Africa Says No to Bill Gates’ GMO Mosquitoes: Burkina Faso Suspends Controversial Malaria Project
Burkina Faso has slammed the brakes on a billion-dollar biotech experiment many claimed was the future of malaria eradication. On August 23, the country’s military-led government suspended the Bill Gates–backed Target Malaria project and ordered the destruction of genetically modified mosquitoes released into the wild. The decision didn’t come out of nowhere. For years, scientists…