Managing Africa’s natural disasters takes on urgency
After the worst drought in decades, East Africa is now being pounded by heavy rains. At least 180 people have died in floods and landslides in since the rainy season...
Read moreAfter the worst drought in decades, East Africa is now being pounded by heavy rains. At least 180 people have died in floods and landslides in since the rainy season...
Read moreOn April 18, 1955, Indonesian President Sukarno took to the dais before a gathering unlike any that had ever been convened. “How terrifically dynamic is our time,” he exclaimed. “We...
Read moreM23 rebels have seized an African town crucial to the supply of minerals for smartphones. Rubaya, a key mining town for coltan in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. has been...
Read moreTourists were evacuated by air from Kenya’s Maasai Mara national reserve Wednesday after more than a dozen hotels, lodges and camps were flooded as heavy rains battered the country. Tourist...
Read moreUnited Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers....
Read moreAn aquarium in South Africa is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by...
Read moreThe voices of some 50 elderly protesters are heard echoing in song across the grounds of ‘s Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, the commercial heart of South Africa. They are demanding justice...
Read moreAn internationally backed court in the Central African Republic issued an international arrest warrant Tuesday for the country’s exiled former President François Bozizé for human rights abuses from 2009 to...
Read morePrince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will travel to Nigeria in May for meetings about the Invictus Games, the sporting event for military personnel wounded in...
Read moreThe presence of Nelson Mandela still hangs powerfully over Soweto, more than 10 years after the death of South Africa’s unifying father figure. Bus loads of visiting tourists park outside...
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