As a child in Ivory Coast, West Africa, Tidiane Ouattara would gather with friends in his village to gaze at the stars. The group, who called themselves the “Moon Club,” would lie on the ground and gaze up at the cosmos. “We believed we could talk to the moon,” he told CNN in a video… Read More »
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — As Congo grapples with its largest mpox epidemic, scientists warn that discrimination against gay and bisexual men on the continent could make the situation worse. In November, the World Health Organization reported that mpox, also known as monkeypox, had been spread through sex for the first time in Congo. This is… Read More »
By Loucoumane Coulibaly and Alessandra Prentice KORHOGO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Workers in northern Ivory Coast picked handfuls of cotton without stopping to wipe the sweat from their brows; This crop was saved by the use of extra pesticides after a new pest caused record damage in West and Central Africa. Last season. The Indian… Read More »