Botswana

ADF STAFF A new twist on the omicron coronavirus variant has some researchers concerned about the next development in the global pandemic. Known as subvariant BA.2, the new version of omicron is about 1.5 times more infectious than…

ADF STAFF As a Christian pastor roamed his fields outside Nova Zambézia village in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province on December 15, insurgents surprised him and his wife. The terrorists accosted him, killed him and severed his head.…

ADF STAFF South Africa’s wave of infections from the COVID-19 omicron strain passed quicker than previous waves, without a dramatic rise in deaths, the government announced in late December. Scientists say that could be welcome news…

ADF STAFF Six new studies shows that the COVID-19 omicron variant does not attack the lungs as aggressively as previous strains did. Of six studies reviewed by British newspaper The Guardian, four were published since December 24.…

ADF STAFF When the omicron variant appeared in researcher Sikhulile Moyo’s Botswana laboratory, it become the latest contribution African scientists have made to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. A study in the British Medical Journal…

ADF STAFF When South Africa experienced a COVID-19 outbreak at a hospital in Durban in early 2020, researchers at the nearby KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) swung into action. Teams there examined…

ADF STAFF The omicron variant that struck Africa in December seems to have receded almost as quickly as it appeared in South Africa, but public health leaders warn that other countries may not have the same experience. “This is just…

ADF STAFF About three weeks after the COVID-19 omicron variant was discovered in Botswana, the U.S. government donated two coronavirus isolation facilities in the central town of Bobonong. The facilities, worth more than 2.9 million…

Story by ADF STAFF | Photos by AFP/GETTY IMAGES The global pandemic did not lock down wildlife traffickers. Authorities in Zimbabwe caught four smugglers trying to ship 26 great apes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to South…

ADF STAFF As the latest wave of COVID-19 infections subsides across Africa, governments and public health experts are asking what’s next in the continent’s response to the global pandemic. The answer is multifaceted. Here are a few of…