Researchers have identified a large network pushing pro-Russian themes and messages to French-speaking audiences around Africa, amid long-running efforts by Russia to gain influence in the region. (Image credit: Olympia de Maismont/AFP via Getty Images)
Rising insecurity and economic uncertainty in Nigeria are increasingly having an impact on retirees’ decisions not to return home to live out their twilight years in the country of their birth.
One of the world’s poorest countries, Somalia is coping with conflict, a historic drought and a devastating food crisis. But there’s another side to the country. Just take a look at the capital city. (Image credit: Luke Dray for NPR)
Young Nigerians are leaving the country in increasing numbers in search of a better life. It’s a trend that even has it’s own word — Japa — Yoruba for “to run, or escape.”
Senegal is widely seen as a peaceful and stable democracy in West Africa, but the arrest of a prominent journalist has sparked unrest and fears that government critics are being targeted.
Afrigen is the linchpin of global project to use mRNA technology to empower low-resource countries to make their own vaccines against killer diseases from TB to HIV. What will it take to succeed? (Image credit: Tommy Trenchard for NPR)
This week’s handover is Germany’s first step in fulfilling its agreement with Nigeria to release all 1,130 Benin Bronzes from German museums. (Image credit: Olamikan Gbemiga/AP)
The calls for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign follow allegations that Ramaphosa tried to conceal the theft of a huge sum of cash stuffed into couches at his farm in 2020. (Image credit: Nardus Engelbrecht/AP)
After two years of catastrophic and brutal conflict, Ethiopia’s warring sides have agreed to a permanent cessation of hostilities.
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.