Burkina Faso ends Target Malaria, a GMO mosquito project funded by the Gates Foundation. The government cites biosafety risks, low impact, and scientific sovereignty in halting the program. The fight ...

Burkina Faso’s military government has suspended the controversial Target Malaria project, a Bill and Melinda Gates ...

Target Malaria, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is the latest NGO to come under pressure from the country's ...

The Burkinabe government Friday announced the termination of all activities linked to the Target Malaria anti-malaria ...

Burkina Faso's military government under Ibrahim Traoré has ordered the immediate halt of an initiative backed by US ...

Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and waded into a thorny bioethics debate, by letting loose thousands of genetically sterilised mosquitoes. It ...

The mosquito-borne disease malaria kills more than 400,000 people each year, the vast majority in Africa. Target Malaria, an international group of scientists, is working in Burkina Faso on a ...

That’s the vision, anyway, of Target Malaria, a research consortium with $70 million of Gates money. But Target Malaria will only release gene drive mosquitoes with the consent of the local population ...

The scientists are part of a project by a nonprofit consortium called Target Malaria, made up of biologists and social scientists from around the world. In the next few months, they will release ...

Burkina Faso on Friday halted a project backed by US billionaire Bill Gates that had seen genetically modified mosquitoes ...

SOUROUKOUDINGA, Burkina Faso (Reuters) - Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and waded into a thorny bioethics debate, by letting loose thousands of ...

Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso — The mosquito-borne disease malaria kills more than 400,000 people each year, the vast majority in Africa. Target Malaria, an international group of scientists, is ...