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Protesters wave the Amazigh (Berber) flag as they shout slogans in the northern city of al-Hoceima on Sunday after the death of Mouhcine Fikri.

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Protests, Arrests Follow The Horrifying Death Of A Moroccan Fishmonger

3:31pm November 01, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Moroccans rallied in the streets after a man was crushed to death while trying to recover his confiscated fish. His death has become a rallying cry for people who want to see justice in their country.

People listen to the radio as the results of the presidential elections are announced in Kireka, Uganda, in February. Many rural Ugandans don't have Internet access, and the radio is a central source of news — and platform for citizens' opinions.

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Turn On, Tune In, Transcribe: U.N. Develops Radio-Listening Tool

8:35pm October 31, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

In rural Uganda, "radio is everything," as one journalist puts it. So the U.N., hoping to hear more rural voices, used a tiny amount of data to build speech recognition software for new languages.

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Bomb Blasts In Nigeria Kill At Least 9

10:19am October 29, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The bombs were detonated by suspected suicide bombers linked to extremist group Boko Haram.

A man in the Congo displays two of the mammals he shot for dinner: a greater white-nosed monkey and a baby lowland gorilla.

There's Another Side To Bush Meat That Doesn't Get Much Attention

12:47pm October 27, 2016

by Erin Ross

The risk posed to mammals — and to public health — is well-documented. But for some people, bush meat is an important part of their daily diet.

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President Zuma Is In A Power Struggle With South Africa's Finance Minister

7:25am October 27, 2016

by Peter Granitz

South Africa's ruling African National Congress is fracturing over questions regarding President Jacob Zuma's leadership, and fraud charges the state has made against his finance minister.

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Gambia Says It Will Leave The 'International Caucasian Court'

11:31am October 26, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

Gambia is the third nation this month to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, accusing the tribunal of being biased against Africans.

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South Africa Withdraws From International Court; Others Follow

7:33am October 26, 2016

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

For years, African leaders have criticized the International Criminal Court in The Hague — arguing that it targets only Africans, while failing to go after other alleged global wrongdoers.

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A migrant holds onto a rope during a rescue operation some eight nautical miles off Libya's Mediterranean coastline earlier this month.

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U.N. Says 2016 Will Be Deadliest Year Ever For Migrants Crossing The Mediterranean

8:30pm October 25, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

That's despite far fewer people making the treacherous passage. The U.N. says smugglers set people off on mass embarkations on "flimsy inflatable rafts that often do not make the journey."

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Future Of International Criminal Court In Jeopardy After South Africa Withdraws

6:00pm October 25, 2016

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Harvard Law Professor Alex Whiting about the future of the International Criminal Court.

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A reconstruction of the head of Paranthropus boisei, based on a skull found at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in 1959 by Mary Leakey. Initial analysis of the skull and fossilized teeth led scientists to think this ancestor ate nuts. More advanced analysis in la

Dental Detectives: What Fossil Teeth Reveal About Ancestral Human Diets

3:03pm October 25, 2016

by Erin Ross

From the thickness of tooth enamel to the molecular signatures on a tooth left behind by foods eaten by a human, fossil teeth hold many clues to the diets of our ancestors.