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A collage of video screenshots that feature Africans exploited for profit in a growing trend known as "blessings videos."

A new documentary uncovers the story behind China’s racist ‘blessings video’ trend

Arts, Culture & Media

These trendy videos often feature African children who are prompted to parrot Chinese greetings and to act in inappropriate ways — for entertainment.

Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere rest on the ground as they gather at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus

Polish border police push back migrants at Belarus border

Top of The World
A man in Malawi wearing a blue shirt explains a document to an elderly woman wearing a white head wrap outside

Malawians vote for president (again) amid pandemic 

Elections
Women sit on the ground wearing colorful head wraps waiting for aid.

A month after Cyclone Idai, governments struggle to secure crucial recovery funds

Climate Change
A woman is shown in ankle deep water walks down a flooded road with heavily damaged buildings in the background.

Mozambique starts three days of mourning after cyclone kills hundreds

Environment
A still photo taken from drone footage above a settlement on the edge of Beira, Mozambique showing dozens of buildings flooded.

Death toll in Mozambique cyclone, floods could surpass 1,000

Environment

The number of people killed in a powerful storm and preceding floods in Mozambique could exceed 1,000 putting the potential death toll greatly more than current figures.

360 Staff Pick: The Very Best

Arts, Culture & Media

Playlist anxiety this party season? It’s The Very Best to the rescue. Fronted by a Malawian Esau Mwamwaya, the band made mixtape history last year with its killer remixes of M.I.A’s ‘Paper Planes’ and Vampire Weekend’s ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa.’ Even without those tunes, the album offers dizzying layers of Afropop and sunny vocals in […]

African elephant

Nearly wiped out by poaching, 520 elephants relocated to new, safer home in Malawi

Environment

Malawi on Thursday celebrated the successful conclusion of a two-year project moving 520 sedated elephants by truck to a reserve where the animals had been nearly wiped out by poaching.

Fainess Lipenga was trafficked by her boss, a former diplomat in the US from Malawi. Now, Lipenga is an advocate for victims of human trafficking.

This woman says she was trafficked by a diplomat. And it happens all the time.

Justice

Fainess Lipenga came to the US to work as a maid for a diplomat from Malawi, but she says she was treated more like a slave. Her boss, covered by diplomatic immunity, never faced the consequences.

Mogens Amdi Petersen, shown in 2003, is the founder of a secretive organization called the Teachers Group, which former members, academics and the Danish media have likened to a cult. He's also an international fugitive wanted in Denmark for embezzlement

UNICEF cuts ties with questionable NGO in Malawi

Economics

UNICEF cuts off funding to nonprofit linked to alleged cult in wake of investigative report.UNICEF cuts off funding to nonprofit linked to alleged cult in wake of investigative report.