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Sisi publishes periodical issues in Arts & Culture, Science & Technology, and Economy & Politics.

DRC approves the use of acoziborole, a breakthrough one-day oral treatment against sleeping sickness

Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative <media@dndi.org> Jun 12, 2026, 11:26 AM (12 days ago) to me DRC approves the use of acoziborole, a breakthrough one-day oral treatment against sleeping sickness The registration follows successful clinical trials conducted in the DRC and Guinea and paves the way for use across all African countries where the most common form of the disease, caused by gambiense human African trypanosomiasis, is endemic. The medicine will be available free of charge to patients.

Science & Health

South African scientists make breakthrough in decoding cancer’s most effective survival strategy

Understanding the location and nature of the MUC1 sugars that prevent the immune system from detecting tumours provides the foundation for our laboratory and others in the field to develop cancer vaccines, biomarkers and therapeutics.

Art & Culture

People are marrying holograms and making friends with chatbots. But can AI bring true happiness?

Genuine happiness relies on authentic interpersonal connections, but AI is disrupting traditional ideas of friendship and relationships. Can technology really replace human relationships?

Politics & Economy

Can Africa survive the global aid squeeze? Yes, but it will take financial discipline

Official development assistance, the technical term for foreign aid, fell by 23.1% in 2025, the largest annual contraction on record. It’s projected to decline by a further 5.8% in 2026.

Science & Health

Ebola may have spread beyond Africa. How are health authorities responding?

The current Ebola outbreak is the third-largest in world history, with 906 suspected cases and 223 deaths in the DRC alone as of 27 May.

ODDITIES

Nouadhibou, Mauritania: The Ship Graveyard at the Edge of the Sahara

A ship graveyard is exactly what the name suggests: a place where vessels are abandoned, dismantled, or left to decay. Some emerge from catastrophe. Namibia’s Skeleton Coast is lined with wrecks destroyed by currents, fog, and reefs. Bangladesh’s Chittagong and India’s Alang became industrial dismantling zones where ships are systematically broken apart for scrap. Australia’s Rottnest ship graveyard was deliberately used as a dumping ground for obsolete vessels throughout the twentieth century. Nouadhibou was different.

ODDITIES

1959: The Day America Delivered the Mail by Cruise Missile

In 1959, the United States Navy launched 3,000 letters aboard a nuclear-capable cruise missile. The experiment lasted 22 minutes. The fantasy behind it lasted much longer.

ODDITIES

The Wüstenschiff: Johann Christoph Bischoff’s 1932 “Ship of the Desert”

The Wüstenschiff, or “Desert Ship,” was a 1920s German engineering proposal – a land-borne ocean liner designed to ferry passengers and cargo across vast deserts.

Politics & Economy

Mali’s armed groups fill a government vacuum – addressing this is key to ending the violence

We are political scientists who have researched the security situation in Mali and the Sahel. Our recently published paper showed that non-state armed groups in the Sahel, particularly in Mali, have emerged as key power brokers, shaping local governance by filling gaps left by weak state institutions.

Art & Culture Fashion & Beauty

Why do so many African women bleach their skin? Study looks beyond what they tell researchers

Our study included a sample of 221 predominantly South African Black women. This sample represented the largest share of respondents for this online survey, which was targeted to Black African women across the continent.