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ADF STAFF Running from Mombasa to Nairobi, Kenya’s controversial Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has come to represent everything that can go wrong with African nations’ complex and sometimes covert financial ties with China. As African…

ADF STAFF With Africa’s COVID-19 caseload rising and national health systems feeling the pressure, more than a dozen nations have signed on with a large drug trial searching for a way to treat mild to moderate COVID-19 cases with…

ADF STAFF Several months before the first news of COVID-19 broke, Peter Cunliffe-Jones delivered the keynote speech at the 2019 Global Fact-Checking Summit in Cape Town, South Africa. “Fighting misinformation is like fighting a…

ADF STAFF For many students in Sub-Saharan Africa, learning remotely simply is not possible. About one-third of the population doesn’t have access to a suitable internet connection, according to the World Bank. The situation agonizes…

ADF STAFF Armed members of Benin’s Navy have arrested an industrial trawler for illegally fishing in an area reserved for artisanal fishermen. Sea Shepherd Global, which works with several West African countries to eradicate illegal,…

ADF STAFF With shots ringing out in the dead of night, a group of villagers and refugees were running away from a camp for displaced people when they saw a young girl in pain on the ground. They asked her to join them. She refused.…

ADF STAFF Kenya’s National Border Protection Unit got a boost, thanks to a donation of vehicles, equipment and training facilities by U.S. Africa Command. The recent $1.17 million donation included 35 new Toyota Land Cruisers, 23 sets…

ADF STAFF Before COVID-19 hit Sub-Saharan Africa in late February, Dr. John Nkengasong arranged an emergency meeting of health ministers in Ethiopia. “I have never been this serious in my life,” the director of the Africa Centres for…

ADF STAFF The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently declared an end to the Ebola outbreak in Equateur province, ending a monthslong effort to get it under control. Public health experts say the successful campaign offers…

ADF STAFF As African nations prepare for a vaccine against the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials across the continent are looking at ways to store, transport and distribute a vaccine that requires an unbroken chain of ultra-low…