Sub-Saharan Africa reels from USAID cuts
Thousands of USAID contracts have been cut. African health leaders say the cuts aren’t surprising. But the lack of advanced warning has turned the lives of the already vulnerable upside down.
Lesotho officials shocked by Trump’s remarks that ‘nobody’ has heard of their country
Government officials in the small African country of Lesotho were shocked by President Trump’s dismissive remarks that “nobody has ever heard” of their country.
What USAID Cuts Look Like Overseas
The Trump administration is dismantling the United States Agency for International Development, USAID. They had been doing humanitarian work in more than 100 countries. We hear from NPR correspondents around the world about what the agency had been doing on the ground and what it’s elimination could mean.
Africa knew Trump’s ‘America First’ pledge meant it might be last. Then he cut aid
Many Africans were caught off guard by the abrupt halt to U.S. foreign aid, stopping money flowing for wide-ranging projects like disease response, girls’ education and free school lunches. (Image credit: Alfonso Nqunjana)
The U.S. and China Vie for Influence in Africa
Joe Biden’s first and last trip to Africa as president wrapped up in a port city in Angola. It’s the end of an 800 mile train line connecting the port to massive mineral deposits in Central Africa. The U.S. and other Western countries are raising billions to upgrade the rail line, a move that is…
D.R. Congo’s mining capital is at the heart of Biden’s bid to counter China in Africa
Kolwezi has some of the world’s largest copper and cobalt reserves and that makes it a key location at the heart of the U.S. and China’s jostle for mineral supremacy on the African continent. (Image credit: Junior Kannah)
Biden speaks of the ‘shared history’ of slavery during visit to Angola, Africa
On the first trip of his Presidency to Africa, President Biden went to the National Slavery museum to remember the hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans taken from Angola to the U.S.
50 years on, D.R. Congo commemorates boxing’s ‘Rumble in the Jungle’
The historic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman is still revered as a cherished moment in the central African country’s troubled history and has spurred an enduring love of boxing. (Image credit: -)
Peace talks in Geneva aim to end Sudan’s civil war
TK HOST talks with US Special Envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, about peace talks aimed at ending the Sudanese civil war, which has led to famine in parts of the country.
Protests against Kenya’s president have sparked a new wave of music, poetry and art
Kenya’s antigovernment protestors have a new soundtrack and words of poets to help galvanize their burgeoning movement.