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Abdullahi Tsanni

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Boston, United States
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Covers:  Science, Health, & Agriculture.
Doesn't Cover: Politics

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Abdullahi Tsanni’s Biography

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Science writer and journalist.

Abdullahi Tsanni’s Journalist Portfolio

Bridging the communications divide: Fighting COVID-19 misinformation using local languages - Nige...

Bridging the communications divide: Fighting COVID-19 misinformation using local languages - Nige...

By Abdullahi Tsanni (Lead Writer) When the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID - 19 a global pande…

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Bolstering Africa's coronavirus detection efforts

Bolstering Africa's coronavirus detection efforts

I study microbial diseases such as COVID-19, Lassa fever and Ebola. My research team at Redeemer's University…

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African scientists leverage open hardware

African scientists leverage open hardware

A 2018 article in the journal HardwareX details "an open source hardware setup to measure locomotor activity …

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Scaling rocky heights to learn a plant's survival secrets

Scaling rocky heights to learn a plant's survival secrets

Rose A. Marks abseils down South African cliffs to understand how the 'resurrection' plant stays alive for ye…

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African countries “under pressure” signed Trump’s America First health deal—and few rejected it

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By Abdullahi Tsanni
| The BMJ Verified
Severe external funding cuts have left many African nations forced to sign new transactional health aid agreements with the US.
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Can Rwanda sustain its rise in science and technology? Here’s what can help

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By Abdullahi Tsanni
| Nature Verified
The Political Economy of Rwanda’s Rise Pritish Behuria Cambridge Univ. Press (2026) Can Rwanda innovate its way to prosperity? Few African countries have drawn as much admiration and controversy as Rwanda has. Three decades since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group, Rwanda is widely viewed as a rare success story of African development. It has built a reputation for administrative competence, public-health achievements and ambitious state planning.
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‘We’re failing newborns’: The global push to reduce infant deaths is losing steam

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By Abdullahi Tsanni
| Science Magazine Verified
In 2015, as part of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations set an ambitious target for the world: Bring down neonatal deaths to 12 per 1000 live births or fewer by 2030. But with only 4 years to go, more than 60 countries are well off track. In Kenya, for example, neonatal mortality, defined as a baby dying within the first month of life, has declined by just one death per 1000 live births—from 22 to 21—since 2014.
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