Africa

Nigel Ndlovu, a filmmaker and independent candidate for Zimbabwe's parliament in this month's elections, was a judge for the competition. "Being Zimbabwean right now, it means freedom, it means speaking out against injustices," he says.

'Free But Not Free': Zimbabwe's Amateur Filmmakers Turn A Lens On Their Country

9:00am July 14, 2018

For a contest after the ouster of Robert Mugabe, filmmakers responded to the question "What does it mean to be Zimbabwean?" Their short films featured some uncomfortable answers.

Eight critically endangered black rhinos died following an attempt to move them from Kenya's capital, Nairobi, to a national park hundreds of kilometers away.

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Critically Endangered Black Rhinos Die After Transportation To Kenya National Park

7:13pm July 13, 2018

by Shannon Van Sant

Eight rhinos died after being relocated to a wildlife reserve in Kenya. Officials and conservationists say the death toll is unprecedented in their efforts to save the animal from extinction.

A public telephone booth in Asmara, Eritrea. Ethiopians and Eritreans are calling each other this week as phone lines that had been dormant for decades came to life.

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'I Am Calling Randomly To Say Hi': Eritreans, Ethiopians Phone Each Other Amid Thaw

12:44am July 13, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

As Ethiopia and Eritrea declared peace, long-dead phone lines came alive. People spoke with relatives and strangers. "We will be family," an Eritrean told an Ethiopian who randomly dialed him.

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Shennel E.P. Henries, a 19-year-old Liberian member of Girl Up, decided to become an activist when she was around 5,

The Dreams Of Today's Teen Girl Activists

3:25pm July 12, 2018

by Sara Kiley Watson

The young leaders of Girl Up were in Washington, D.C., this week to network and to lobby Congress on gender issues.

Tens of thousands of people live in villages on the edge of the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor rainforest in Madagascar. A government policy now bans cutting down trees to get more land for farming.

Is What's Good For The Lemurs Also Good For The Locals?

2:02pm July 11, 2018

by Paul Chisholm

To protect the ecosystem and its critters, Madagascar made it illegal to cut down rainforest land for agriculture — and promised to give farmers a new way to earn a living. How did that work out?

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Ethiopia And Eritrea Declare End Of War

8:34pm July 09, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

Ethiopia and Eritrea formally restored relations today, 20 years after a border war killed an estimated 80,000 people. The restoration of ties ends a cold war that separated neighbors and families.

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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, background, is welcomed by Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki as he disembarks a plane on Sunday in Asmara, Eritrea.

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Ethiopia And Eritrea Have Been In Conflict For 20 Years. Today, Their Leaders Hugged

3:36pm July 08, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

As the Ethiopian prime minister walked off the plane in Eritrea, he smiled and gave a big hug to Eritrea's authoritarian ruler. It's a sign of a rapid thaw in the tensions between the two countries.

Ville Fantome. This construction has the largest footprint of the artist's cityscape dioramas. The skyscrapers represent different countries. For instance, the gold-and-silver tower is emblazoned with USA.

The Joyful Cities Of Bodys Isek Kingelez

7:00am July 08, 2018

by Diane Cole

Using everything from soda cans to matchboxes, the Congolese artist crafted utopian dioramas, now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Women grieve as the coffin of one of the 24 migrants who drowned while trying to reach Italy, is buried in Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery on the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, on April 23, 2015. The migrants died as a smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds

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'I Do This For The Families': The Daunting Task Of Identifying Missing Migrants

5:55pm July 07, 2018

by Joanna Kakissis

The International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague has identified remains of 18,000 people in the Balkans. Its new challenge: to I.D. the remains of migrants who died trying to reach Europe.

Soumana Saley, a leather craftsman from Niger.

Arts

The Secrets And Dreams Of A Leather Craftsman

7:00am July 07, 2018

by Marc Silver

When he was 11 years old, Soumana Saley had never been to school — but he knew what he wanted to do with his life.