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Female Suicide Bombers Sent By Boko Haram Blamed For Attack In Nigeria

6:41pm February 12, 2016

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Female suicide bombers sent by Boko Haram extremists are being blamed for killing nearly 60 people in an attack on a refuge for displaced people in northern Nigeria. The attackers appear to be from among girls Boko Haram has kidnapped in recent years.

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Doctors are about to circumcise an Indonesian baby in Bandung, Indonesia, in 2013. Indonesia authorized medical personnel to perform the procedure in 2010, then revoked the authorization in 2014.

UNICEF Estimate Of Female Genital Mutilation Up By 70 Million

4:58pm February 08, 2016

by Diane Cole

And 60 million of the cases are in Indonesia, which was added to the survey for the first time — evidence that FGM goes far beyond Africa and the Middle East.

A hole is seen in a plane operated by Daallo Airlines as it sits on a runway at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Tuesday.

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Video Seems To Show Somali Airport Workers Had Role In Plane Bombing

12:17pm February 08, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

CCTV footage seems to show airport workers handing off a suitcase to the bomber, who was the only casualty in the attack. He was sucked out of a hole in the side of the plane.

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South Africans Lacking Permanent Housing Seen As Squatters

4:37pm February 07, 2016

by Sarah Birnbaum

A post-apartheid promise that hasn't been realized was housing for all, or at least for more. Many South Africans still lack homes, with some pushed out of the temporary structures they build.

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Benjamin McCrumade, at right, gets ready for the finals.

After Ebola, Surf's Up Again In Liberia

10:29am February 06, 2016

by Ashoka Mukpo

Aid workers introduced kids to the sport. Now there's an annual competition — canceled last year because of Ebola but back in 2016.

Mapping Zika: From A Monkey In Uganda To A Growing Global Concern

1:38pm February 05, 2016

by Marc Silver

The virus was first identified in 1947 in a rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest. Our maps show how it spread slowly at first, then last year began a rapid invasion of the Americas.

The Noor I Concentrated Solar Power plant, shown on Thursday, is the first phase of a large solar thermal power plant that is intended to supply more than a million Moroccans with electricity.

Morocco Unveils A Massive Solar Power Plant In The Sahara

4:11pm February 04, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The Noor I solar thermal power plant is the first phase of a project that's projected to provide more than a million Moroccans with electricity — even once the sun has gone down.

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Libyan Journalist: People In Benghazi 'Divided' Over How To Stop ISIS

6:55pm February 03, 2016

by Tom Bowman

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Omar al-Mosmary, a Libyan journalist based in Benghazi, about how life there is impacted by the Islamic State and other violent factions. He says half the city that was controlled by al-Qaida is now controlled by Islamic State. No one lives there except for fighters and their families. The residents who were living there have crowded into the rest of town.

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'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy

1:56pm February 03, 2016

Bassem Youssef created what became the most popular TV show in Egypt's history, but the government had the show cancelled, and Youssef fled Egypt.

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Egypt's justice ministry says it will begin strictly enforcing a law requiring foreign men to pay to marry a woman 25 years younger or more. Human rights groups say the law only bolsters a business that preys on the poor and the vulnerable.

Does Egypt's Law Protect 'Short-Term Brides' Or Formalize Trafficking?

10:46am February 01, 2016

by Leila Fadel

Egypt has vowed stricter enforcement of a law requiring foreign men to pay if they marry much younger women. Activists say the country enshrines a practice that amounts to sex trafficking.

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