Rather than formal health systems, it was local ingenuity that was crucial in ending the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The disease was unprecedented. It was unknown in the region until December 2013. And yet the Ebola epidemic was overcome in a matter of...
Did you know that countries like Japan, New Zealand, and Germany oppose Genetically Modified Foods, also identified as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)? In general the European Union, a great buyer of Africa’s organic food, opposes Genetically Modified Foods. ...
In March the President of the electoral commission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mr. Cornielle Nangaa, was in Washington, D.C. to meet with partners and share with them the status of the electoral process in his country. The presidential election, one...