Burkina Faso shut down a Bill Gates-funded mosquito experiment. The West called it a setback for science. Burkina Faso called it sovereignty

Burkina Faso shut down a Bill Gates-funded mosquito experiment. The West called it a setback for science. Burkina Faso called it sovereignty. The Target Malaria project ran in Burkina Faso for over a decade. It was funded by the Gates Foundation. In August 2025, researchers released 16,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in a village called Souroukoudingan. […] The post Burkina Faso shut down a Bill Gates-funded mosquito experiment. The West called it a setback for science. Burkina Faso called it sovereignty first appeared on The Zambian Observer .