Africa
US brokers peace deal between DRC and Rwanda
Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal brokered by the Trump administration. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Michelle Gavin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former US ambassador to Botswana, about what the agreement means.
Juneteenth offers a ‘window into the complexity’ of US history with slavery, says author
June 19 commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the US. But the legacy of African enslavement continues to reverberate in much of the world. Howard French, the author of “Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War,” speaks with host Marco Werman about the persistent damage in West Africa and beyond.
Journalist says parts of Sudan’s capital are now ‘almost unrecognizable’
Foreign journalists have mostly been unable to gain access amid Sudan’s ongoing civil war. But New York Times Africa bureau chief Declan Walsh was able to travel across the country for several weeks and told The World what he saw on the ground.
The push to end harmful cooking methods worldwide
A third of the world’s population cooks with fuels that produce harmful fumes when burned. Breathing in the fine particles produced by cooking with wood, charcoal, coal, animal dung and agricultural waste can penetrate the lungs and cause multiple respiratory and cardiovascular problems, including cancer and strokes. Women and children are most at risk. Fifty countries gathered in Paris on Tuesday to raise funds to replace dangerous cooking with clean ones. Marco Werman speaks with Dymphna van der Lans, CEO of the Clean Cooking Alliance.