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News Articles: Africa

Map of new covid cases from Jan 22, 2021

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  • Global Health

Coronavirus World Map: Tracking The Spread Of The Outbreak

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 1 million globally.

January 24, 2021
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By:
  • Daniel Wood,
  • Stephanie Adeline,
  • and 2 more
A volunteer receives a shot as part of a COVID-19 vaccine trial at Soweto's Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 30, 2020.

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  • Africa

'Until Everyone Is Safe, No One Is Safe': Africa Awaits The COVID-19 Vaccine

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former president of Liberia, says much of Africa may be left out until 2022. "We don't have the resources. It's as simple as that," she says.

January 22, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep

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  • Politics

Cloe Shasha Brooks: The Search For Big Ideas

Anyone from anywhere can give a TED Talk. This hour, we're joined by curator Cloe Shasha Brooks, who leads a massive search each year to discover brilliant speakers who often fly under the radar.

January 22, 2021
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By:
  • NPR/TED Staff
Adult hookworms from a dog. The larvae, which penetrate the skin, are even smaller.

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  • Global Health

Why It Can Be Harder To Fight Hookworms In Alabama Than In Argentina

The wriggling parasites are a scourge around the world. And in some ways, other countries are better at fighting them than the U.S. But a new effort in the rural South shows promise.

January 22, 2021
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By:
  • Susan Brink
Workers check oxygen tanks at a hospital in Manaus, Brazil. Severe oxygen shortages as a second coronavirus wave is surging have prompted local authorities to airlift patients to other parts of Brazil.

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  • Global Health

Reinfections More Likely With New Coronavirus Variants, Evidence Suggests

The variant in Brazil is causing a surge in Manaus, a city where the virus previously infected huge numbers in the spring of 2020. Researchers are trying to determine why.

January 21, 2021
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
A man holds a desert locust in his hand in Kenya's Rift Valley. Farmers in central Kenya fear the locusts will strip vegetation from the rangeland where their livestock graze.

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  • Africa

Locust Swarms Threaten Parts Of East Africa

Swarms of locusts have reached dangerous levels in parts of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. They're reproducing rapidly in part because of unusual rainfall patterns.

January 19, 2021
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
Ugandan election commission officials count ballots after the polls closed at a polling station in Kampala on Thursday.

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  • Africa

Uganda Election: President Yoweri Museveni Declared Winner As Bobi Wine Alleges Fraud

Uganda's electoral commission says Museveni has won a sixth term in office, but Wine is saying the election was rigged, and the top U.S. diplomat to Africa is calling the vote "fundamentally flawed."

January 16, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has been in power since 1986. His police chief has warned that anyone causing trouble on election day "will regret being born." Museveni is facing a formidable electoral challenge from Bobi Wine, who has been arrested multiple times and said Tuesday that the military had killed his driver and that his home was raided.

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  • World

Uganda's Ruler Museveni Defends Violent Crackdown In Bid For 6th Term

President Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, spoke to NPR ahead of Thursday's election. His main challenger, Bobi Wine, said Tuesday the military had killed his driver and his home had been raided.

January 12, 2021
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By:
  • Eyder Peralta
The question of what to call the "developing world" is a developing debate.

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  • Global Health

Memo To People Of Earth: 'Third World' Is An Offensive Term!

TV correspondents and pundits spoke it, Twitter users typed it. They said the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was what happens in "Third World" countries. There's a problem with that.

January 08, 2021
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By:
  • Marc Silver
Students rehearse a poem that they will recite at an event advocating against female genital mutilation at the Imbirikani Girls High School in Kenya.

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  • Global Health

Is The Pandemic Causing A Surge In Female Genital Mutilation?

Kenya's president pledged to stamp out the practice by 2022. But since the pandemic began, activists say more girls are being cut — and married off afterward.

January 05, 2021
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By:
  • Maria Godoy

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  • World

Our Favorite Global TikToks Of 2020: From A Handwashing Dance To A Literal Ice Box

As the clock ticks farewell to a terrible, horrible, very bad year, TikTok brought moments of joy. Here's what ticked the boxes for TikTok devotees.

January 01, 2021
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Health workers from Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China, share an emotional embrace with their peers from a hospital in Jilin province at the Tianhe Airport. Colleagues who worked on the front lines together bid farewell as Wuhan lifted its coronavirus lockdown in April.

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  • World

International Stories You Loved In 2020

The coronavirus, the rescue of an abused elephant, harassment of Black diplomats and the hunt for Nazi-looted instruments are some of the subjects of the year's most popular NPR international stories.

December 31, 2020
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By:
  • Alex Leff
Members of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) protest against the death of George Floyd outside U.S. Consulate in solidarity with Black Lives Matter movement on June 8, 2020 in Sandton, South Africa.

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  • Race

In 2020, Protests Spread Across The Globe With A Similar Message: Black Lives Matter

Journalists based in Colombia, South Africa and Indonesia talk about how the Black Lives Matter movement inspired activists abroad this year.

December 30, 2020
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By:
  • Ashley Westerman ,
  • Ryan Benk,
  • and 1 more
A worker wearing personal protective equipment disinfects the Holy Redeemer Church in Bangkok after a Christmas Eve mass. Thailand is one of many countries now seeing a surge in cases.

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  • Global Health

Why The World Is Seeing Some Of Its Most Extreme Pandemic Lockdowns

Even as the European Union began vaccine rollouts on Sunday, nations around the globe are instituting severe lockdowns and travel restrictions. Fear of the U.K. variant is a key reason.

December 28, 2020
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
Patrick Phiri of Malawi and fiance Fiona ten Have of Holland kiss in her parents' garden. The couple met in Malawi, where they worked for the same charity, and fell in love. A 3-week visit to the Netherlands turned into 7 months due to pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions.

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  • Family

COVID Love Story: Can A Malawian Bachelor And A Dutch Bachelorette Make It?

They met and fell in love while working for a nonprofit in his country. He came to visit her in the Netherlands. Because of the pandemic, his hometown visited lasted 7 months. Would love conquer all?

December 27, 2020
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By:
  • Nick Schonfeld
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