Africa

Four people in yellow hazmat suits and masks stand on grass, with one person in blue protective gear assisting.
Health & Medicine
Ebola spread challenges global preparedness
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Two people stand with a white horse in a calm lake, surrounded by rolling hills under a blue sky.
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: The music of animal husbandry
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A man in religious attire stands at the top of airplane stairs, with Vatican and Cameroon flags visible above.
Religion
On Africa trip, Pope Leo XIV condemns war and brushes off Trump criticism
A person wearing a hat and backpack stands at the end of a narrow, brick tunnel, which appears part of an ancient ruin, with rocky terrain visible outside.
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Is the world closing its doors?
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Health & Medicine
PEPFAR and the future of the global fight against HIV
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Conflict & Justice
US brokers peace deal between DRC and Rwanda
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COVID-19
Here’s what to know about the new COVID variant ‘razor blade throat’
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Health & Medicine
US foreign aid freeze wreaks havoc for HIV treatment in Africa
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Business, Economics and Jobs
Motorcycle taxis are increasingly being driven by women in Uganda
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Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Food to power a walk around the world
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Sports
Eritrean cyclist makes Tour de France history
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History
Juneteenth offers a ‘window into the complexity’ of US history with slavery, says author
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Business, Economics and Jobs
‘We are struggling’: Malawi’s farmers hit hard by fertilizer prices
4:26
Conflict
Journalist says parts of Sudan’s capital are now ‘almost unrecognizable’
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Makaa or charcoal is often used in cooking methods in Kenya and other countries in Africa.
Energy
The push to end harmful cooking methods worldwide
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"And this shall also pass II," by Nigerian artist Ngozi-Omeje Ezema, 2022, work from Kó gallery in Lagos, Nigeria.
Arts, Culture & Media
After decades of being overlooked, African art gets its moment
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International students in the US face many challenges as they adjust to new cultural norms.
Sacred Nation
Chaplains open doors for international students on campus
5:59
Frantz Fanon sitting at a table during a press conference
Arts, Culture & Media
New book explores the life of psychiatrist and writer Frantz Fanon
Black woman performing on stage in white dress
Planet Hip Hop
Women rap artists a driving force as hip-hop turns 50
A health worker checks a man's temperature during door to door screening in an attempt to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Jika Joe informal settlement in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, April 16, 2020.
Economics
Policymakers rush to stave off economic collapse on the African continent
President Trump caused headlines after referring to group of Latino immigrants as "animals" on Wednesday. He said he was only referring to members of the gang MS-13.
Conflict & Justice
President Trump’s ‘animals’ comment points to a dark history of using dehumanizing language
Bulldozers level sand dredged from the sea at the "Colombo Port City" construction site
Economics
China is working on the largest infrastructure endeavor in human history
Morning rush-hour traffic in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Economics
Driving in some cities is a blood sport. Can autonomous cars compete?
Kadidia Ouattara moto
Health
A revolutionary genetic experiment is coming to rural Burkina Faso
Health
The pros and cons of ‘gene drives’
Bring back our girls red carpet
Conflict
#BringBackOurGirls was a mistake
Yemen famine child
Conflict
The worst humanitarian crisis in decades is happening right now
South Sudan famine
Conflict
South Sudan declares famine; aid groups lament ‘man-made’ tragedy
South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar, at right, and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir exchange signed peace agreement documents in Addis Ababa in May 2014.
Conflict
South Sudan president calls for ‘national dialogue’ to end civil war
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Books
The story of the online, pan-African Magunga Bookstore
Trump and sons
Global Politics
Comics might want to hold back on the ‘Trump is a dictator’ bit
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Culture
How the Swahili language took hold across Africa, and beyond
Kouthia, left, in character as Donald Trump visiting a Senegalese shaman.
Arts
Kouthia, a comedian in Dakar, is impersonating Donald Trump for Senegalese audiences
Protesters carry placards as they take part in a 'Zuma must fall' demonstration in Pretoria, South Africa December 16, 2015.
Justice
The real results of South Africa’s hashtag campaigns
An ambulance transporting an Ebola patient drives to the entrance of a treatment centre outside Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Health
An American aid worker with Ebola receives speedy care, while a Sierra Leonean colleague is ‘left behind’
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Music
This male rapper in Burkina Faso is trying to help stop female genital mutilation
A Chadian soldier during a battle against insurgent group Boko Haram in Gambaru, Nigeria, February 26th 2015. Gambaru lies on the border with Cameroon.
Conflict
Nations launch an international campaign against Boko Haram, as it pledges allegiance to ISIS
A baby looks out of a box at an outdoor market in Devils Hole, Sierra Leone. A new report suggests Ebola has created 12,000 orphans in the West African country.
Health
Armies of student volunteers are key to Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola
As the Ebola epidemic peaks, new challenges are emerging in Liberia
Health
Now that Ebola is subsiding, the question is what to do with contaminated sewage
Hugh Masekela and Vusi Mahlasela on stage October 14, 2014, at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Music
‘The Voice’ of South Africa celebrates 20 years of freedom
A Libyan student stands with newly received textbooks in Benghazi on January 18, 2012.
Education
Kids in Libya have been out of school for months, so this woman is bringing the classroom to them
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Culture
This Egyptian singer says forgive, don’t hate
Islam Yaken dreamed of a career as a fitness instructor
Conflict
How an ordinary Egyptian kid became an ISIS fighter
Revelers from the Beija Flor samba school participate in the annual Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome on February 17, 2015.
Culture
Why Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival may have danced to the beat of a dictator
An Islamic State fighter gestures from a vehicle in the countryside of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after the Islamic State fighters took control of the area in October.
Conflict
The so-called Islamic State looks bleak to outsiders, but supporters see it as ‘liberating’
An armed motorcade belonging to members of Derna's Islamic Youth Council, consisting of former members of militias from the town of Derna, drive along a road in Derna, eastern Libya October 3, 2014.
Conflict
This man got a glimpse of life under ISIS control — in Libya
Culture
One woman challenges perceptions of Somalia one Instagram post at a time
Men in orange jumpsuits purported to be Egyptian Christians held captive by the Islamic State (IS) are marched by armed men along a beach said to be near Tripoli, in this still image from an undated video made available on social media on February 15, 201
Conflict
Italy is seeking UN intervention in Libya after jihadist terror threat
Men in orange jumpsuits believed to be Egyptian Christians were held captive by the Islamic State and murdered in Libya.
Conflict
ISIS spreads its tentacles to North Africa — and threatens to reach beyond
A man calms his wife, both of whom are relatives of Egyptian Coptic men killed in Libya, as she mourns outside one of their houses in El-Our village, in Minya goverorate, south of Cairo February 16, 2015.
Conflict
Coptic Christians are outraged by brutal ISIS beheadings in Libya
Student at Gibson High School in Monrovia, Deborah Natt,16, is smiling to be back at school. At every entrance there is a handwashing station.
Health
As Ebola loosens grip, Liberia’s schools begin re-opening
A young boy in Ethiopia cries as he gets a measles vaccination
Health
A Nigerian satirist takes a sobering approach to measles, Ebola
A girl receives anti-measles vaccination drops in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Mass national vaccination campaigns against measles and polio are common in much of the developing world.
Health
A Nigerian writer mocks US disease concern, saying that Africa should screen Americans for measles
A family that escaped Boko Haram attacks in both Michika and Cameroon seek shelter in an uncompleted house in Adamawa on January 31, 2015.
Conflict
As Boko Haram broadens its war, the group’s massacres become a regional problem
Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo arrives at the Athletics Kenya headquarters after failing a doping test, in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 15, 2015.
Sports
The ‘Queen of the Marathon’ doped her way to victory
At Redemption Hospital in Liberia, health workers screen patients for Ebola at the entrance to the facility, cleaning them off with a chlorine solution, taking their temperature and asking a series of questions. "At our hospital we have tried to create a
Health
Ebola is creating a new epidemic of untreated illness and injury
Music
‘I Have No Everything Here.’ From an overcrowded prison in Malawi, moving music
Relatives, friends and residents of Alexandria mourn during the funeral of Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, an activist at the Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPAP), in Alexandria January 25, 2015.
Conflict
Death of young woman in Egypt sparks anger
Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic continues to claim lives
Health
Ebola is leaving a new generation of orphans
Emmanuel Mudiay drives to the hoop during a high school game for Prime Academy in Texas. Mudiay is now playing in China and making seven figures instead of playing in college.
Sports
China, not college, could be the next finishing school for top NBA prospects