SciDev.Net Apr 11 2025 Despite decades of efforts focused on mosquito eradication, drug therapies, and vaccines, malaria remains hard to beat, especially in Africa. The World Health Organization’s World Malaria Report 2024 indicates that 11 African countries bear about two thirds of the world’s malaria burden. A major factor in this persistence is the malaria parasite’s genetic adaptability, according to Abdoulaye Djimdé, president of the Pathogens genomic Diversity Network Africa (PDNA), a pan-