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News Articles: Africa

A coffee grower in Ethiopia performs a traditional coffee ceremony.

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  • Food

East Africa is responsible for America's favorite morning brew

America owes its favorite beverage to East Africa, says a Memphis coffee shop owner whose trip to Ethiopia transformed his understanding of the beverage.

March 08, 2022
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By:
  • Simran Sethi
A driver sits in the cab of a combine harvester during the summer harvest in a field of wheat in Varva, Ukraine. Ukraine accounts for more than 10% of the global wheat market. Russia's war threatens to disrupt the spring planting season.

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  • Global Health

Russia's war on Ukraine is dire for world hunger. But there are solutions

Both countries are huge suppliers of grains and other essential foods. And with widespread hunger and high food prices already, the war couldn't have come at a worse time.

March 06, 2022
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
Journalists report from Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2. Media coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been massive.

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  • World

Not every war gets the same coverage as Russia's invasion — and that has consequences

Ongoing wars in, say, Yemen or Ethiopia get minimal attention compared with the media focus on the fighting in Ukraine. And there are ramifications on the humanitarian front.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
Nigerian students in Ukraine wait at the platform at the Lviv railway station on Sunday.

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  • World

International students are facing challenges as they try to evacuate Ukraine

Africans and South Asians studying and working in Ukraine have had added difficulty leaving the country because of discriminatory treatment by local authorities.

March 03, 2022
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt and
  • Eleanor Beardsley
Dragon blood tree at Diksam Plateau, on Yemen's Socotra Island. It's one of the sites included on the 2022 Watch from the World Monuments Fund.

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  • Arts & Life

Sites in Beirut, Benghazi and Brownsville, Texas, make a most-endangered list

Beirut's historic city center and the traditional territory of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas are among 25 places listed by World Monument Watch as in urgent need of preservation.

March 01, 2022
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
African residents in Ukraine wait at the platform inside the Lviv railway station on Sunday in Lviv in western Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Europe welcomes Ukrainian refugees but others, less so

The hospitality greeting Ukrainians fleeing the violence in their native country has highlighted the stark differences in treatment given to migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa.

February 28, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Permanent Representative of Kenya to the U.N. Martin Kimani, shown last year, delivered a speech criticizing Russian actions.

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  • Europe

Kenyan U.N. ambassador compares Ukraine's plight to colonial legacy in Africa

Instead of looking back to an age of empire, Russia should accept Ukraine's borders and move on, Kenya's ambassador told a session of the U.N. Security Council.

February 22, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
"Small," as he was widely known, played a homemade <em>kologo </em>(a 2-string lute)— with dog tags attached to the end for rattles.

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  • Music

Remembering 'Small,' the funeral singer who made joyful music in the face of death

The Ghanaian singer would vocalize and dance all night long to send off the departed. On the verge of his long awaited first trip to perform abroad, he has died, reportedly of COVID.

February 17, 2022
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By:
  • Ian Brennan
French soldiers who wrapped up a four-month tour of duty in the Sahel board a U.S. Air Force C-130 transport plane, leave their base in Gao, Mali on Wednesday, June 9, 2021.

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  • Africa

France says it will withdraw troops from Mali but remain in West Africa

The announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron will end nearly a decade of fighting Islamic extremists in the West African country.

February 17, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
People line up to receive a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose during a mass vaccination campaign in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in August 2021.

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  • Global Health

Why this USAID official is optimistic the U.S. can get the world vaccinated

Jeremy Konyndyk, executive director of USAID's COVID task force, shares his perspective on the U.S.' efforts to donate and distribute vaccines to low-income nations.

February 15, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly and
  • Lauren Hodges
Women chant slogans protesting violence against women and demanding the release of all detainees before the U.N. rights office in Khartoum, Sudan, Feb. 2, 2022.

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  • World

Sudan's military rulers step up crackdown and arrests of activists

Hundreds of activists and protest leaders have been targeted since a military coup last October removed a transitional government from power. The detentions have intensified in recent weeks.

February 11, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
People make their way home during bad weather in Tamatave, Madagascar, Feb. 5, 2022.

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  • Weather

An estimated 45,000 people have been displaced by a cyclone in Madagascar

The cyclone has caused widespread damage by blowing the roofs off homes, knocking down trees and utility poles, making roads impassable and flooding many areas.

February 06, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Testing blood for malaria at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Malawi.

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  • Global Health

Drug-resistant malaria is emerging in Africa. Doctors are worried — yet hopeful

Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without better surveillance, experts say it is hard to track the threat.

February 06, 2022
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By:
  • Pratik Pawar
Heavy equipment is used to dig through a mountain on Friday during an attempt to rescue a boy trapped in a well.

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  • Africa

A 5-year-old boy dies after he was trapped in a well for 4 days

Moroccan King Mohammed VI expressed his condolences to the boy's parents in a statement released by the palace. The exact circumstances of how the boy fell in the well are unclear.

February 05, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Thousands of New Year's day revelers gather on the South Beach in Durban after the government lifted a COVID-19 curfew.

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  • Africa

South Africa eases most COVID restrictions, citing high population immunity

Up to 80% of South Africans are either vaccinated or have recovered from an infection The only vestige of COVID-19 rules are masks, which are still required in public spaces and on public transport.

February 01, 2022
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By:
  • Eyder Peralta
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