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ADF STAFF Morocco and the U.S. have signed a 10-year deal that will support the nations’ shared military goals. The accord “serves as a road map for defense cooperation and aims to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two…

ADF STAFF The fishing nets hauled aboard a Chinese trawler swelled with sardinella, a tiny silver fish that is a source of food and income in Ghana. Some of the catch was dead and thrown overboard, and much of it was transferred from…

ADF STAFF An insurgency in Ghana’s Volta region started in early September with a declaration of sovereignty and a manhunt by regional police for whoever erected makeshift signs reading, “Welcome to Western Togoland.” Since then, the…

ADF STAFF Months before COVID-19 emerged, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 2020 would be the Year of the Nurse. The title couldn’t be more appropriate. Around the globe, nurses battle COVID-19 daily and bear the…

ADF STAFF The outbreak of COVID-19 in Zambia earlier this year meant locking down businesses and quarantining people to stop the spread of the respiratory disease. For one group of Zambians, however, the quarantine ended in October,…

ADF STAFF The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated 200 ventilators to Kenya as the country struggles to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases. The U.S.-produced ventilators, which can offer life-extending support…

ADF STAFF On the list of countries hardest hit by COVID-19, no African nation breaks the top 10. South Africa, the continent’s hardest-hit nation, is 11th in the world. Below that lie Morocco (30th), Ethiopia (50th), and Nigeria…

ADF STAFF Nigeria has developed a new rapid test designed to detect COVID-19 more quickly and for less cost than existing tests. The new test comes as mask-wearing and social distancing have faded in the streets of Nigeria’s biggest…

ADF STAFF In the farming communities of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, Boko Haram extremists have spent years raiding farms, stealing livestock and driving farmers off their land. Now, those same farmers can return to their work…

ADF STAFF The Chinese government recently imposed a strict 10-year fishing ban on the 6,300-kilometer-long Yangtze River to preserve native fish populations. The move was made in response to a significant drop in China’s domestic…