Africa

Blood samples of people living with HIV in a laboratory at the AIDS Research Center in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Price Of HIV Test Falls, Raising Hopes In Global AIDS Fight

3:34pm July 31, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

A new financing deal aims to slash the cost of HIV viral load testing in low- and middle-income countries. Public health officials say it's a crucial step to ending the AIDS epidemic.

World News

Zimbabwe Holds First Elections Since Ousting Of Robert Mugabe

11:12pm July 30, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

Zimbabwe held its first elections since the ouster of longtime ruler Robert Mugabe on Monday. The vote went smoothly and people hope the peace will continue as results come in.

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A South African court has overturned diplomatic immunity for former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe, shown here at a 2017 rally.

World News

South Africa Overturns Diplomatic Immunity For Grace Mugabe

5:46pm July 30, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

A South African court has overturned a government decision to grant immunity to the former first lady of Zimbabwe over her alleged assault of a South African model with an extension cord.

Nigerian anti-trafficking activist Blessing Okoedion at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., in June.

A Victim Of Sex Trafficking, Blessing Okoedion Now Works To Save Others

1:52pm July 30, 2018

by Courtney Columbus

The Nigerian activist was honored by the U.S. State Department in June for her efforts to combat human trafficking in Italy and Nigeria.

Morning News Brief

5:37am July 30, 2018

Trump threatens a government shutdown if he doesn't get a border wall. Also his latest feud with The New York Times goes public. And, Zimbabwe holds its first elections since Robert Mugabe's ouster.

Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe holds a press briefing at his residence on Sunday, on the eve of the country's elections.

World News

On Eve Of Zimbabwe's Vote, Robert Mugabe Says He Won't Support His Old Party

8:03pm July 29, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

The nation's former ruler hinted he would vote for the leader of the opposition movement, telling reporters on Sunday, "I cannot vote for those who have tormented me."

Sidumiso Nyoni, 30, took the train from her home in rural Nyamandhlovu, Zimbabwe, to the industrial city of Bulawayo to visit family. "The train doesn't have a specific time at which it comes," she says.

Zimbabwe's Rickety Trains Get A Boost From Expat Investors Next Door

6:46pm July 29, 2018

Zimbabweans living in neighboring South Africa are injecting capital into a railway revamp — but much more is needed to get the country back on its feet.

Politics & Government

Zimbabwe Freedom Anthem Loses Its Meaning

5:33pm July 29, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

Last year a song about freedom became a rallying cry as Zimbabwe unseated longtime president Robert Mugabe. Now the anthem has become tainted by the lack of tangible change for people there.

World News

All Eyes In Zimbabwe On Nelson Chamisa

8:02am July 29, 2018

Zimbabwe is holding its first elections since the ouster of President Robert Mugabe. The main challenger to his ruling party is a candidate who was barely born at the beginning of Mugabe's rule.

African migrants climb over a metal fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Since the early 1990s, Spain has built 20-foot-tall, layered border fences around its two North African enclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, to help dissuade migran

World News

Opinion: The EU Looks To Offshore Its Migrant Crisis. That's A Horrifying Prospect

8:02am July 29, 2018

by Isabella Alexander

European leaders are looking to set up migrant holding sites outside the EU, following a controversial Australian precedent, writes an anthropologist who researches migration in North Africa.