Ethiopia

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 Through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China has placed tens of thousands of workers in Africa to build Chinese-financed BRI infrastructure projects across the continent. Now, in an effort to protect its workers, China…

ADF STAFF When protests in South Africa boiled over into violence and looting in July, much of the energy driving the violence came from social media. Across the continent, social media has become a mechanism for amplifying already…

ADF STAFF Africa’s public health leaders are expanding their continentwide effort to test people for COVID-19 exposure to track the movement and evolution of the virus. Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease…

ADF STAFF Based in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Dr. John Nkengasong works near one of the world’s deadliest conflicts. Despite a national state of emergency, the fighting has not impacted the day-to-day operations of the Africa…

ADF STAFF Ethiopia’s military conflict with its regional state of Tigray has been expanding beyond the mountainous northern province for months. More recently, the number of groups opposing the federal government has expanded as well.…

ADF STAFF When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, lawyer David Ngwerume didn’t just sit around waiting for the courthouse to reopen. He was inspired to create art with a message of hope and unity, as he and fellow Zimbabweans adhered to…

ADF STAFF Through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China has loaned billions of dollars to African nations for a variety of major infrastructure projects, from highways and ports to power plants and government buildings. Although…

ADF STAFF Amid a recent surge of terrorism in Somalia and the continued lack of adequate state security forces, the need for peacekeepers remains high. Time is running out, however, on the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM),…

ADF STAFF Standing on the precipice of all-out civil war, Ethiopia shows no sign of turning around. Instead, the conflict has drawn in all of the country’s 10 separate ethnic regions. What started as a political dispute in the…