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In Rwanda, breeding pigs can be a headache for smallholders who often have to travel several kilometres to hire a male stud or collect pig semen. But a pilot project is changing things, delivering swine semen by drone to farms. Zipline, the company behind the project has been operating it since the beginning of this year working with RAB, the Rwandan Agriculture and… Read More

Zambia should soon access a 1.3 billion dollars IMF-support fund. The bailout was validated just after the southern African nation’s creditors agreed to provide him debt relief. The committee of creditors co-chaired by China and France announced on Saturday they were ready to negotiate the restructuration of Lusaka’s crushing debt load. IMF’s support plan had been signed in December 2021 but was… Read More

Voters in the Republic of Congo were voting Sunday to choose 50 candidates in 25 constituencies in the second round of legislative elections. Opposition groups in the country, which is also known as Congo-Brazzaville, had denounced the results of the first round as fraudulent. The Congolese Labour Party (PCT) of President Denis Sassou Nguesso won the first round of voting on… Read More

Senegalese voted this Sunday to elect the country’s deputies. These elections stand as a decisive test for opposition parties trying to tackle the ruling party’s influence ahead of the presidential election in 2024. Many fear President Macky Sall may seek a third term. “It’s is the destiny of our people that is at stake today with these legislative elections. It is extraordinary.… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago A Japanese man has been detained in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon, an official at Japan’s embassy confirmed Sunday, the latest foreigner ensnared in the junta-ruled nation. A military coup last year sparked rolling protests and a deadly response from the junta, with more than 2,000 people killed and at least 14,000 arrested, according to a… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago The fast-moving McKinney fire, which started Friday, went from charring just over 1 square mile (1 square kilometer) to scorching as much as 62 square miles (160 square kilometers) according to fire officials. The fire burned down at least a dozen residences and wildlife was seen fleeing the area to avoid the flames. “It’s continuing… Read More

For his 23rd anniversary as king of Morocco, Mohamed VI reached out for reconciliation with Algeria. Relations between the two countries have been strained for several months over the disputed territory of Western Sahara. “I would like to stress once again that the borders that separate the Moroccan and Algerian peoples will never be barriers that prevent their interaction and… Read More

Loijipu is a highly protected rhino calf living at the Sera Wildlife Conservancy, Northern Kenya. His primary caregiver is Salome Lemalasia who has been working as a community ranger since 2015. Although she wasn’t at ease around him when she met him at first, today, the relationship between them is special: _”__I used to be afraid of him when I left him,… Read More

Last updated: 19 hours ago Galyna Kios had been sheltering with family and neighbours in her gloomy basement, cooking on a makeshift wood-fired stove, when the Russians came. The troops had been biding their time outside Mala Rogan, 32 kilometres (20 miles) from Ukraine’s northeast border with Russia, but decided to take the village two weeks into the war. Now… Read More

At the Fann Hospital in Dakar, a special department provides an opioid substitution therapy programme to drug addicts. Commonly called CEPIAD it is a drop-in clinic aiming to reduce the spread of HIV, as opioids are pain-relieving drugs often linked to needle sharing and unprotected sex both high-risk factors for HIV. 250 people are currently following the treatment. “Methadone is a medicine that… Read More