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    Coronavirus Updates
    A volunteer receives a shot as part of a COVID-19 vaccine trial at Soweto's Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 30, 2020.
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    'Until Everyone Is Safe, No One Is Safe': Africa Awaits The COVID-19 Vaccine

    Jan 22, 2021
    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former president of Liberia, says much of Africa may be left out until 2022. "We don't have the resources. It's as simple as that," she says.
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    Cloe Shasha Brooks: The Search For Big Ideas

    Jan 22, 2021
    Anyone from anywhere can give a TED Talk. This hour, we're joined by curator Cloe Shasha Brooks, who leads a massive search each year to discover brilliant speakers who often fly under the radar.
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    Adult hookworms, from a dog. The larva, which penetrate the skin, are even smaller.
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    Why It Can Be Harder To Fight Hookworms In Alabama Than In Argentina

    Jan 22, 2021
    The wriggling parasites are a scourge around the world. And in some ways, other countries are better at fighting them than the U.S. But a new effort in the rural South shows promise.
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    Workers check oxygen tanks at a hospital in Manaus, Brazil. Severe oxygen shortages as a second coronavirus wave is surging have prompted local authorities to airlift patients to other parts of Brazil.
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    Reinfections More Likely With New Coronavirus Variants, Evidence Suggests

    Jan 21, 2021
    The variant in Brazil is causing a surge in Manaus, a city where the virus previously infected huge numbers in the spring of 2020. Researchers are trying to determine why.
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    Africa
    A man holds a desert locust in his hand in Kenya's Rift Valley. Farmers in central Kenya fear the locusts will strip vegetation from the rangeland where their livestock graze.
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    Locust Swarms Threaten Parts Of East Africa

    Jan 19, 2021
    Swarms of locusts have reached dangerous levels in parts of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. They're reproducing rapidly in part because of unusual rainfall patterns.
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    Africa

    Uganda's Longtime President Facing Contest For Latest Re-Election

    Jan 16, 2021
    In Uganda, a presidential election campaign was marred by violence against protesters and the opposition.
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    Ugandan election commission officials count ballots after the polls closed at a polling station in Kampala on Thursday.
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    Uganda Election: President Yoweri Museveni Declared Winner As Bobi Wine Alleges Fraud

    Jan 16, 2021
    Uganda's electoral commission says Museveni has won a sixth term in office, but Wine is saying the election was rigged, and the top U.S. diplomat to Africa is calling the vote "fundamentally flawed."
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    World

    Uganda's President Fends Off Opposition In Contested Election

    Jan 15, 2021
    Ugandan opposition candidate Bobi Wine faced longtime President Yoweri Museveni in yesterday's election, official results are expected on Saturday.
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    Uganda Election Pits President Museveni Against Novice Politician

    Jan 14, 2021
    Ugandans voters on Thursday are deciding between a man who has been in power for more than three decades and a singer turned politician who has galvanized the youth in the East African country.
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    Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has been in power since 1986. His police chief has warned that anyone causing trouble on election day "will regret being born." Museveni is facing a formidable electoral challenge from Bobi Wine, who has been arrested m
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    Uganda's Ruler Museveni Defends Violent Crackdown In Bid For 6th Term

    Jan 12, 2021
    President Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, spoke to NPR ahead of Thursday's election. His main challenger, Bobi Wine, said Tuesday the military had killed his driver and his home had been raided.
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    The question of what to call the "developing world" is a developing debate.
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    Memo To People Of Earth: 'Third World' Is An Offensive Term!

    Jan 08, 2021
    TV correspondents and pundits spoke it, Twitter users typed it. They said the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was what happens in "Third World" countries. There's a problem with that.
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    Africa

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Signs Massive Loan Deal With Sudan

    Jan 06, 2021
    Sudan has taken another step to shed its past as a pariah state, two years after the country's longtime leader was ousted. And on Wednesday, the country got a big boost from the Trump administration.
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    Goats and Soda
    Students rehearse a poem that they will recite at an event advocating against female genital mutilation at the Imbirikani Girls High School in Kenya.
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    Is The Pandemic Causing A Surge In Female Genital Mutilation?

    Jan 05, 2021
    Kenya's president pledged to stamp out the practice by 2022. But since the pandemic began, activists say more girls are being cut — and married off afterward.
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    Our Favorite Global TikToks Of 2020: From A Handwashing Dance To A Literal Ice Box

    Jan 01, 2021
    As the clock ticks farewell to a terrible, horrible, very bad year, TikTok brought moments of joy. Here's what ticked the boxes for TikTok devotees.
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    World
    Health workers from Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China, share an emotional embrace with their peers from a hospital in Jilin province at the Tianhe Airport. Colleagues who worked on the front lines together bid farewell as Wuhan lifted its coronavirus lockd
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    International Stories You Loved In 2020

    Dec 31, 2020
    The coronavirus, the rescue of an abused elephant, harassment of Black diplomats and the hunt for Nazi-looted instruments are some of the subjects of the year's most popular NPR international stories.
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    Race
    Members of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) protest against the death of George Floyd outside U.S. Consulate in solidarity with Black Lives Matter movement on June 8, 2020 in Sandton, South Africa.
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    In 2020, Protests Spread Across The Globe With A Similar Message: Black Lives Matter

    Dec 30, 2020
    Journalists based in Colombia, South Africa and Indonesia talk about how the Black Lives Matter movement inspired activists abroad this year.
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    A worker wearing personal protective equipment disinfects the Holy Redeemer Church in Bangkok after a Christmas Eve mass. Thailand is one of many countries now seeing a surge in cases.
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    Why The World Is Seeing Some Of Its Most Extreme Pandemic Lockdowns

    Dec 27, 2020
    Even as the European Union began vaccine rollouts on Sunday, nations around the globe are instituting severe lockdowns and travel restrictions. Fear of the U.K. variant is a key reason.
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    Patrick Phiri of Malawi and fiance Fiona ten Have of Holland kiss in her parents' garden. The couple met in Malawi, where they worked for the same charity, and fell in love. A 3-week visit to the Netherlands turned into 7 months due to pandemic lockdowns
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    COVID Love Story: Can A Malawian Bachelor And A Dutch Bachelorette Make It?

    Dec 27, 2020
    They met and fell in love while working for a nonprofit in his country. He came to visit her in the Netherlands. Because of the pandemic, his hometown visited lasted 7 months. Would love conquer all?
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    Goats and Soda
    The image depicts the coronavirus binding to a human cell. The variant identified in the United Kingdom has a mutation known to increase how tightly the virus binds to human cells.
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    How Worried Should We Be About The New U.K. Coronavirus Variant?

    Dec 24, 2020
    Mathematical modeling suggests that the mutations in this variant make the virus more transmissible. What does that mean for preventive measures — and the new vaccines?
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    11 Original NPR Comics That Brought Joy, Hope And Help During The Pandemic

    Dec 23, 2020
    In 2020, NPR created and published more than a dozen comics for the pandemic — everything from how to explain it to kids to how to help the older people in your life.
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    World

    How The Arab World Is Reacting To Accords With Israel

    Dec 21, 2020
    The Trump administration mediated deals for four Arab countries to recognize Israel. NPR correspondents who recently visited Sudan and the United Arab Emirates discuss reactions in the Arab world.
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    Scores Of Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolchildren Rescued

    Dec 20, 2020
    The children were rescued after being abducted on Saturday in the second mass kidnapping of schoolchildren in Nigeria's Katsina state in eight days.
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    Nigerian government officials say that more than 300 schoolboys, who had been abducted in an attack claimed by Boko Haram, have been freed.
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    'A Huge Relief': 344 Schoolboys Released After Abduction In Nigeria

    Dec 18, 2020
    Last week's attack, claimed by Boko Haram, recalled the Islamist group's abduction of 276 girls in 2014. Unlike that attack, though, this fraught chapter ended relatively quickly, and with happy news.
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    The Secret To Success? Having A Big Sister

    Dec 17, 2020
    A new study suggests big sisters have a powerful impact. (Sorry, big brothers, you don't make as much of a difference.) But there are also potential downsides for the sisters.
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    Dr. Chizoba Barbara Wonodi is director of Johns Hopkins University's International Vaccine Access Center for Nigeria.
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    Is Mass Vaccination The Best Strategy For All Countries? A Doctor's Surprising View

    Dec 14, 2020
    Dr. Chizoba Barbara Wonodi of Johns Hopkins University explains why a strategy to vaccinate everyone may not be the best approach to fighting the virus in lower-income countries such as Nigeria.

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