Liberia

ADF STAFF To get a picture of COVID-19’s impact on Zambia, epidemiologist Dr. Lawrence Mwananyanda went to the morgue in the capital, Lusaka. There, he tested more than 1,100 bodies over the course of three COVID-19 waves in 2020 and…

ADF STAFF Kenyan journalist Bonface Otieno visited China in 2017 as part of a program intended to expose African journalists to Chinese culture and, more important, to the Chinese style of journalism. Otieno, a reporter at Business…

ADF STAFF In Frederick Forsyth’s 1974 novel, “The Dogs of War,” a band of mercenaries slips into a small, fictional African nation at the direction of a Western tycoon bent on deposing the nation’s dictator to exploit valuable platinum.…

ADF STAFF Patrick Gono has eye-popping talent with a paintbrush, and he is using the skill for an important cause. In October, Gono, a self-taught Liberian artist, completed four vivid murals in West Point township in Monrovia as a…

ADF STAFF The city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, dangles from the mainland on a tiny peninsula. The city, the second largest in the nation, has nearly 120,000 residents and is a commercial center. Its harbor is the terminus of the…