Africa

Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo is a social media personality. He's also the leader of the paramilitary group that attacked thousands of pro-democracy protesters on June 3, leaving more than a 100 dead.

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Why Facebook Won't Kick Off A Warlord

4:44pm June 26, 2019

by Aarti Shahani

Facebook banned far-right extremist Alex Jones. But it won't remove from the platform the warlord Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, even though he oversaw the killing of more than 100 people in Sudan.

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Ethiopian Security Forces Kill Alleged Mastermind Of Coup Attempt

6:52pm June 24, 2019

by Eyder Peralta

Ethiopian security forces killed the general accused of masterminding an attempted coup in a northern region. The attacks on Saturday killed five people, including the national army chief of staff.

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Health & Safety

They Thought This HIV Strategy Couldn't Work. But It Did

1:13pm June 24, 2019

by Joanne Silberner

An unprecedented five-year study aimed to find out whether the treatments to stop the spread of HIV in the West would work in sub-Saharan Africa.

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announces on television that an attempted coup occurred over the weekend.

Ethiopia Army Chief Killed In Attempted Coup, Government Says

5:06pm June 23, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

Two attacks have left at least four officials dead, authorities say. They accuse a brigadier general who was given amnesty and released from prison.

Health workers treat a patient at the Ebola Treatment Center in the city of Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's one of three locations where researchers have been conducting a clinical trial of four experimental treatments for the disease.

Health & Safety

Will 1 Of These 4 Experimental Treatments Cure Ebola?

3:05pm June 21, 2019

by Nurith Aizenman

A landmark study in Congo is very close to finding out. But there are some major obstacles that have nothing to do with science.

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25 Years After Apartheid Ended, South Africa's Land Rights Problem Is Boiling Over

5:47pm June 17, 2019

by Daniella Cheslow

South African leaders have promised to redress land rights in the country since the end of apartheid. But whites still own most of the land and those without are setting up homesteads.

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WHO Declines To Declare Ebola Outbreak A Public Health Emergency

5:34am June 17, 2019

NPR's Noel King talks to Deborah Malac, U.S. ambassador to Uganda, about the recent deaths there from Ebola. In neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo, the death toll is higher.

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Somalia's Foreign Minister Makes Appeal To Diaspora

8:03am June 16, 2019

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Ahmed Isse Awad, the foreign minister of Somalia, about his appeal to Somalis in the U.S. to come home and help Somalia rebuild.

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Sudan's Internet Outage

8:03am June 16, 2019

by Eyder Peralta

Sudanese authorities shut down the Internet around the same time that they violently broke up an opposition sit-in seeking civilian rule. The protesters are gone, but the Internet is still down.

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Kenyan army soldiers ride in a vehicle at their base in 2012. On Saturday, authorities in Kenya blamed Somali militant group al-Shabab for a blast that reportedly left 10 police officers dead.

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Kenya Police Blame Al-Shabab For Blast Near Somalia That Left Officers Dead

11:37am June 15, 2019

by Bobby Allyn

At least 10 officers were reportedly killed in the explosion Saturday morning local time. The officers were said to be pursuing extremists who had kidnapped police reservists.