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Women fleeing Sudan’s El Fasher face a new battle: To keep their families safeTens of thousands fled the Sudanese city of El Fasher after it fell to a paramilitary group, leaving many families hungry and separated.
In Nigeria, a ‘soccer sister’ steers teen boys away from gangsFormer soccer player Hidaa Ahmad Ghaddar is fighting gang violence in her hometown, Kano, Nigeria, by getting boys off the streets and onto the pitch.
Trump says Nigeria’s Christians are persecuted. The reality is more complex.Donald Trump frames militant insurgencies in Nigeria as targeted campaigns against the country’s Christians. The true situation is more complex.
South Africa aspired to be a nonracial democracy. Can it revive that goal?Thirty years after it scrapped racial segregation, South Africa seeks to recover a founding story that inspired ideas of liberation and freedom.
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Why the world is watching Darfur again, 20 years laterThe fall of El Fasher in western Sudan to a paramilitary force underscores the difficulties of ending the country’s devastating civil war.
As jihadis advance in Mali, community radio stations broadcast hopeCommunity radio stations in northern Mali are threatened by both jihadis and government censorship. But local journalists fight to keep them alive.
Their houses are being swept into the sea. Why many Senegalese won’t leave.Rising sea levels are eroding Senegal’s shorelines, leaving communities and the country’s government scrambling to cope with the implications.
Why youth voter apathy in Ivory Coast isn’t a rejection of democracyAs Ivory Coast’s Oct. 25 presidential election approaches, many young people here say they are cynical about the possibility of political change.
What’s at stake in Tanzania’s election as authoritarianism rises in East AfricaHaving barred her major rivals from the polls, Tanzania's current president will run virtually unopposed in the Oct. 29 general election.
Madagascar’s president is said to have fled country amid coupAn opposition lawmaker said Madagascar’s president had fled the country after warning of an attempt to “seize power illegally.”
Nigeria is Africa’s biggest oil producer. Its citizens eye a different future.Africans are rapidly taking up solar power, a grassroots transformation led by individuals and businesses, rather than governments or power companies.
First Nepal, then Madagascar, now Morocco. Gen Z puts pressure on governments.Young people from Peru to Indonesia are using social media to organize Gen Z protests that have toppled two governments. How far will the wave spread?
In Boko Haram’s shadow, a Nigerian perfume-making tradition lives onFor centuries, women in northern Nigeria have worn a smoky fragrance called gabgab. But now the Boko Haram insurgency has put its future at risk.
Liberia’s government wants to ban FGM. Many of its women don’t.Activists in Liberia want to end female genital mutilation there. But first, they need to get the buy-in of those who practice it.
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