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People observe a destroyed building and vehicles at the scene of an attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday.

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  • Africa

2 car bombs leave scores of casualties at an intersection in Somalia's capital

Somalia's president says at least 100 people were killed in Saturday's two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital, and the toll could rise.

October 30, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Dr. Benjamin Black in front of the Gondama Referral Center in Sierra Leone, where he worked during the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016. The center treated children and women in urgent need of obstetric and gynecological care. As the outbreak exploded, the center decided to stop admitting pregnant women, a decision that still weighs on Black.

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  • Global Health

A doctor's Ebola memoir is all too timely with a new outbreak in Uganda

Dr. Benjamin Black talks about Belly Woman: Birth, Blood and Ebola — the inside story of what it was like to face a terrifying epidemic in West Africa.

October 29, 2022
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  • Susan Brink
Olha Abakumova, an opera singer from western Ukraine, came to the U.S. with her daughter. (Her husband was not able to migrate.) Olha brought her most treasured sheet music for Ukrainian arias. "They connect me with my motherland, culture and my roots," she says. "When I'm singing, I see pictures in front of my eyes," she says. "The words and music move through me and take me back to Ukraine."

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  • Global Health

PHOTOS: If you had to leave home and could take only 1 keepsake, what would it be?

We asked refugees around the world to tell us of a memento they brought to connect them to their old life even as they embarked on a new and uncertain future.

October 29, 2022
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  • NPR Special Report
Senior Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif poses in December 2016 for photograph prior to recoding an episode of his talk show at a studio in Islamabad.

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  • Asia

A Pakistani journalist living in hiding was killed by police at a roadblock in Kenya

Arshad Sharif, 50, had been in hiding since July after he fled Pakistan to avoid arrest. He had been critical of the country's military and the government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif.

October 24, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

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  • Africa

Deaths from southern tribal clashes in Sudan reach at least 220

Two days of tribal fighting in Sudan's south killed at least 220 people, a senior health official said Sunday, marking one the deadliest bouts of tribal violence in recent years.

October 24, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Mariama Kuyateh, 30, holds up a picture of her son Musa, whose death from acute kidney failure on Oct. 10 was linked to contaminated cough syrup imported to Gambia, where they live, from India. The World Health Organization issued an alert about the medication.

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  • Global Health

Contaminated cough syrup from India linked to 70 child deaths. It's happened before

The World Health Organization has issued an alert about the deaths in the West African nation of Gambia. For context, we speak to the authors of The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India.

October 19, 2022
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  • Kamala Thiagarajan
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni inspects the guard of honour, during the 60th Independence Anniversary Celebrations, in Kololo, Uganda, Sunday Oct. 9, 2022.

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  • Africa

Uganda has locked down two districts in a bid to stem the spread of Ebola

Ugandan authorities on Saturday imposed a travel lockdown on two Ebola-hit districts as part of efforts to stop the spread of the contagious disease.

October 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Currently a master's student in social work at Temple University in Philadephia, Lavelah stocks up on supplies to bring home.

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  • Global Health

'Comfort Closet' helps Liberians overcome an obstacle to delivering in a hospital

Public hospitals in Liberia may require a bag of supplies to gain admission for delivery: bleach, baby clothes, diapers. The $100 price tag is too much for the poor. One nurse has a solution.

October 15, 2022
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  • Jason Silverstein
An injured Tigray People's Liberation Front fighter who was shot in the cheek recovers after surgery at the Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region. It's the only place in Tigray currently conducting surgery. Elsewhere, "they are stopped because there is no supply, there is no electricity, and there is no fuel," says one Tigray doctor.

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  • Global Health

'Where is humanity?' ask the helpless doctors of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region

Civil war has blockaded the country's northern region and decimated a hospital system that serves nearly 7 million people. Without basic supplies, power and medicine, thousands are needlessly dying.

October 14, 2022
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  • Ari Daniel
Twins Kehinde Adamolekun, left, and Taiwo Adamolekun, 28, attend the annual twins festival in Igbo-Ora South west Nigeria, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022.

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  • Africa

This Nigerian city has a high birth rate of twins — and no one is sure why

Twins appear to be unusually abundant in Nigeria's southwestern city of Igbo-Ora. For the past 12 years, the community has organized an annual festival to celebrate twins.

October 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Doctors walk in the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, on Sept. 29. Ugandan health officials have declared an Ebola outbreak in several regions of the country.

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  • Global Health

Travelers coming to the U.S. from Uganda will face enhanced screening for Ebola

With an outbreak of the deadly disease declared in Uganda, travelers who have been to the African country within 21 days of arriving in the U.S. will be subject to enhanced screening.

October 06, 2022
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  • Halisia Hubbard
This areal view shows rows of boats used for harvesting salt in Lake Retba in Senegal in 2021.

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  • World

Come along as we connect the dots between climate, migration and the far-right

Today, we are launching a project to look at how the ripples of climate change are radiating outward. Beginning in Senegal, we will connect the dots between climate, migration and political extremism.

October 03, 2022
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  • Ari Shapiro
Supporters of Capt. Ibrahim Traore cheer with Russian flags in the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Sunday. Burkina Faso's new junta leadership is calling for calm after the French Embassy and other buildings were attacked.

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  • Africa

The old junta leader makes way for the new in Burkina Faso's second coup of the year

The power grab deepens fears that the political chaos could divert attention from an Islamic insurgency whose violence has killed thousands and forced 2 million to flee their homes.

October 02, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In this image from video broadcast by RTB state television, coup spokesman Capt. Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho reads a statement in a studio in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, on Friday evening.

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  • Africa

Gunfire erupts in Burkina Faso a day after the second coup in nine months

Gunshots rang out in Burkina Faso's capital amid signs of lingering tensions a day after a group of military officers overthrew the man who had seized power in a coup in January.

October 01, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The general Nanisca, portrayed by Viola Davis, is the star of <em>The Woman King. </em>When a man objects to her influence, she retorts: "If the king respects me, it is because I have earned it."

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  • Opinion

Opinion: 'The Woman King' speaks loud and clear to this Nigerian feminist

The film about female warriors in 1800s West Africa is all too relevant, in 2022, writes Oyeronke Oyebanji: "The inequalities faced by the women in the movie reflect the struggles of women today."

September 25, 2022
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  • Oyeronke Oyebanji
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