In Kenya, over a third of the population grow up in single parent families. #BBCAfricaEye follows the personal journey of reporter Namukabo Werungah, who has never known her father and has decided to search for this missing part of her identity. She has no idea if he is alive or dead, but with her wedding…
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https://gdb.voanews.com/a35ec037-e33a-498c-810f-15d33f283cc7_cx0_cy7_cw99_w800_h450.jpgA report by the U.N. human rights office finds systemic racism against people of African descent is deep-rooted and says urgent measures are needed to dismantle discriminatory systems. It took the death of a Black man, George Floyd, 46, at the hands of a police officer in the United States in May 2020 to draw…
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/10/02/arts/02NANCE-BOOK-LAUNCH‑1/02NANCE-BOOK-LAUNCH-1-moth.jpgMarilyn Nance was 23 when she photographed FESTAC ’77, the immense gathering of Black artists in Nigeria. In ‘Last Day in Lagos,’ she shares her archive.
At the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, African leaders called for the West to ease sanctions on Zimbabwe. Recently the United States of America sanctioned 56 companies and 85 individuals, including current President Emerson Mnangagwa. Locals in the country say the sanctions play a role in Zimbabwe’s economic development as industries have…
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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ukraine-war-arms-graffiti.jpgHow backing Kyiv can bridge the partisan divide and make U.S. foreign policy great again.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/09/22/world/00zambia-president‑1/00zambia-president-1-moth.jpgHakainde Hichilema is hailed as a miracle worker for turning around the fortunes of the southern African country. But with his opposition neutralized and a corruption drive focused on his predecessors, some are uneasy.
PARIS/BERLIN — Thirty years after the horrors of the Balkan wars laid bare Western Europe’s incapacity to deal with conflict on European soil, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating how little has changed. As Yugoslavia started to break apart in 1991, it fell to the Luxembourgish Foreign Minister Jacques Poos to make the ill-fatedly optimistic…
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This story, a look into how CNN will cover the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol under new leadership, the Las Vegas Review-Journal is demanding authorities to not review the electronic devices of slain journalist Jeff German and more, all in today’s media headlines. Top Stories Sep 23, 2022NPR’s news chief announces unexpected […]…
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As he moves on from Africa to take up his next posting in Mexico, NPR’s Eyder Peralta has one last love letter to a favorite part of Nairobi, Kenya: roadside plant nurseries.
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, much of the world mourned her passing. But the Western world, where the legacy of British colonialism stands out, mourned even more. But the reactions from the African continent are not so clear-cut. The monarchical system of Great Britain wreaked havoc on the continent – and many problems…
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