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Members of the 3rd Special Forces Group, 2nd battalion salute the casket of U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson at his burial service in Hollywood, Florida, on Oct. 21. Johnson and three other U.S. soldiers were killed in an ambush in Niger on Oct. 4.

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Pentagon Niger Ambush Report Will Not Assign Blame For Soldiers' Deaths

7:01am May 09, 2018

by Tom Bowman

NPR has obtained details of the report, to be released Thursday, on the deaths of four American soldiers in Niger last October. The report identifies no single failure leading to their deaths.

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Stella Nyanzi arrives at the High Court in Kampala, Uganda, in April 2017. She had been jailed for "cyber-harassment" of the president.

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She Strips, She Swears, She Goes To Jail ... For The Good Of Her Country

2:43am May 09, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

Stella Nyanzi makes headlines in Uganda for protests about everything from corruption to sanitary pads. She's lost her job, landed in jail — and been brought to court to see if she's out of her mind.

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Thomas Mapfumo, holding a copy of a July 1984 edition of a magazine featuring his cover story. After 18 years in self-imposed exile, one of Zimbabwe's most popular and outspoken musicians, has returned home.

Thomas Mapfumo, 'Lion Of Zimbabwe,' Returns From Exile With Triumphant Homecoming

10:00pm May 07, 2018

by Banning Eyre

Mapfumo performed a homecoming show in the country last month, after spending over a decade-and-a-half in self-imposed exile.

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A quarter million Herero are estimated to live in Namibia today, with the population growing in recent years.

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Why The Herero Of Namibia Are Suing Germany For Reparations

5:16pm May 06, 2018

by Daniel A. Gross

Twice the targets of systematic racism — an "extermination order" by German colonizers, then brutal segregation by South Africa — they're still fighting to regain what they lost.

Clothes of genocide victims whose bodies were exhumed hang at the site of a recently-discovered mass grave near the capital Kigali, in Rwanda on Thursday, April 26, 2018.

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In Rwandan Mass Graves, There Are Few Ways To Identify The Dead. Clothing Is One

1:32pm May 03, 2018

by Audie Cornish

Near the capital of Rwanda, four new mass graves have been discovered with more than 2,000 bodies. Forensic anthropologist Melissa Connor says the process is particularly challenging in the country.

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Melvine Ouyo is a reproductive health nurse at Family Health Options Kenya. She visited Washington, D.C., to discuss how the clinic has lost funding because it would not agree to the terms of President Trump's executive order banning U.S. aid to any healt

Kenyan Clinic Rejects Trump Abortion Policy, Loses $2 Million In U.S. Aid

4:08pm May 02, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

The president has banned U.S. aid to any health organization in another country that performs or promotes abortion. Kenya's oldest provider of reproductive health services has already lost funding.

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Twin Suicide Bombings In Northeast Nigeria Kill At Least 28 People

1:49pm May 02, 2018

The blasts on Tuesday targeted worshippers at a mosque in the town of Mubi. No group has claimed responsibility, but the attack reportedly bears the hallmarks of Boko Haram militants.

President Donald Trump meets with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the Oval Office of the White House on April 30.

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Nigerians Praise, Pan And Poke Fun At Their President's Meeting With Trump

4:42pm May 01, 2018

by Linus Unah

Trump's reference to the killing of Christians was a particular flash point in the conversations on the street and on Twitter.

President Trump and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari hold a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday.

Trump Deflects On Remarks About African Nations; Doesn't Apologize On Immigration

8:35pm April 30, 2018

by Brian Naylor

The president and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari discussed trade and security issues — and Trump spoke of a possible meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong-un.

Rothschild's giraffe at Lake Nakuru, Great Rift Valley, Kenya. A community project at Kenya's Lake Baringo is attempting to save the subspecies.

'A Silent Extinction': Finding Peace And Saving Giraffes On A Lake In Kenya

4:39pm April 29, 2018

by Eyder Peralta

Nearly 40 percent of giraffes were wiped out in one generation. Now, Kenyan conservation efforts are helping to bring them back.