Delta variant of COVID-19 is rapidly spreading across South Africa, prompting the government to clamp down on social activities to try to slow the virus. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the country’s health care system is…

ADF STAFF The messages come through WhatsApp from numbers in Ghana or Nigeria and carry dire warnings about Western vaccines or the international groups promoting them. The messages often get shared quickly, with falsehoods spreading…

ADF STAFF With piracy increasing in the waters of West Africa, Nigeria recently launched its Deep Blue Project, a multipronged approach to confronting piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. The $195 million project brings together a mix of…

ADF STAFF Every time the Veracruz, a 108-meter refrigerated cargo ship, crossed the sea border from Namibia to Angola, it seemed to disappear. Possibly engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, its captain simply…

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is a peacekeeping operation established at the time of South Sudan’s independence in July 2011. In January 2017, David Shearer of New Zealand became head of the mission and served for more…

ADF STAFF As he makes the steep descent to the village of Lebakeng in his six-seat Cessna single-engine airplane, pilot Grant Strugnell scans the runway for animals before landing. The short airstrip, covered in grass, weeds and…