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Africa is facing significant fuel shortages

May 15, 2022
Ayesha Rascoe talks with Kinley Salmon, Africa correspondent for The Economist, about the widespread fuel shortages affecting the continent.
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Goats and Soda
A health worker vaccinates a Kenyan child with the world's first malaria vaccine. Kenya has given at least one dose to 300,000 children so far.

First malaria vaccine hits 1 million dose milestone — although it has its shortcomings

May 13, 2022
The vaccine couldn't have come at a more critical time, with a surge in cases and deaths from malaria during the pandemic. But its efficacy — and its schedule — are far from ideal.
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Goats and Soda
People line up to get the Sinopharm vaccine in Harare, Zimbabwe. World leaders promised to speed up vaccine distribution to low- and middle-income countries at the White House's second Global COVID-19 Summit on May 12.

White House summit leads to big promises to fight COVID in needy countries

May 12, 2022
The second Global COVID-19 Summit aimed to refocus the world's attention on the pandemic. Here's what governments and members of the private and public sector pledged to do.
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Goats and Soda
President Joe Biden speaks at the virtual Global COVID-19 Summit on Sept. 22, 2021, in Washington, D.C. On May 12, the White House will host the second Global COVID-19 Summit.

5 big ideas for the White House's Global COVID Summit

May 11, 2022
We asked experts from around the world: What would they like to see on the agenda for this virtual event. Their ideas include fair pay for all health workers — and a makeover for foreign aid.
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World

A spying scandal and the fate of Western Sahara

May 11, 2022
Diplomatic relations between Spain and Morocco are tense after it was revealed that the phone of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had been hacked with the spyware Pegasus.
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Ukraine invasion — explained

The ripple effects of Russia's war in Ukraine are changing the world

May 10, 2022
Stores running out of cooking oil. Gas prices soaring. Farmers scrambling for fertilizer. Nations rethinking alliances. We zoom in on the war's seismic, far-reaching repercussions.
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Goats and Soda
CNN international anchor Zain Asher poses with her mother, Obiajulu Ejiofor. After losing her husband in a car crash, Ejiofor raised four children with strict and innovative practices — including, when Asher was a teenager, using scissors to cut the po

CNN's Zain Asher is grateful for her mom's tough love — even if it meant no TV

May 06, 2022
Asher's dad died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Her grief-stricken mother used strict and innovative methods to raise 4 kids. Asher honors her mom in the memoir Where the Children Take Us.
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World
An abortion-rights activist wears a mask with text that reads in Spanish "Legal Abortion" during a rally outside Congress as lawmakers debate a bill that would legalize abortion, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020.

As U.S. may restrict abortion, other nations are easing access

May 03, 2022
Recent legislative activities in countries show the U.S. risks being out of step with the progress that the rest of the world is making in protecting sexual and reproductive rights.
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Africa
Paul Rusesabagina, pictured in 2012, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on terrorism charges last September in Rwanda. His family is suing Rwanda for $400 million for kidnapping, torture and unlawful imprisonment.

Family of 'Hotel Rwanda' hero sues Rwandan government for kidnapping and torture

May 01, 2022
Paul Rusesabagina saved more than 1,200 people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The Rwandan government convicted him of terrorism in a trial that human rights groups call a sham.
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Goats and Soda
A child receives a polio vaccine in Kampala, Uganda, on Jan. 14, 2022.

Vaccine-derived polio is on the rise. A new vaccine aims to stop the spread

Apr 26, 2022
Countries in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia are counting more cases of vaccine-derived polio. One reason for this, say experts, is that vaccination efforts have lapsed during the pandemic.
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World
A man uses cooking oil to fry Mandazi, a type of fried bread, on a street in the low-income Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, April 20, 2022.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine heats up cooking oil prices in global squeeze

Apr 26, 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has further fueled already high food and energy costs, hitting the poorest people hardest.
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Africa

168 people were killed in violence in Darfur, Sudan, an aid group says

Apr 24, 2022
Tribal clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region killed 168 people, a local aid group said.
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Africa

Explosion at illegal oil refinery in Nigeria kills over 50

Apr 24, 2022
More than 50 people were killed and many injured when an explosion rocked an illegal oil refinery in southeastern Nigeria, state officials and police said Saturday.
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Goats and Soda
Masks are just one protective measure for these airline passengers arriving in Shanghai from Paris.

The mask mandate is off for U.S. travelers. In other countries it's definitely on

Apr 22, 2022
In China, for example, not only are masks required on planes but gloves are recommended — and passengers are urged not to touch their face during the flight. Here's what you'll find around the globe.
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Goats and Soda
Volunteers unload food aid in Chena, Ethiopia, one of many parts of the world where conflict has fueled hunger.

Ukraine crisis raises question: Does food aid go equally to 'Black and white lives'?

Apr 18, 2022
That's what Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization and others ask in the wake of the outpouring of money to help Ukrainian victims of the war amid record levels of global hunger.
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A woman and a man ride in a vintage car as hot air balloons float behind them in the region of Cappadocia, Turkey.

Sony photo winners: Computers on horseback, magnificent mountains, bathing elephants

Apr 16, 2022
The 2022 Sony World Photography Award-winners include a photo of a man in Argentina transporting computers on horseback and twin sisters at a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar.
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World
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, by the RNLI, following a small boat incident in the Channel, Thursday April 14, 2022.

U.K. plan to fly asylum-seekers to Rwanda draws outrage

Apr 15, 2022
Britain announced a deal with Rwanda on Thursday to send asylum-seekers thousands of miles to the East African country, which it said would deter people-smugglers, but has been called inhumane.
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Africa
A woman is seen through a damaged wall hanging her clothes on a makeshift washing line in Ntuzuma, outside of Durban, South Africa, on Wednesday. Flooding in South Africa's Durban area has taken killed at least 259.

Flooding kills at least 259 in South Africa

Apr 13, 2022
The death toll is expected to rise as search and rescue operations continue in South Africa's Durban area. The president blamed climate change for the flooding.
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Goats and Soda
Stand-up comic Akau Jambo, 25, remembers a fellow comedian saying, "Dang, I never knew people were laughing in South Sudan." Jambo is out to prove him wrong.

So a South Sudanese comic put on a comedy fest in a land of 'suffering.' How'd it go?

Apr 13, 2022
Akau Jambo just staged the first international comedy festival in a country that the U.N. calls a place of suffering. Talking about the role of laughter, he says, "Life doesn't stop – we keep living."
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Law
ICC prosecutors have charged Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, with 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Survivors react to the first-ever trial for war crimes in Darfur

Apr 12, 2022
Ali Kushayb has pleaded not guilty to 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection to atrocities committed in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Goats and Soda

Opinion: A jet flew by in Michigan. It reminded me that wartime trauma is hard to heal

Apr 10, 2022
Conflicts in Ethiopia, Ukraine and other countries cause psychological trauma that can last far beyond any ceasefire. An Ethiopian-born mental health epidemiologist shares her insights.
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Goats and Soda
South African actress Khanyi Mbau, one of the stars of Netflix's new original reality show set in Africa, <em>Young, Famous & African. </em>

Opinion: 5 Things I'd change about Netflix's 'Young, Famous & African'

Apr 05, 2022
If Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor could have a hand in creating another season of the reality show, he'd ditch the 'Real Housewives' drama and get the cast to talk about COVID vaccines.
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Architecture

Pritzer winner Diébédo Francis Kéré makes buildings to serve West African community

Mar 19, 2022
NPR's Michel Martin talks to Diébédo Francis Kéré, the first African to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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Goats and Soda
Mariana Vishegirskaya stands outside a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9. Vishegirskaya later gave birth to a girl in another hospital in Mariupol.

Russia's strike on Ukraine maternity hospital is part of a terrible wartime tradition

Mar 16, 2022
The attack on the facility in Mariupol reflects an unfortunate trend in wars in Syria, Ethiopia and other countries. The impact on health care in the short-term and the long run is beyond devastating.
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Africa

Many African countries are staying neutral on Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Mar 15, 2022
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Aanu Adeoye of think tank Chatham House about African nations' responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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