Africa

Women mourn the victims of a massacre allegedly perpetrated by Eritrean soldiers in the village of Dengelat, north of Mekele, the capital of Tigray.

World News

9 Things To Know About The Unfolding Crisis In Ethiopia's Tigray Region

12:12pm March 05, 2021

by Scott Neuman

For months, the conflict in Ethiopia between the Addis Ababa and a defiant regional government has costs thousands of lives and displaced at least a million people.

Dr. Raj Panjabi, the newly named head of the President's Malaria Initiative, treating patients during a visit to Liberia, where he was born and lived until 1990. He'll lead the effort to prevent and treat malaria around the world. Each year, some 400,000

New U.S. Malaria Czar: Why We Should Care About The Disease, Even In A Pandemic

5:51pm March 04, 2021

by Marc Silver

Did you even know the U.S. has a malaria czar? Who himself had malaria as a kid? We interview Dr. Raj Panjabi, newly appointed by President Joe Biden.

Ghana is the first country to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX program. Above: The vaccines are unloaded at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra on February 24.

Ghana Greets Historic Vaccine Delivery With A Dose Of Skepticism

3:35pm March 04, 2021

It's the first country to receive free vaccines from the COVAX program. But that shipment of 600,000 can't protect a nation of 30 million. And conspiracy theories about the vaccine are swirling.

An image from the book Bring Back Our Girls. The families of these missing girls sent photos of them to photographer Glenna Gordon.

Health & Safety

What The Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls Have To Tell Us

1:35pm March 03, 2021

by Diane Cole

Seven years after the kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls, a new book shares insights into their survival strategies — and looks at the mixed blessing of the 'Bring Back Our Girls" campaign.

A man stands in the deserted school dormitory after gunmen invaded and took away more than 270 girls in Jangebe in northwest Nigeria, on Feb. 26. The girls have all since been returned.

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Nigerian Schoolgirls Released After Armed Kidnapping

3:27am March 02, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The kidnapping of the 279 girls from their school last Friday is the latest in a string of similar incidents.

Thulja Hurkchand as a young woman and with her son Hitesh. She'd tell him, "Don't worry. It's going to be okay. I'm going to be okay." Yet in the face of the pandemic, he couldn't help but worry.

Health & Safety

A Race To Protect His Country — And His Mother

9:18pm February 28, 2021

by Nurith Aizenman

For this health expert based in Boston, the effort to get vaccines to his native South Africa was intensely personal.

Masuma Ahuja, author of Girlhood: Teenagers Around The World In Their Own Voices, set out to document girls' ordinary lives.

In 'Girlhood,' Teens Across The Globe Write About Their Everyday Lives

7:00am February 28, 2021

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

'Girlhood,' a collection of diary-style entries by teen girls, aims to bust stereotypes about cultures while revealing girls' everyday lives.

Abducted students of Government Science College Kagara sit in the state conference hall after being freed in Minna, Niger state, Nigeria, on Saturday.

World News

Dozens Of Kidnapped Nigerian Students Freed; Hundreds Of Others Still Missing

7:03pm February 27, 2021

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The students, who were taken from a school more than a week ago, say they were beaten by the kidnappers. Police are still looking for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped Friday.

School uniforms hang in the deserted dormitory of the Government Girls Science Secondary School at Jangede, Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria, where more than 300 students were kidnapped by gunmen early Friday, local time.

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Nigerian Authorities Searching For 317 Schoolgirls Kidnapped By 'Armed Bandits'

4:41pm February 26, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Police in the northwestern state of Zamfara said efforts are underway to trace the kidnappers and rescue the abducted students, who may have been moved to neighboring forests.

A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX global program arrived at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra on Wednesday, as Ghana received the group's first vaccine shipment.

Ghana Becomes First Country To Get COVAX Vaccine Doses

2:11pm February 24, 2021

by Bill Chappell

The shipments are the start of "what should be the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history," the WHO and UNICEF say.