Africa

Students learn about Ebola in class at St. Claire Primary School in Kampala, Uganda. Schools will be closing early because of Ebola outbreak. Kids in Uganda have already missed two years of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Uganda ends school year early as it tries to contain growing Ebola outbreak

7:00am November 10, 2022

by Max Barnhart

Since the outbreak began in September, eight children have died — and there is no approved vaccine. But doctors are hopeful that public health measures may be enough to stop the spread.

A farmer chops down what is left of a tree in a burnt forest in Ankazobe, Madagascar, on Saturday. Parts of the forest were set on fire to make way for farming and firewood. Nearly 50 heads of states or governments will take part in climate talks in Egypt at COP27 this week.

The U.N. chief tells the climate summit: Cooperate or perish

10:56am November 07, 2022

by The Associated Press

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warning that the world is "on a highway to climate hell" and urged the two biggest polluting countries, China and the United States, to work together to avert it.

Afrigen Biologics staff members in the company's lab in Cape Town, South Africa. Afrigen is working on a project to figure out how to manufacture the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine â part of an effort to address global health inequities.

African scientists say Western aid to fight pandemic is backfiring. Here's their plan

8:05pm November 04, 2022

by Simar Bajaj

Monkeypox is the latest case of how global health inequities persist. Vaccines went to the rich world while Africa lacks access. African scientists call for a bold plan to protect against pathogens.

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South Africa's transition from coal could be a model for other countries

4:50pm November 04, 2022

by Reid Frazier

A plan for Western countries to help fund South Africa's transition from coal was difficult to reach, but parties announced an agreement Friday. It could be a model for other countries.

Redwan Hussein (seated left), representative of the Ethiopian government, and Getachew Reda (seated right), representative of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, sign a peace agreement between the two parties in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday.

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Ethiopia's truce is a step toward ending civil war, but there are reasons for caution

3:30pm November 03, 2022

by Fred Harter

The Ethiopian federal government and Tigray rebels signed a peace deal. But one major player in the conflict, Eritrea, wasn't involved in the talks.

Ethiopia and Tigray have agreed to a cessation of hostilities

5:02am November 03, 2022

After two years of catastrophic and brutal conflict, Ethiopia's warring sides have agreed to a permanent cessation of hostilities.

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Ethiopia's federal government and Tigrayan forces reach a deal

4:54pm November 02, 2022

by Kate Bartlett

A deal has been reached between Ethiopia's warring parties — the federal government and Tigrayan forces — for a permanent cessation of hostilities.

Lead negotiator for Ethiopia's government Redwan Hussein (left) shakes hands with lead Tigray negotiator Getachew Reda, as Kenya's former president, Uhuru Kenyatta looks on, after the peace talks in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday.

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The Ethiopian government and Tigray have agreed to end a 2-year war

2:18pm November 02, 2022

by The Associated Press

Ethiopia's warring sides formally agreed during talks in South Africa to a permanent cessation of hostilities in a conflict whose victims could be counted in the hundreds of thousands.

A color-enhanced micrograph of an anopheles stephens mosquito, which has been behind dramatic malaria outbreaks in urban Ethiopia during the dry season, which is highly unusual.

This urban mosquito threatens to derail the fight against malaria in Africa

4:46pm November 01, 2022

by Ari Daniel

The Anopheles stephensi is a well-known malaria mosquito, but still sort of new in Ethiopia, where it has caused dramatic, out-of-season outbreaks in ill-equipped cities, new research shows.

Cargo ships loaded with grain in the anchorage area of the southern entrance to the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul on Monday. Ships left Ukrainian ports on Monday despite Russia's decision to pull out from a landmark deal designed to ease a global food crisis.

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An intense global scramble is on to keep Ukraine grain deal alive, as Russia pulls out

2:02pm October 31, 2022

by Fatma Tanis

Countries are scrambling to salvage a deal allowing Ukraine to export grain, after Russia said it pulled out indefinitely, a decision that risks worsening global hunger.

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