Africa in Transition

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  Nadine Sunderland

  

  Meet the conservationist saving gorillas in Uganda’s ‘impenetrable forest’

  CNN

  CNN — It’s been 30 years, but Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka still remembers the first time she ever saw a mountain gorilla. It was the summer of 1994. Deep in the jungle of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the then-24-year-old student was hundreds of miles from her home in the country’s …

• Increasing the capacity for vaccines to be produced on the African continent is a good first step.

  

  Nadine Sunderland

  

  Moderna to set up mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Kenya

  Reuters

  March 7 (Reuters) - Moderna Inc (MRNA.O), opens new tab said on Monday it would set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya, its first in Africa, to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots. Moderna said it expects to invest about $500 million in the Kenyan facility and supply as …

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  Nadine Sunderland

  

  ‘Dance is a purpose’: After losing his leg, South Africa’s Musa Motha is inspiring with every move

  CNN

  CNN — Growing up in an underdeveloped zone of Sebokeng, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, Musa Motha says his surroundings weren’t exactly idyllic. But he did have a dusty, make-shift soccer pitch directly across the street from his home. And for Motha, it was “paradise,” he said. That field …

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  Nadine Sunderland

  

  Africa's 'Great Green Wall' shifts focus to hold off desert

  Associated Press - By Carley Petesch

  KEBEMER, Senegal (AP) — The idea was striking in its ambition: African countries aimed to plant trees in a nearly 5,000-mile line spanning the entire continent, creating a natural barrier to hold back the Sahara Desert as climate change swept the sands south. The project called the Great Green Wall …

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  Nadine Sunderland

  

  The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020

  worldbank.org

  The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. …

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  Nadine Sunderland

  

  Sounds of Sasaab: Bringing traditional music to a global audience

  BBC News - BBC World

  Sounds sampled from the remote Samburu community are the basis for a new electronic music album. Sounds sampled from the remote Samburu community are the basis for a new electronic music album.