Modern-day oracles? Meet the scientists tracking COVID’s crappy future
By Zano Kunene Far fewer people are testing for COVID-19 than last year this time, but most people flush. Water in the country’s drains can pick up a spike in…
Cameroonian woman lights up rural communities with solar energy
YAOUNDE– The sun shone from a cloudless sky in a quiet, bushy neighbourhood in Tiko, in Cameroon’s Southwest region. Eposi Njoh Monyengi was busy at work. In less than an…
Bangladeshi army deployed as container depot fire kills at least 45
DHAKA– At least 45 people were killed and hundreds of others injured as a devastating fire swept through a container facility in Chattogram district, about 242 km southeast of the…
Egyptian artist turns pencil tips into delicate sculptures
ROSETTA, Egypt — On a table at his home in Rosetta, a port city in northern Egypt, self-taught artist Ibrahim Bilal displayed a variety of his signature mini sculptures made…