A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC
More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests...
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Africa's incredible £4bn mega-dam built to transform country
A new £4 billion mega-dam is now the largest in Africa and is set to transform the country. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, formerly known as...
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How the NSA Built a Secret Surveillance Network for Ethiopia
“A warm friendship connects the Ethiopian and American people,” U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced earlier this year. “We remain...
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Greenland! Canada! The Panama Canal! The Gulf of America! Gaza!
Manifest Destiny gets a reboot under President Donald Trump.
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Beatriz Nascimento’s Histories of Afro-Brazilian Rebellion
The activist scholar devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin America but also the world.
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Mystical beliefs fuel Senegal's illegal big cat trade
The morning sun slants through the canopy of Senegal's Niokolo-Koba National Park as Sgt. Abdou Diouf and his brigade of rangers march in single...
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Encroaching desert threatens to swallow Mauritania's homes, history
For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries...
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