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Children of about 6,000 ethnic Fulanis who have been displaced by attacks gather in a makeshift camp in Youba, Burkina Faso, in April 2020. The West African nation continues to be racked by violence linked to Islamic extremists and local defense militias

Unknown Militants Attacked A Burkina Faso Village And Killed More Than 160 People

Jun 07, 2021
The assault is the latest in a part of West Africa known as the Sahel, which has seen years of instability brought on by political coups and Islamist assaults on security forces and civilians.
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Goats and Soda
Claude Mabowa, pictured in 2019, is an Ebola survivor from Congo who lost family members to the virus.

Ebola Never Went Away. But Now There's A Drug To Treat It

Oct 20, 2020
Regeneron — the pharmaceutical company developing COVID-19 treatments — has received FDA approval for the first drug aimed at another infectious disease that's been in the headlines.
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Science
An artist's rendering of DNA. Scientists have found traces of DNA that they say is evidence that prehistoric humans procreated with an unknown hominin group in West Africa.

'Ghost' DNA In West Africans Complicates Story Of Human Origins

Feb 12, 2020
Modern genomes from Nigeria and Sierra Leone show signals that scientists call "ghost" DNA — from an unknown human ancestor. That means that prehistoric humans likely procreated with an unknown group.
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Goats and Soda
Fatou "Toufah" Jallow says she was raped by former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh. She now lives in Canada but returned home to testify before the nation's Truth Commission.

Beauty Queen's Rape Allegation Against Former Gambia President Sparks #MeToo Movement

Nov 04, 2019
Last week's testimony before Gambia's Truth Commission riveted the country and described a culture of systematic sexual abuse in the presidential palace.
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Goats and Soda
Prince Charles speaks with a guest at an event in Lagos, Nigeria, where he delivered a speech using phrases in pidgin English.

Why Prince Charles Said 'God Don Butta My Bread!' In Nigeria

Nov 20, 2018
This month, he visited Lagos and greeted the crowd with a few phrases in pidgin English. What was the local reaction?
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Code Switch
Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Va., 1619.

Ready For A Linguistic Controversy? Say 'Mmhmm'

Aug 17, 2018
Mmhmm is a small word that's often used unconsciously. But it can actually tell us a lot about language, bias and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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Goats and Soda
Chef Dadisi Olutosin makes collard greens, a beloved staple of the American South — but with a Caribbean-West African twist.

Cooking Collard Greens With A West African And Caribbean Twist

Jul 13, 2017
It's a dish that Dadisi Olutosin ate as a kid in Atlanta. As an adult he discovered its international roots and came up with a recipe that's true to his mother — and the culinary heritage of collards.
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Goats and Soda
Cattle owned by Fulani herdsmen graze in a field outside Kaduna, northwest Nigeria in February 2017.

Clashes Over Grazing Land In Nigeria Threaten Nomadic Herding

Apr 23, 2017
Nomadic herders who live across West Africa are having to travel further and further south for their cows to graze. Some are letting cows graze on cropland, leading to deadly conflicts with farmers.
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The Salt
Sacks of cocoa beans at a warehouse in San Pedro. Coffee and Cocoa Council is the government regulator of the Ivory Coast's cocoa industry.

A Dip In Global Prices Creates Cocoa Crisis For Ivory Coast's Farmers

Mar 03, 2017
Ivory coast is the world's largest cocoa producer. But a bumper crop combined with a fall in the global demand for chocolate and a dip in cocoa prices are hurting the country's cocoa farmers.
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The Two-Way
The real U.S. Embassy in Accra.

Fake U.S. Embassy In Ghana Operated For A Decade, State Department Says

Dec 05, 2016
Turkish and Ghanaian organized crime rings are said to have issued legitimate and counterfeit visas for $6,000 to people from across West Africa. They bribed corrupt officials to look the other way.
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Goats and Soda
A worker stands near dividers intended to separate patients in an Ebola treatment facility under construction in the Port Loko district of Sierra Leone in 2014.

What If You Had Ebola And Didn't Even Know It?

Nov 15, 2016
Viruses can hit people in different ways, with symptoms ranging from minimal to severe. A doctor wanted to know if that was true for Ebola as well.
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Goats and Soda
Omu Fahnbulleh stands over her husband after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious at an Ebola ward in Liberia in 2014.

Mutant Ebola May Have Caused Explosive Outbreak

Nov 03, 2016
Two studies show that Ebola virus mutated early in the West Africa outbreak, becoming much more infectious and thus able to kill more people.
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The Two-Way
Protesters set the National Assembly building in Libreville, Gabon, on fire after President Ali Bongo was declared the winner of last weekend's election.

Deadly Protests Shake Gabon After Allegations Of Election Fraud

Sep 01, 2016
After official results were announced showing the incumbent president had won, protesters called for a vote recount and set fire to parliament. The military retaliated, killing at least three people.
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Goats and Soda

Ebola Carriers? Why The Virus Keeps Coming Back

Apr 29, 2016
A country is declared Ebola-free. Then the virus flares up again. Doctors now know why.
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Africa
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy lays a wreath of flowers on March 18, 2016 in homage to the victims of a jihadist attack. Sarkozy was among several dignitaries to visit.

Ivory Coast Struggles To Keep Economy Afloat After Terror Attack

Mar 20, 2016
Ivory Coast's business community is shaken after a deadly al-Qaida attack on a beach resort. The West African nation's economy had been on the rebound after a civil war.
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Goats and Soda

Puzzling Proverbs: So Why Did The Goat Go Home After It Broke A Leg?

Feb 13, 2016
Ghana is a land of many sayings, often starring an animal. Only the meaning is not always clear. We turned to our correspondent on the ground for answers.
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Goats and Soda
When a country is declared Ebola-free — like Sierra Leone last November — the mood is upbeat. But that doesn't mean the virus is vanquished, as Sierra Leone learned this month.

Has The World Learned The Wrong Lessons From The Ebola Outbreak?

Jan 19, 2016
By focusing on the end of the epidemic, writes infectious disease specialist Nahid Bhadelia, we miss the larger point.
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The Two-Way
A unidentified family member (right) of a 10-year-old boy that contracted Ebola has her temperature measured by a health worker outside an Ebola clinic on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, on Nov. 20. Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have now gone 42 d

West Africa Is Finally Declared Ebola-Free — For Now

Jan 14, 2016
For the first time since the most recent Ebola outbreak began, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have each reported zero cases of Ebola for 42 days in a row. But the risk of small flare-ups remains.
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The Salt
Farmer Issiaka Ouedraogo walks past cocoa pods growing on a tree, on a cocoa farm outside the village of Fangolo, near Duekoue, Ivory Coast in May 2011.

Why The World Might Be Running Out Of Cocoa Farmers

Jul 03, 2015
West African cocoa farmers earn less than $1 a day. Those low wages could jeopardize the future of chocolate labor, as young farmers find better opportunities to earn a living, a new report warns.
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Goats and Soda
Back in July, the streets of Kailahun, Sierra Leone, were empty because of the Ebola crisis. Local shops and restaurants suffered from the lack of business.

As Ebola Cases Dwindle, West Africa Turns To Economic Recovery

Apr 17, 2015
International banks are promising nearly a billion dollars in aid to the three countries hardest hit by Ebola. The number of weekly cases has dropped below 40 — the lowest level since last May.
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Goats and Soda
The empty emergency and critical care area of Redemption Hospital in New Kru Town, Monrovia, Liberia.

As Ebola Crisis Ebbs, Aid Agencies Turn To Building Up Health Systems

Mar 23, 2015
After a year of Ebola, the virus is largely contained in Liberia. But an already-fragile health care system has been devastated, and crucially important health care workers have died.
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Parallels
The most recent propaganda videos from Boko Haram have higher production values than in the past and other similarities to ISIS-produced videos.

Boko Haram Takes A Page From ISIS Propaganda Playbook

Mar 05, 2015
The Nigerian Islamist militant group has traded grainy videos for slick productions. This week, Boko Haram posted a video purportedly showing the bodies of two beheaded men accused of spying.
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Goats and Soda
The view from the house where the author stays in Accra, Ghana. The buildings in the background are typically bright green and red, but a blanket of Harmattan haze has dulled their colors.

While New England Gets Snow, West Africa Gets Sand

Feb 28, 2015
A hot wind blows from the Sahara Desert across West Africa each winter. This year, the clouds of sand are so thick that flights are grounded, cocoa trees are suffering and everyone has a cough.
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Goats and Soda
Dr. Cedric Yoshimoto of Volcano, Hawaii, and Dr. Citlali Barba of Mexico City cared for both Edwin Koryan and his granddaughter Komasa at the Ebola treatment center run by Doctors Without Borders in Foya, Liberia.

The Grandpa Who Saved His Granddaughter From Ebola

Feb 17, 2015
Ebola is especially deadly for children and babies. About 80 percent of those infected have died. But one man knew instinctively that love and affection could make a difference.
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Goats and Soda
Nick van Praag of Ground Truth: "It's not that people [on the giving side] don't want to know what the beneficiary thinks, it's that they haven't really developed the tools to do so."

Billions Go To Victims Of Disaster And Disease. Does It Really Help?

Feb 08, 2015
Ground Truth is a new group with a simple yet revolutionary way of figuring out if disaster relief works: Ask the victims.

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