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The conflict between protecting crops and preserving wildlife also affects elephants

4:14pm April 24, 2023

by Nurith Aizenman

Botswana has one of the last thriving herds of elephants. But the animals are a menace to rural farmers. One nonprofit's solution: safari drives for local schoolkids. Can it work? NPR joins a trip.

Italian Defense Ministry personnel prepare to evacuate foreign nationals from the airport in Khartoum on Sunday.

As diplomats flee Sudan fighting, a former envoy says some should stay

11:57am April 24, 2023

by Jan Johnson

Who will negotiate with the warring generals, as most of the international community flees Sudan?

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Morning news brief

8:19am April 24, 2023

Diplomats are leaving embattled Sudan. Jury selection begins Monday in the 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. New NPR poll shows a lower court decision to ban an abortion pill is unpopular.

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Dozens of U.S. embassy staffers have been airlifted out of Sudan's capital

7:11am April 24, 2023

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

As Sudan enters a second week of fighting, the exodus of international diplomats from the capital continues. But what about the fate of those foreign nationals and millions of Sudanese left behind?

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Jordanians evacuated from Sudan arrive at a military airport in Amman, Jordan, Monday, April 24, 2023.

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Sudanese seek refuge from country's fighting as foreigners are being airlifted out

5:40am April 24, 2023

by The Associated Press

As foreign governments airlifted hundreds of their diplomats and other citizens from Sudan, Sudanese on Monday desperately sought ways to escape the chaos amid fears fighting will only escalate.

An aerial view of black smoke covering the sky above the capital Khartoum. Explosions and gunfire resounded in Sudan's capital on April 20, as fighting between the forces of two rival generals showed no signs of abating ahead of festivities marking the end of Ramadan.

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The U.S. military has evacuated diplomats in Sudan as fighting continues

9:08pm April 23, 2023

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

The U.S. military has evacuated American diplomats from Sudan as violence continues there, but many Americans and thousands of Sudanese are left behind.

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The U.S. has evacuated embassy staff from Sudan

5:08pm April 23, 2023

by Jackie Northam

After days of fighting in Sudan, President Biden has confirmed that all American government personnel and their families have been evacuated from the U.S. embassy in Khartoum.

Police and local residents load the exhumed bodies of victims of a religious cult into the back of a truck in the village of Shakahola, near the coastal city of Malindi, in southeastern Kenya on Sunday.

39 bodies were found in the investigation of a cult in Kenya

2:30pm April 23, 2023

by The Associated Press

The bodies were found on land owned by a pastor in coastal Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death.

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The crisis in Sudan shows no signs of abating

7:57am April 23, 2023

by Camila Domonoske

NPR's Camila Domonoske speaks about the unfolding crisis in Sudan with Murithi Mutiga, program director for Africa at the International Crisis Group.

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In this photo provided by Maheen S, smoke fills the sky in Khartoum, Sudan, near Doha International Hospital on Friday.

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The U.S. is evacuating diplomats in Sudan amid fierce fighting

9:59pm April 22, 2023

by The Associated Press

The evacuation order was believed to apply to about 70 Americans. U.S. forces were airlifting them from a landing zone at the embassy to an unspecified location.