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The way gene drives work sounds like something from a science fiction novel, but they are already being used in laboratory tests. It is complicated stuff, but here is a simple explanation. While standard GM introduces a new, lab-tweaked gene into a organism, gene drive technology goes one stage further. …

The West Africa region is a focal point of old and new forms of armed conflict and this includes violent extremism, organised crime, piracy, unrest due to social inequality, land use conflicts and election-related violence. In three years, the region has suffered more than 5,300 attacks which have been blamed …

North Korea is grappling with the spread of Covid in an unvaccinated population, without access to effective anti-viral drugs. In early 2020, the country sealed its borders to try to insulate itself from the pandemic. Its leadership has so far rejected outside medical support. And state media has recommended traditional …

Togo on Monday night opened its land border with Ghana, coming more than 50 days after Ghana reopened its land borders to neighbouring countries. When Graphic Online’s Volta Regional correspondent Alberto Mario Noretti visited the border post in Lome at about 8:30 am Tuesday [May 17, 2022] the metal gates which were closed between …

Terrorist groups in the Sahel region looking for a coastal country, Amankwa-Manu We must ‘shine our eyes’ and really try to fight terrorism, Deputy defence minister Ghana warned to be vigilant as 8 soldiers die in terrorist attack in Togo Deputy Defence Minister, Kofi Amankwa-Manu, has expressed worry regarding the …

A 24-hour curfew has been declared in Sokoto, Nigeria, after protesters took to the streets demanding the release of two suspects in the murder of a Christian student last week. Deborah Samuel was beaten and burned by Muslim students who accused her of posting “blasphemous” statements about Islam in a WhatsApp group …

A college in the northwestern Nigerian state of Sokoto has been indefinitely shut after a female student in the school was killed over alleged blasphemy. The yet-to-be-identified student was accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad, which led to a mobbing that resulted in her death on Thursday, according to reports …

An evangelist is in trouble after telling people he knows of a gate leading to heaven from southwestern Nigeria that he can show them – for a fee. Pastor Ade Abraham was reported to police by one of his followers, who said the pastor had charged him 310,000 naira ($750; …

For a straight five-month period, foreign investors’ holdings of cedi denominated bonds continued a decline: reaching GH¢28.65billion at the end of 2022 first-quarter since it peaked in August 2021 at GH¢34.04billion, as market volatility persisted. During the period, investor sentiments led to a sell-off largely driven by various downgrades by …

The world’s only nonuplets – nine babies born at the same time – are “in perfect health” as they celebrate their first birthday, their father has told the BBC. “They’re all crawling now. Some are sitting up and can even walk if they hold on to something,” said Abdelkader Arby, …