A group of South African teenagers has assembled a four-seater airplane and is flying it across the continent. Aviation experts consider this a significant feat, one that will inspire teens who want to be pilots, engineers, or anything else. Marize de Klerk reports for VOA from Eikenhof, South Africa.
Veterinarian Dr. Karin Lourens has become known as Africa's "pangolin doctor" for leading medical efforts to help the scaly anteaters rescued from the illegal wildlife trade to recover. Her pioneering tube-feeding and blood testing is helping to improve her endangered patients' survival rate. Marize de Klerk reports for VOA from Johannesburg.