Moderna won’t share its vaccine recipe. WHO has hired an African startup to crack it

Enlarge this image Mem­bers of a team at the Afrigen Bio­log­ics and Vac­cines lab in Cape Town, South Africa. The World Health Orga­ni­za­tion has enlist­ed the com­pa­ny to repli­cate Mod­er­na’s COVID-19 vac­cine. Tom­my Tren­chard for NPR Tom­my Tren­chard for NPR Fans of the tele­vi­sion series The Great British Bake Off have long mar­veled at the skill con­tes­tants show…

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African Women Are Taking a Stand in Colorado, USA Politics 

Han­na Bogale is one of 7 can­di­dates run­ning to fill two at-large posi­tions on the Auro­ra, Col­orado city coun­cil.  As a sec­ond-gen­er­a­­tion Ethiopi­an Amer­i­can, she believes it is crit­i­cal for more Africans to become involved in pol­i­tics to encour­age the younger gen­er­a­tion to get their voic­es heard. “Every­body in the African com­mu­ni­ty hears Amer­i­can pol­i­tics and…

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With Coverage of Guinea Coup, US News Media Dumb Down the News

I’ve writ­ten about US news media cov­er­age of the African con­ti­nent over the course of many years. In my analy­sis of the cov­er­age seen, the empha­sis con­tin­ues to be on what’s wrong with the con­ti­nent, with lit­tle effort made to report progress made over many decades of African social, eco­nom­ic, and demo­c­ra­t­ic change. The coverage…

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