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…
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…
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…
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…