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Moctar Dembele (from Burkina Faso) and Gerard Niyondiko (from Burundi) have developed an anti-malaria soap. With this invention, they have won the 2013 Global Science Venture Competition (GSVC) organized by the University of California Berkeley (USA). Actually, they are the first non-Americans to win the GSVC.
Source: solve.mit.edu
The Faso Soap is manufactured with different ingredients including herbs, shea butter, essential oils of lemongrass and other components kept secret. One of these components kills mosquito larva, thus preventing the spread of mosquitos in stagnant waters. It is 100% made with locally available components.
These two young inventors have come up with a simple and affordable solution to help fight a big plague. With the prize money ($25,000) from the GSVC, they intended to improve the formula of the mosquito repellent soap. Moctar Dembele and Gerard Niyondiko prove that most of the solutions to African problems will be deaveloped by Africans themselves.