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ADF STAFF African countries are using lessons learned from deadly Ebola outbreaks to thwart the spread of COVID-19. The coronavirus has infected nearly 4.8 million people worldwide and killed more than 316,000. But only 78,194 of…

ADF STAFF As Kenya works to secure its border and stop traffickers, it got a boost in the form of vehicle donations. The U.S. government has donated 10 Toyota Hilux pickup trucks to investigators with Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal…

ADF STAFF In the effort to stanch the spread of COVID-19 in Kenya, the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi has donated thousands of face masks to key groups needing protection from the virus as they do their essential work. On June 1, Ambassador…

REUTERS Nigeria and neighbors Benin and Niger have agreed to set up a joint border patrol force to tackle smuggling among the West African countries. Foreign ministers from the three countries met to discuss smuggling after a decision…

ADF STAFF As desert locusts spread across East Africa in February 2020, Uganda deployed 2,000 Soldiers to battle the pests. Ugandan troops used pesticide on the ground as authorities tried to secure helicopters for aerial spraying.…

U.S. Africa Command Staff The people of the Sahel are resilient. They have to be. The 5,000-kilometer-long band below the Sahara is marked by extreme beauty and a harsh climate. Farmers defy the odds to grow crops in semiarid conditions.…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari spoke on Democracy Day on June 12, 2019. Until 2018, Democracy Day, which marks the restoration of democracy in Nigeria, was observed on May 29. But Buhari has since moved recognition to June 12 to…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  |  Photos by AFP/GETTY IMAGES Fish vendor Mercy Allotey waits in Accra, Ghana, for customers to buy the freshest catch. But she says fishermen are netting less because illegal techniques and unscrupulous trawlers…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Something extraordinary lay inside the wooden drawer in an office behind Nairobi National Museum. It’s a monstrous jawbone with colossal fangs — the only known remains of a prehistoric mega-carnivore declared to be a…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE South African fashion designer Innocent Molefe was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in 2015. Three years later it developed into a multidrug-resistant strain requiring painful injections and heaps of pills. Three…