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African nations find solutions to shortages in virus crisis

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Carley Petesch |May 11, 2020 | Christian Science Monitor A loud hiss and grunt come from a green bag pressing air through a tube, as Senegalese researchers work to develop a prototype ventilator that could cost a mere $160 each instead of tens of thousands of dollars. The team is using 3-D printed parts as it works to find a homegrown solution to a medical shortfall … [Read more...] about African nations find solutions to shortages in virus crisis

What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus

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Jina Moore | May 15, 2020 | The New Yorker n early March, Ingrid Gercama left her home in the Netherlands and flew to war-torn South Sudan. An applied-research anthropologist with a special interest in epidemics, she had spent time on the African continent during a public-health emergency before, remaining in Liberia, in 2014, during that country’s Ebola outbreak. When she … [Read more...] about What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus

What Kim Wants

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The Hopes and Fears of North Korea’s Dictator Jung H. Pak | May/June 2020 | Foreign Affairs etween 2017 and 2019, relations between the United States and North Korea made for great television. Perhaps this was by design: U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to believe that any interactions between the two adversaries would be more successful—or at least play more to his … [Read more...] about What Kim Wants