Monkeypox (mpox) virus: Classification, origin, transmission, genome organization, antiviral drugs, and molecular diagnosis by Aysel Karagoz, Huseyin Tombuloglu, Moneerah Alsaeed, Guzin Tombuloglu, Abdullah A. AlRubaish, Amal Mahmoud, Samira Smajlović, Sabahudin Ćordić, Ali A. Rabaan, Ebtesam Alsuhaimi

“…Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is a double-stranded DNA virus belonging to the Poxviridae family of the genus Orthopoxvirus with two different clades known as West African and Congo Basin. Monkeypox (MPX) is a zoonosis that arises from the MPXV and causes a smallpox-like disease. …”
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Insights into Spatiotemporal Variations in the NPP of Terrestrial Vegetation in Africa from 1981 to 2018 by Qianjie Wang, Liang Liang, Shuguo Wang, Sisi Wang, Lianpeng Zhang, Siyi Qiu, Yanyan Shi, Jin Shi, Chen Sun

“…The results of the trend and fluctuation analysis showed that the NPP in the Sahara arid region in northern Africa and the arid region in South Africa exhibited a significant reduction and a high degree of fluctuation; most of the NPP in the tropical rainforests in central Africa and the deciduous broadleaved forests and deciduous needle-leaved forests on the north and south sides of the tropical rainforests increased and showed a low degree of fluctuation; the Congo basin, Gabon, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and other regions were affected by human activities, while the NPP in these regions exhibited a significant reduction and a high degree of fluctuation. …”
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Six new species of Cichlidogyrus Paperna, 1960 (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) from the gills of cichlids (Teleostei: Cichliformes) from the Lomami River Basin (DRC: Middle Congo) by Mare Geraerts, Fidel Muterezi Bukinga, Maarten P. M. Vanhove, Antoine Pariselle, Auguste Chocha Manda, Emmanuel Vreven, Tine Huyse, Tom Artois

“…These results highlight the species diversity of this parasite genus in the Congo Basin.…”
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Comparing earth observation and inundation models to map flood hazards by Laurence Hawker, Jeffrey Neal, Beth Tellman, Jiayong Liang, Guy Schumann, Colin Doyle, Jonathan A Sullivan, James Savage, Raphael Tshimanga

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Genomic history of human monkey pox infections in the Central African Republic between 2001 and 2018 by Nicolas Berthet, Stéphane Descorps-Declère, Camille Besombes, Manon Curaudeau, Andriniaina Andy Nkili Meyong, Benjamin Selekon, Ingrid Labouba, Ella Cyrielle Gonofio, Rita Sem Ouilibona, Huguette Dorine Simo Tchetgna, Maxence Feher, Arnaud Fontanet, Mirdad Kazanji, Jean-Claude Manuguerra, Alexandre Hassanin, Antoine Gessain, Emmanuel Nakoune

“…The phylogenetic pattern shows that all of them emerged in the rainforest block of the Congo Basin. Since most human index cases in CAR occurred at the northern edge of western and eastern rainforests, transmissions from wild animals living in the rainforest is the most probable hypothesis. …”
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Monkeypox virus genome sequence from an imported human case in Colombia by Katherine Laiton-Donato, Diego A. Álvarez-Díaz, Carlos Franco-Muñoz, Héctor A. Ruiz-Moreno, Paola Rojas-Estévez, Andrés Prada, Alicia Rosales, Martha Lucía Ospina, Marcela Mercado-Reyes

“…The current classification divides MPXV into three clades: Clade I (Central African or Congo Basin clade) and clades IIa and IIb (West African clades). …”
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Characterisation of stable isotopes to identify residence times and runoff components in two meso-scale catchments in the Abay/Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia by S. Tekleab, J. Wenninger, S. Uhlenbrook

“…The Atlantic–Indian Ocean, Congo basin, Upper White Nile and the Sudd swamps are the potential moisture source areas during the main rainy (summer) season, while the Indian–Arabian and Mediterranean Sea moisture source areas during little rain (spring) and dry (winter) seasons. …”
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Performance assessment of daily GR conceptual rainfall-runoff models in the Upper Benue River (Cameroon) using airGR packages by R. M. Nonki, R. M. Nonki, R. M. Nonki, E. Amoussou, E. Amoussou, R. M. Tshimanga, D. Koubodana Houteta, D. J. Kodja, F. E. Kemgang Ghomsi, F. E. Kemgang Ghomsi, A. Lenouo

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ADHI: the African Database of Hydrometric Indices (1950–2018) by Y. Tramblay, N. Rouché, J.-E. Paturel, G. Mahé, J.-F. Boyer, E. Amoussou, A. Bodian, H. Dacosta, H. Dakhlaoui, H. Dakhlaoui, A. Dezetter, D. Hughes, L. Hanich, L. Hanich, C. Peugeot, R. Tshimanga, P. Lachassagne

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Safeguarding villagers’ access to foods from timber trees: Insights for policy from an inhabited logging concession in Gabon by Hermann Taedoumg, Paulus Maukonen, Christian Mikolo Yobo, Donald Midoko Iponga, Ronald Noutcheu, Julius Chupezi Tieguhong, Laura Snook

“…Villagers did not record a decline in availability of or access to these fruits over the past 5 years, suggesting little or no immediate conflict between timber production and access to fruits from these trees. Keywords: Congo Basin, Dacryodes buettneri, Forest fruits, Gambeya lacourtiana, NTFP, Timber concessions…”
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Anthropogenic impacts on lowland tropical peatland biogeochemistry by Page, Susan, Mishra, Shailendra, Agus, Fahmuddin, Anshari, Gusti, Dargie, Greta, Evers, Stephanie, Jauhiainen, Jyrki, Jaya, Adi, Jovani-Sancho, Antonio Jonay, Laurén, Ari, Sjögersten, Sofie, Suspense, Ifo Averti, Wijedasa, Lahiru S., Evans, Chris D.

“…Extensive peatlands are found in Southeast Asia, the Congo Basin and Amazonia, but their total global area remains unknown owing to inadequate data. …”
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Towards the use of satellite-based tropical forest disturbance alerts to assess selective logging intensities by Anne-Juul Welsink, Johannes Reiche, Veronique de Sy, Sarah Carter, Bart Slagter, Daniela Requena Suarez, Ben Batros, Marielos Peña-Claros, Martin Herold

“…We derive the area of tree cover loss from expert interpretations of monthly PlanetScope mosaics and assess the relationship with the RAdar for Detecting Deforestation (RADD) alerts across 50 logging sites in the Congo Basin. We do this separately for various aggregation levels, and for tree cover loss from felling and skidding, and logging roads. …”
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Global Habitat Suitability of <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> (JE Smith) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae): Key Parasitoids Considered for Its Biological Control by Ghislain T. Tepa-Yotto, Henri E. Z. Tonnang, Georg Goergen, Sevgan Subramanian, Emily Kimathi, Elfatih M. Abdel-Rahman, Daniel Flø, Karl H. Thunes, Komi K. M. Fiaboe, Saliou Niassy, Anani Bruce, Samira A. Mohamed, Manuele Tamò, Sunday Ekesi, May-Guri Sæthre

“…Model predictions showed particularly high establishment potential of the five hymenopteran parasitoids in areas that are heavily affected by FAW (like the coastal belt of West Africa from Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to Nigeria, the Congo basin to Eastern Africa, Eastern, Southern and Southeastern Asia and some portions of Eastern Australia) and those of potential invasion risks (western & southern Europe). …”
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Projections of wildfire risk and activities under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming scenarios by Xiaobin Peng, Miao Yu, Haishan Chen, Botao Zhou, Ying Shi, Li Yu

“…The ensemble means from the FFDIn and results from the CLM4.5-BGC with multiple forcings show that the dry areas in the southwestern US, Brazilian Highlands, and Arabian islands are projected to face higher wildfire risk with larger burned areas and more carbon emissions under a warmer climate. The Congo Basin and part of the Amazon could have a lower wildfire risk with smaller burned areas and less carbon emissions. …”
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The UNESCO FRIEND-Water program: accelerates, shares and transfers knowledge and innovation in hydrology across the world in the frame of the Intergovernmental Hydrological Program... by G. Mahé, G. Abdo, E. Amoussou, T. Brou, S. Dietrich, A. El Tayeb, H. van Lanen, M. Meddi, A. Mishra, D. Orange, T. P. Quynh Le, R. Tshimanga, P. Valimba, S. Yepez, A. Ogilvie, O. Amrouni

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A new genome assembly of an African weakly electric fish (Campylomormyrus compressirostris, Mormyridae) indicates rapid gene family evolution in Osteoglossomorpha by Feng Cheng, Alice B. Dennis, Josephine Ijeoma Osuoha, Julia Canitz, Frank Kirschbaum, Ralph Tiedemann

“…Within the mormyrids, the genus Campylomormyrus is mostly endemic to the Congo Basin. Campylomormyrus serves as a model to understand mechanisms of adaptive radiation and ecological speciation, especially with regard to its highly diverse species-specific electric organ discharges (EOD). …”
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Projected changes in rainfall amount and distribution in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Evidence from an ensemble of high-resolution climate simulations by Freddy Bangelesa, Daniel Abel, Felix Pollinger, Praveen Rai, Katrin Ziegler, Dav Ebengo, Raphael M. Tshimanga, Mapatano Mala Ali, Jasper Knight, Heiko Paeth

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Development of two multiplex real-time PCR assays for simultaneous detection and differentiation of monkeypox virus IIa, IIb, and I clades and the B.1 lineage by Shuting Huo, Yuda Chen, Roujian Lu, Zhongxian Zhang, Gaoqian Zhang, Li Zhao, Yao Deng, Changcheng Wu, Wenjie Tan

“…In Panel 1, we mixed one pair of primers and three probes to detect and differentiate the MPXV Western Africa (IIa, IIb clade) and Congo Basin (I clade) and other orthopoxviruses. In Panel 2, we mixed one pair of primers and two probes to detect the 2022 MPXV (B.1 lineage and its descendant lineages). …”
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Changes in climate extremes over West and Central Africa at 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming by Arona Diedhiou, Adeline Bichet, Richard Wartenburger, Sonia I Seneviratne, David P Rowell, Mouhamadou B Sylla, Ismaila Diallo, Stella Todzo, N’datchoh E Touré, Moctar Camara, Benjamin Ngounou Ngatchah, Ndjido A Kane, Laure Tall, François Affholder

“…We applied a scaling approach to capture changes in climate extremes with increase in global mean temperature in several subregions within the WAF domain: Western Sahel, Central Sahel, Eastern Sahel, Guinea Coast and Central Africa including Congo Basin. While there are several uncertainties and large ensemble spread in the projections of temperature and precipitation indices, most models show high-impact changes in climate extremes at subregional scale. …”
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Global crop calendars of maize and wheat in the framework of the WorldCereal project by Belén Franch, Juanma Cintas, Inbal Becker-Reshef, María José Sanchez-Torres, Javier Roger, Sergii Skakun, José Antonio Sobrino, Kristof Van Tricht, Jeroen Degerickx, Sven Gilliams, Benjamin Koetz, Zoltan Szantoi, Alyssa Whitcraft

“…Meanwhile, the largest errors (RMSE between 40 and 60 days) occurred in regions of South America close to the Amazon Forest and in Africa close to the Congo Basin. In the case of maize, the SOS (EOS) evaluation shows an R2 of 0.88 (0.79) and an RMSE of 24 (28) days for maize, with the best performing regions (RMSE < 15 days) located in the Northern Hemisphere, South Africa, and Australia, important areas for global maize production and trade. …”
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