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ADF STAFF Boko Haram has destroyed more than 5,000 classrooms in northeast Nigeria since launching its insurgency in 2009. It’s one part of an overarching strategy to force children to join extremist terror groups in the Lake Chad Basin…

ADF STAFF Young people have been among the hardest hit by the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, suffering education and training disruptions, losing sources of income, and dealing with food insecurity. Of the estimated 1.4…

ADF STAFF It was 2 a.m. on a Saturday when the calm of night in a Burkinabe village was interrupted by the sound of motorcycles, then gunshots. Terrorists opened fire on residents of the gold-mining village of Solhan on June 5, 2021.…

ADF STAFF Feeling pressure to make money, Dayo Sadiq decided to migrate from her home in Benin City, Nigeria, to Mali. She had been promised a job making up to $360 a month to clean houses. Like many other Nigerian women from Edo State,…

ADF STAFF When the COVID-19 pandemic first closed schools throughout Malawi in March 2020, Patricia Siyati and her friends felt like they were on holiday. But the pandemic changed everything. Patricia’s school didn’t reopen for…

ADF STAFF When COVID-19 hit Uganda in March 2020, teacher Ocwee Irene Trends knew she had to take drastic action. The country entered into a strict lockdown and closed all the schools. Ocwee had a feeling it would be a long time…

ADF STAFF After two years of COVID-19, the disease severity is substantially lower among children and adolescents, compared with adults, scientific studies have reported. Not so in Africa. A new multicountry study in Africa found…

ADF STAFF From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists stated that one way to defeat the virus would be to achieve herd immunity. Now many are questioning whether COVID herd immunity is even possible. The concept of herd…