On 11 August 2025, researchers at Burkina Faso’s Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante released around 16,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into a village in the country’s Western Region, the first release of its kind on the African continent. Seven days later, the government ordered the entire programme shut down.

Researchers at KNUST tested 113 schoolchildren in western Ghana. Eighty-six were carrying malaria parasites but not one of them felt ill.