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Unpaid wages and deadly risk: Why health workers are threatening to abandon the Ebola response -
‘You cannot hide from a drone strike’: The terror falling from the sky in Sudan -
‘I’m a dead man walking’: The Ethiopian migrants waiting on Saudi Arabia’s death row -
Millions who rely on US-funded HIV/AIDS programs face uncertainty as financial cliff looms -
‘Leave or return in a coffin’: The threat driving migrants out of South Africa -
Protests over a US Ebola facility in Kenya highlight Africa’s growing resistance to Trump-era deals -
Ethiopia’s PM won a Nobel Peace Prize, stoked a civil war - and is set for re-election -
How bushmeat, burial rites and disinformation make the DRC an Ebola hotspot -
US funding cuts have hampered response to the deadly Ebola crisis, aid workers say -
Rebels jeered Putin’s troops out of a key African town. Now his regional grip is slipping away -
The Trump administration has gutted US aid for family planning. Here’s how it’s impacting women overseas -
Many African Catholics have greeted Leo’s first visit with joy. Others fear he’s lent legitimacy to strongman leaders
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African Voices
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Pain, stigma and barriers to care: The burden of cysts and fibroids in Africa -
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Why people can’t stop talking about Jonasi from Netflix’s ‘The Polygamist’ -
In Nigeria’s oil heartland, Olori Atuwatse III sees a different resource -
Why Isha Sesay walked away from CNN — and why it mattered to Africans -
This artist uses nails, gold, plants and flowers to capture the ‘aura of Blackness’ -
How Director Pink became Africa’s best-known female music video director -
Bone-crushing hyenas are cleaning up city streets in Ethiopia
Inside Africa
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This ‘perfect invader’ is spreading across the world. It’s costing economies billions -
Tricycle ambulances are saving lives in Ghana -
Scientists find clues that a new tectonic plate boundary is forming -
Uganda’s military chief orders shutdown of two major media outlets -
When the habitat of an endangered bat went up in smoke, this ecologist dedicated herself to ending wildfires
Connecting Africa
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Billionaire Patrice Motsepe on why Africans must invest in the continent -
The NBA’s new frontier: Franchising Africa’s basketball boom -
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Africa’s biggest airport is being built in Ethiopia for $12.5 billion
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African start-up
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This company’s edible skincare products are full of ‘raw Ghanaian goodness’ -
This Rwandan entrepreneur turns discarded tires into fashionable footwear -
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Five Americans, Ecuador intelligence chief killed in tourist helicopter crash in Kenya
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How a unique South African plant became a global tea sensation -
Six-minute ‘eclipse of the century’ is coming to the Valley of the Kings
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