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Ugandan scientist among Africa Food Prize winners

A Ugandan researcher working at NASA has earned a prize for helping to fight food insecurity in Africa

How researching outer space can help to solve problems with farming on earth. We interview Dr. Catherine Nakalembe, a researcher at NASA and one of the winners of the 2020 Africa Food Prize.

The local government area of Chibok, in Borno State, Nigeria, became infamously well known to the world after two hundred schoolgirls were kidnapped from a local school in 2014. Six years later now, the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has started conducting school exams in Chibok once again. Is this a sign of improved security in the area? We ask Dr. Allen Manasseh, spokesperson for Chibok.

Ethiopians celebrate the new year.

(Photo: Dr Nakalembe. Credit: Dr Nakalembe)

23 minutes

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Fri 11 Sep 202019:06GMT

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  • Fri 11 Sep 202019:06GMT

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