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ADF STAFF The United States has provided more than $1.6 billion in assistance for Sudan over the past 20 years, touching nearly every aspect of life in a country engaged in profound transition. The U.S. Agency for International…

ADF STAFF As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in South Sudan, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated $4.5 million to help the young country fight the spread of the potentially fatal respiratory disease. The…

ADF STAFF If there is a silver lining to the dark cloud of COVID-19, it may be found among the test tubes and microscopes of Africa’s research laboratories. From Dakar to Cape Town to Addis Ababa, the global pandemic has inspired an…

ADF STAFF The U.S. government recently donated critical medical supplies and personal protective equipment to a COVID-19 treatment center in Ghana. The treatment facility is run by the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) in Accra, the country’s…

ADF STAFF Violence continues to plague the Ituri province in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as a wave of deadly attacks in July has been attributed to the Cooperative for the Development of the…

ADF STAFF As troops loyal to Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar retreated from the southern outskirts of Tripoli recently, they left behind booby-trapped land mines to maim and kill returning residents. Many of the mines were Russian- or…

ADF STAFF The U.S. helped Chad’s fight against extremists in the Lake Chad region by donating $8.5 million in materiel to the country’s Special Anti-Terrorism Group (SATG), which is fighting alongside troops from neighboring countries as…

ADF STAFF As part of its support for Chad’s continued fight against COVID-19, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) donated two new ambulances to Chad’s Centre for Coordination of Operations of Airports Sanitary Evacuations (CCOES). The…

ADF STAFF Praise has come from around the world for Rwanda’s successful response to COVID-19, which is highlighted by high-tech interventions. The country has had five deaths among 1,689 recorded cases of COVID-19 as of July 22,…

ADF STAFF Glimmers of hope in the battle against COVID-19 have emerged in the past month, as a clinical trial at the United Kingdom’s University of Oxford showed that a low-cost steroid can be used to improve the mortality rates of…