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Violence in eastern Congo has displaced millions of people. Some end up at this camp

4:54pm April 01, 2024

The Nkamira Transit Camp is home to more than 6,000 refugees fleeing violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The decades-long conflict is a legacy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

South Africans have had to line up for water as the country's largest city, Johannesburg, confronts a collapse of its water system affecting millions of people.

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Johannesburg's water crisis is the latest blow to South Africa's 'world-class city'

5:00am April 01, 2024

by Kate Bartlett

It bills itself as a "world-class African city" but these days residents say it's anything but — with the collapse of the water system and frequent power outages.

In Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, oil bunkering — the practice of siphoning oil from pipelines — has transformed parts of the once-thriving delta ecosystem into an ecological dead zone, according to the U.N. Environment Programme.

Mercy me: Photos show what humans have done to the planet in the Anthropocene age

9:31pm March 29, 2024

Anthropocene refers to the age of humans — the things we've done to Earth. Geologists just rejected a proposal to declare an official "Anthropocene epoch." But everyone agrees: Damage has been done.

In this image taken from video provided by eNCA, a bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in Limpopo, South Africa, on Thursday killing multiple people, authorities said.

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A bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people

8:15pm March 28, 2024

by The Associated Press

An 8-year-old child is only survivor. The passengers were headed to an Easter festival before the bus plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames.

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A preview of NPR's reporting from Rwanda as it nears 30 years since genocide

4:50pm March 28, 2024

Thirty years ago, Rwanda experienced one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. NPR's Juana Summers reports from Rwanda about how the country has changed in the years since.

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The palms of a patient with mpox during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox — with a strain that is deadlier than the one that sparked the global outbreak in 2022.

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Why the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is worrying disease docs

5:00am March 27, 2024

by Gabrielle Emanuel

With a dramatic jump in cases — and a strain of mpox that is deadlier than the virus that went global in 2022 — specialists are scrambling to reign it in.

Supporters of presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye gather outside his campaign headquarters, in Dakar, Senegal.

Little-known opposition leader in Senegal is named the next president

11:26am March 26, 2024

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

Senegal's president elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was elected by a landslide, only weeks after leaving prison. He is now set to be one of Africa's youngest leaders.

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Kidnapping for ransom is a leading security challenge in Nigeria

5:15am March 25, 2024

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

The story of one Nigerian family's kidnapping ordeal, as abductions for ransom spiral out of control in the West African country.

Parents wait for news about the kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga students in Kuriga, Kaduna, Nigeria, on March 9, 2024. Nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state have been released, the state governor said Sunday, March 24, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school.

Nearly 300 abducted Nigerian schoolchildren freed after over two weeks in captivity

12:14pm March 24, 2024

by The Associated Press

Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests.

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After delays and protests, people in Senegal voters finally go to the polls

7:59am March 24, 2024

People in Senegal will finally have the chance to vote March 24. The country's president postponed elections last month.