May 27, 20246:00 PM ET
NPR’s Throughline hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei speak with Tshepo Moloi and Richard Stengel about Mandela’s early involvement with the African National Congress.
May 27, 20245:06 AM ET
If you really want to know what’s going on in South Africa ahead of the election there, get in a minibus taxi, the main mode of transport in the country.
May 26, 20248:08 AM ET
Will South Africa’s African National Congress party, Africa’s oldest liberation movement, finally lose it’s absolute majority in the up and coming election?
May 25, 20245:59 PM ET
South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, face their first major electoral challenge in the election next week, and the prospect of dipping below 50% of the vote for the first time in their 30 years in power. NPR’s Africa correspondent reports from their final rally in Soweto, Johannesburg.
May 24, 20247:35 AM ET
A woman wearing a shirt of African Congress for Transformation party looks at other parties’ election posters in Sharpeville, South Africa, on March 21.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — It’s autumn in South Africa, where election season is in full swing and the streets are plastered with campaign posters of smiling politicians promising “A Job In Every Home” or to “Rescue South Africa”.
It is 30 years since the country’s first democratic elections, in which the Black majority were able to vote for the first time, ushering in anti-apartheid hero and global icon Nelson Mandela as president. It was a heady time then, at the advent of the “Rainbow Nation,” and full of optimism
Three decades later, in many ways things haveimproved. South Africa is a vibrant democracy with a free and fearless press an..
President Biden greets Kenya’s President William Ruto at the South Portico of the White House on May 22. The two leaders met with a group of tech CEOs the day before the official state visit.
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President Biden welcomed Kenya’s President William Ruto for a state visit on Thursday, a trip aimed at showing his administration wants to deepen U.S. ties with the African continent.
As part of a long list of new agreements with Kenya, Biden announced he plans to designate the country as a major non-NATO ally, which comes with some defense trade benefits.
World Haiti’s notorious gang leader, Barbecue, says his forces are ready for a long fightKenya will be the first sub-Saharan African nation to receive the designation, which recognizes the country’s contributions to counterterrorism work, and its work leading a multinational force in Haiti.
The Biden administration is backi..
May 22, 20249:38 AM ET
The ZiG is Zimbabwe’s latest currency — yet another attempt to unravel the economic catastrophes of the past decades. (Story aired on All Things Considered on May 21, 2024.)
May 22, 20245:13 AM ET
NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with William O’Neill, the United Nations independent expert on Human Rights in Haiti, about the Kenyan-led multinational force deploying to Haiti to help restore order there.
May 21, 20246:02 PM ET
The ZiG is Zimbabwe’s latest currency — yet another attempt to unravel the economic catastrophes of the past decades. According to many there, it’s every bit as baffling as its predecessors.
May 21, 20245:35 PM ET
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Cindy MCcain, executive director of the World Food Programme, about her current trip to Zambia, where people are enduring a severe drought and going hungry.