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BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Fifteen-year-old Divina Maloum of Cameroon has won a children’s international peace prize for her work with young people who have suffered extremist violence, particularly in the north of her country. The…

ADF  STAFF Africa is on the verge of being declared polio-free after three years without any recorded cases of the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) said in August 2019 that Nigeria had marked three years without a wild…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Black Africans are at a disadvantage when it comes to drug treatments because they represent only 2% of the genetic samples used for pharmaceutical research. A new Nigeria-based genomics company wants to change…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Queues have formed outside banks in Zimbabwe as people hope to get hold of the country’s first Zimbabwe dollar notes issued since 2009. The currency was scrapped a decade ago because hyperinflation caused…

ADF STAFF The Kingdom of Axum, also known as Aksum, was the first to do many things in Sub-Saharan Africa. It was the first kingdom to mint its own coins. It created its own written language, called Ge’ez, which still is in use in…

CLUES This area has 18 lakes of various sizes, depths and colors.  These permanent lakes in a desert result from an aquifer and a complex hydrological system that is not fully understood. Some of the lakes have blue, green or…

ADF STAFF Cyber security experts say Africa’s top smartphone brand has sold tens of thousands of phones loaded with malicious software. The phones drain users’ data, sign them up for subscription services without their knowledge, and…

ADF STAFF A woman prayed in the rubble of a mosque on the beach at Jamestown, Ghana. Nearby, despondent men sifted through the wreckage of the historic fishing community, looking for anything they could salvage from their homes and…

ADF STAFF For more than a decade, the terror group al-Shabaab has used the abduction and recruitment of thousands of children in Somalia to fuel its deadly insurgency. It happened again in what has recently become an epicenter of…

ADF STAFF When it comes to testing people for COVID-19, speedy results have become a key element in preventing the spread of the disease. In Ghana, that means samples frequently take to the air. Since 2019, the medical delivery…