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June 29, 2017
World Food Prize Winner: Immense Challenges Lie Ahead

African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina is honored for working to improve the lives of millions of small farmers across Africa

June 29, 2017
Dead Sea Shrinkage Predicts Future Mega Drought

The Dead Sea, the lowest spot on earth, is getting lower. With less rainfall than average this year, experts say the water level could drop more than one and a third meters by October. But the lake's shrinkage is not just a reflection of drier weather and increased water use. It's a prediction of a future mega-drought. Faith Lapidus reports.
June 29, 2017
Zika Cases Down Around the World from 2016

The number of cases of Zika virus is way down around the world this year. Instead of treating new cases, doctors, health workers and researchers are freer to track and help those children with microcephaly, a disease caused by Zika-carrying mosquitoes. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.
June 28, 2017
In South Sudan, One Hospital Delivers New Limbs, New Life

The hospital turned limb-making factory is in high demand in a country littered with mines and a civil war still raging
June 28, 2017
Volcanic Rock Stoves Cook Food - and Protect Forests - in Uganda

Heat-holding volcanic rocks broken down to the size of charcoal, the rocks are heated using starter briquettes and then remain hot for hours with the help a fan blowing a continuous flow of air over them
June 28, 2017
Head of Top US University for the Deaf Visiting Africa

The first-ever deaf woman leader of a U.S. university for deaf students is touring Africa, hoping to learn and to teach institutions here how to provide for hearing-impaired students. In South Africa, an estimated one-fifth of the disabled population is hard of hearing. Anita Powell shares a portion of her interview with Gallaudet University President Roberta Cordano.
June 28, 2017
Cairo Airport to Screen Passengers from Sudan for Cholera

Similar measures are already carried out in the Cairo airport for people arriving from Yemen due to an epidemic there
June 28, 2017
Kenya's New HIV Treatment Offers Hope for Patients

Drug offers less resistance and few side effects
June 27, 2017
Skin Patch Vaccine Protects Against Influenza

Every year, in the United States, less than half of the adults who should get a flu vaccine actually get the shot
June 27, 2017
From Prague to Mongolia, Wild Horses Return to the Steppes

Quarter-century-old project to repopulate the steppes of Mongolia with wild horses has been kept alive as four animals made the long trip back to their ancestral home from the Prague Zoo
June 27, 2017
Review Shows Concussions Ignored in World Cup

FIFA disregarded own advice on concussion assessment

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Thursday 29 June 2017

World Food Prize Winner: Immense Challenges Lie Ahead

Dead Sea Shrinkage Predicts Future Mega Drought

Zika Cases Down Around the World from 2016

In South Sudan, One Hospital Delivers New Limbs, New Life

Volcanic Rock Stoves Cook Food - and Protect Forests - in Uganda

Head of Top US University for the Deaf Visiting Africa

Cairo Airport to Screen Passengers from Sudan for Cholera

Kenya's New HIV Treatment Offers Hope for Patients

Skin Patch Vaccine Protects Against Influenza

From Prague to Mongolia, Wild Horses Return to the Steppes

Review Shows Concussions Ignored in World Cup

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World Food Prize Winner: Immense Challenges Lie Ahead

In South Sudan, One Hospital Delivers New Limbs, New Life

Volcanic Rock Stoves Cook Food - and Protect Forests - in Uganda

Cairo Airport to Screen Passengers from Sudan for Cholera

Kenya's New HIV Treatment Offers Hope for Patients

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