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Norwegian Nobel Committee Announces 2018 Peace Prize Winner

6:15am October 05, 2018

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad have been named winners of the prize. The committee praised them for being symbols in the fight to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.

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F talks to her children while they visit her in prison, where she awaits her verdict on charges of infanticide.

Health & Safety

Why Infanticide Is A Problem In Senegal

4:38pm October 03, 2018

It is the second-most common reason women are in jail in Senegal.

Moroccan King Mohammed VI and Li Biao, chairman of the Chinese Haite Group, are at the center of the launch of a Chinese investment project in Morocco, in March 2017.

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Will Morocco's Chinese-Funded 'Tech City' Ever Break Ground?

2:12pm October 03, 2018

The Mohammed VI Tangier Tech City would stand in monument to China's expansion into a North African nation on Europe's doorstep. But experts say the project has stalled.

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Honor guards attend a flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square in 2017. Under President Xi Jinping, China has ambitiously pressed its advantage almost everywhere at once.

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China Unbound: What An Emboldened China Means For The World

3:43pm October 02, 2018

by William Dobson

China has definitely risen. NPR's correspondents set out to find out what that entails, reporting from more than a dozen countries across the globe.

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Melania Trump handed out blankets and made faces at babies at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital in Accra.

Politics & Government

Melania Trump Arrives In Ghana, Starting First Solo Foreign Trip

3:29pm October 02, 2018

by Tamara Keith

The first lady was greeted by dancers, drummers, children waving flags and the first lady of Ghana, getting red-carpet treatment on her first trip overseas without the president.

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Ugandans Use Character From TV Ad To Criticize President Museveni

6:01am October 01, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

The president has ruled the East African country for more than 3 decades. Dissent is barely tolerated. Ugandans are expressing their contempt by comparing him to a country bumpkin featured in a TV ad.

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Students at the Dhow Countries Music Academy, dedicated to preserving the music known as "taarab," play on a balcony overlooking Zanzibar's port.

The Hot New Musical Trend In Zanzibar Is From The '80s — The 1880s

3:53pm September 29, 2018

by Amy Yee

The traditional music known as taarab was fading away — until a school began giving lessons to aspiring musicians.

OluTimehin Adegbeye: How Can Cities Make Space For Their Most Vulnerable Residents?

12:52pm September 28, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

OluTimehin Adegbeye says that in the world's megacities, the most vulnerable get left behind — including in her city, Lagos. But it's these people, she says, that most deserve space in modern cities.

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From left: Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu and actors Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva at the Cannes Film Festival.

'Rafiki': The Lesbian Love Story That Kenya Banned And Then Unbanned

12:26pm September 28, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

In the hopes of becoming an Oscar contender, the Kenyan film board allowed the movie to play in Nairobi for a week. Director Wanuri Kahiu sees it as the beginning of a fight for freedom of expression.

An artist's reconstruction of Ledumahadi mafube, which means "a giant thunderclap at dawn," foraging during the early Jurassic in South Africa.

Bones Reveal The Brontosaurus Had An Older, Massive Cousin In South Africa

9:32pm September 27, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

The scientists think when this new dinosaur was alive, it was the largest creature ever to have walked the Earth. And unlike the lumbering creatures that came later, it could pop up on its hind legs.

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