NPR News -Africa

April 27, 20248:00 AM ET
Enlarge this imageA photo of Ajmal Khan on his way to Western Europe to find work, taken by a travel companion and sent by Khan to his family in Afghanistan via WhatsApp. The 17-year-old drowned when crossing the Drina River near the city of Bijeljina in Bosnia-Herzegovina — part of a common route for migrants as they head toward wealthier European countries.

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A photo of Ajmal Khan on his way to Western Europe to find work, taken by a travel companion and sent by Khan to his family in Afghanistan via WhatsApp. The 17-year-old drowned when crossing the Drina River near the city of Bijeljina in Bosnia-Herzegovina — part of a common route for migrants as they head toward wealthier European countries.

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Thousands of migrants have died or gone missing in Europe — many of them in the Western Balkans. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, for example, dozens..

April 27, 20244:36 AM ET
Enlarge this imagePeople queue to cast their votes In Soweto, South Africa April 27, 1994, in the country’s first all-race elections. South Africans celebrate “Freedom Day” every April 27.

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People queue to cast their votes In Soweto, South Africa April 27, 1994, in the country’s first all-race elections. South Africans celebrate “Freedom Day” every April 27.

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27, when they remember their country’s pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the official end of the racial segregation and oppression of apartheid.
Saturday is the 30th anniversary of that momentous vote, when millions of Black South Africans, young and old, decided their own futures for the first time, a fundamental right they had been denied by a white minority government.
The first all-race election saw th..

April 26, 20244:45 PM ET

NPR’s Throughline hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei speak with professor Siddharth Kara on the fight for Congo’s resources.

April 24, 20245:50 PM ET

NPR’s Juana Summers talks with game designer Abubakar Salim about the long journey of creating a game to process the grief of losing his father to cancer.

April 23, 20247:22 AM ET

The U.K. Parliament has approved Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s controversial plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, regardless of where they’re from originally.

April 27, 20244:36 AM ET
Enlarge this imagePeople queue to cast their votes In Soweto, South Africa April 27, 1994, in the country’s first all-race elections. South Africans celebrate “Freedom Day” every April 27.

Denis Farrell/AP

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Denis Farrell/AP

People queue to cast their votes In Soweto, South Africa April 27, 1994, in the country’s first all-race elections. South Africans celebrate “Freedom Day” every April 27.

Denis Farrell/AP

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27, when they remember their country’s pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the official end of the racial segregation and oppression of apartheid.
Saturday is the 30th anniversary of that momentous vote, when millions of Black South Africans, young and old, decided their own futures for the first time, a fundamental right they had been denied by a white minority government.
The first all-race election saw th..

April 26, 20244:45 PM ET

NPR’s Throughline hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei speak with professor Siddharth Kara on the fight for Congo’s resources.

April 24, 20245:50 PM ET

NPR’s Juana Summers talks with game designer Abubakar Salim about the long journey of creating a game to process the grief of losing his father to cancer.

April 23, 20247:22 AM ET

The U.K. Parliament has approved Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s controversial plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, regardless of where they’re from originally.

April 23, 20245:13 AM ET

Gaza protests on college campuses stretch across the U.S. British lawmakers OK plan to outsource U.K.’s refugee system to Rwanda. Supreme Court to hear Starbucks case about fired pro-union workers.