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ADF STAFF Many rural West African communities rely on donkeys as a source of labor, transport and income. Traditional Chinese medicine values donkeys for their skins. In recent years, China has been unable to meet its high demand for…

ADF STAFF To help authorities detect illegal fishing, a new study combined the identities of 35,000 vessels with a decade of GPS data to offer a worldwide assessment of fishing compliance, fishing by foreign-owned trawlers and reflagging…

ADF STAFF China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promised huge investments in ports throughout the world. But the environmental and human cost of these projects are only beginning to be understood, according to new reporting.…

ADF STAFF Bright Tsai Kweku knows well the perils of working on board a Chinese-owned fishing vessel in Ghana. He said he witnessed one crew member die of cholera because the Chinese crew would not take him to shore for treatment. He…

ADF STAFF With 1 billion users, TikTok has become one of the fastest growing apps in the world. It holds nearly 32% of the social media market in Nigeria and has doubled its users in South Africa to about 10 million. But cybersecurity…

ADF STAFF AsRussian armored personnel carriers and tanks trundled into Ukraine carrying more than 100,000 conscripts, Sudanese Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, was meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in…

ADF STAFF A year after Benin, Ghana and Togo reaffirmed their willingness to work together to reduce illegal fishing, some fishermen in the region say its badly depleted fish stocks show signs of improvement. Besides at-sea patrols,…

ADF STAFF To help Benin combat piracy and other maritime crimes in the Gulf of Guinea, the U.S. government delivered a new patrol vessel to the country in December. The U.S. also helped build a new boathouse, maintenance shop and…

ADF STAFF As it struggles with rising inflation and continuing drought, Djibouti has become the latest country to suspend its payments on Chinese debt. Djibouti’s decision to withhold repayment makes it the second African nation after…

ADF STAFF In early 2021, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially opened the country’s National Data Center, proclaiming the Chinese-built data hub key to the country’s economic advancement. The center compiles information from…