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End is in sight : tackling a rare disease in a global pandemic

By Emeline Wuilbercq, Thomson Reuters Foundation 6 Min Read Campaigners credit community-led efforts with success Access to clean water is key, say campaigners ADDIS ABABA, April 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Okello Aballa Ognum regularly has to walk deep into the jungles of south-west Ethiopia to treat the water ponds that harbour a debilitating parasitic disease. Painstakingly, he measures the water volume to determine how much chemical treatment to use against copepods, the tiny water fleas that carry the Guinea worm larvae. If ingested by humans, the larvae can grow up to a meter long before emerging through the skin, leading to serious disability and amputation in the worst cases.

ICYMI: Feel-good stories from around the world

ICYMI: Feel-good stories from around the world dw.com 1 day ago Kai Dambach A new COVID-19 test is easier to handle, a nasty illness may soon go the way of smallpox, and South African lions will soon be free. DW shows that not everything is doom and gloom. © Pippa Henkinson/Blood Lions /AP/picture alliance South Africa will end its captive lion industry, and outlaw the sale of their bones and canned hunting Kenya s Martha Koome to become first female chief justice © JUDICIAL SERVICE COMMISSION/REUTERS Martha Koome becomes the first woman to head any Kenyan branch of government Martha Koome is set to become Kenya s first female chief justice after being selected by a judicial panel. She will be the first female head of any branch of Kenyan government.

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