AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoMpox Case Tied to Brazzaville: Two foreign NIH researchers—Vincent Munster (Netherlands) and Claude Kwe (Cameroon)—were charged in Detroit after allegedly smuggling 113 vials of deactivated mpox (monkeypox) from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, and lying to U.S. border officials about the contents; prosecutors say CBP and FBI found the vials in styrofoam coolers after the men arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Jan. 25. AfDB Annual Meetings in Brazzaville: African Development Bank President Sidi Ould Tah urged stronger regional financial cooperation and risk-sharing, while the bank launched the Mission 300 Progress Tracker to show electricity access results in real time. Congo Basin Science Push: The Science Panel for the Congo Basin presented a landmark 2025 assessment report in Brazzaville, calling for urgent, coordinated investment to protect the basin’s ecosystems and climate role. Conservation Update: Camera trap footage from Lésio-Louna Reserve in Congo recorded a one-armed western lowland gorilla, Lengui, carrying a newborn in the wild.
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