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An Ebola burial team dons protective clothing before collecting the body of a woman who'd died from the virus in her home in a suburb of Monrovia, Liberia's capital.

A Gang Killed A Guy With Ebola. Will They Agree To Be Quarantined?

4:45pm December 15, 2016

by Shankar Vedantam

In 2015, health workers in Liberia faced a challenge. They had to figure out how to quarantine a street gang that could be spreading Ebola at the height of the epidemic.

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Gambia's President Contests Election Results After Conceding Defeat

10:27pm December 14, 2016

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

The people voted and the incumbent lost. He conceded, but then a week later, Gambia's president changed his mind. Now he's contesting the results, and regional leaders are suggesting they may use West African military forces to make him step down.

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What Does Vaccinating Cows Have To Do With A Girl's Education?

4:41pm December 14, 2016

by Nurith Aizenman

A new study out of Kenya looks beyond the usual questions to determine the broader impact of protecting a farmer's livestock.

In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, women stand outside a U.N. Refugee Agency site in Yei, in southern South Sudan. The formerly peaceful town of Yei is now a center of the renewed civil war.

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South Sudan On Brink Of 'Rwanda-Like' Genocide, Commission Warns

1:21pm December 14, 2016

by Colin Dwyer

In a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council, commission chief Yasmin Sooka reported murder and rape on an "epic" scale. "We are running out of adjectives to describe the horror," she said.

An election billboard promoting Gambian President Yahya Jammeh as part of his election campaign is removed by supporters of president-elect Adama Barrow on Saturday in Banjul, Gambia.

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Gambian Troops Seize Election Headquarters Amid Vote Result Standoff

5:15pm December 13, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Security forces descended on the country's election commission headquarters, ratcheting up tension in the country as regional leaders arrive to try and persuade the current president to quit power.

Judge Daniela Monaco Crea reads the sentence on Tuesday in the trial against ship captain Mohammed Ali Malek and crewmate Mahmud Bikhit in the April 2015 shipwreck off Libya that killed 700 people.

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Italy Convicts 2 Men For Shipwreck That Killed Some 700 Migrants

5:11pm December 13, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

A Sicily court has convicted the ship's captain and another man over the wreck involving hundreds of migrants in April 2015. It was one of the deadliest migrant disasters in the Mediterranean.

A woman lies under a scaffolding bar Saturday after the collapse at a church in the remote southeastern city of Uyo, the capital of Nigeria's Akwa Ibom state.

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Nigeria Investigating What Caused Church Collapse That Killed Scores Of Worshippers

3:41pm December 12, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Worshippers were celebrating the ordination of a bishop on Saturday when, witnesses say, metal girders in the hastily constructed church buckled and crashed onto them. The roof then caved in.

Gambia President-elect Adama Barrow (left) speaks to members of the media on Saturday in Banjul, Gambia.

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Gambia's Opposition Calls On President To Step Down After Election Defeat

1:39pm December 12, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Gambia's longtime president initially seemed to accept the loss, but then suddenly reversed course and called for a new election. Regional leaders are also trying to persuade him to quit power.

The few African restaurants in downtown Cape Town, such as Mama Africa, cater mainly to tourists.

Apartheid Is Long Gone, But African Food Is Still Hard To Find In Cape Town

7:00am December 12, 2016

by Alan Greenblatt

South Africa's capital is now a global food hot spot. But the lack of restaurants serving traditional dishes of the continent speaks to larger concerns about what this post-apartheid society values.

AP Reporter Deported From South Sudan, A Country At Risk Of Genocide

8:53am December 11, 2016

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Justin Lynch, an Associated Press reporter who was arrested and deported from South Sudan for his reporting on human rights violations and ethnic cleansing.