Vaccine Push for Dengue: KNUST in Ghana has joined the €11m DENSTAR project to speed licensure and rollout of DengiAll, a single-dose dengue vaccine, with Phase III trials planned across sub-Saharan Africa as dengue spreads via mosquitoes amid climate change and urban growth. Child Health Tech in Africa: Malawi hospitals using IMPALA—AI monitoring that flags early patient deterioration—report major drops in child deaths, highlighting how low-resource wards can save lives with faster clinical alerts. Cancer Care Training: Merck Foundation and African First Ladies back expanded oncology training scholarships and cancer awareness efforts to tackle late diagnosis and the shortage of specialists across multiple African countries. Food Security in Gabon: Korea-Africa rice support enters a second phase, developing drought- and salinity-tolerant seeds for rain-fed regions, with faster breeding methods to boost yields. Forest Monitoring with Sound: A Gabon-included bioacoustics project is building acoustic baselines to detect subtle ecosystem changes that satellites can miss, supporting better conservation tracking.