Africa

Peter One blends West African nostalgia with Nashville flair in first solo album

6:17am May 31, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with musician Peter One about starting from scratch in Nashville after a successful career in Côte d'Ivoire and his first album in decades Come Back to Me.

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A man is assisted by Saudi commandos as he gets off a tugboat near Port Sudan and onto a Saudi warship that will travel across the Red Sea to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. May ‎2, ‎2023.

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People fleeing Sudan face uncertain futures in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and beyond

2:19pm May 30, 2023

by Aya Batrawy

In Port Sudan, Jeddah, Aswan and Cairo, people have sought safety from the fighting in Khartoum. After making difficult decisions and journeys, the biggest challenges for many are only beginning.

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Sudanese refugees from the Tandelti area who crossed into Chad, in Koufroun, near Echbara, gather for aid distribution.

Refugees fleeing fighting in Sudan are streaming into neighboring Chad

9:48am May 30, 2023

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

The stories of those refugees crossing the border from Sudan to Chad, tell of horror, destruction and non stop fighting, in a dreadful deja vu of Darfur's genocidal past.

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In Uganda, a new anti-gay law calls for life in prison for those who are convicted

7:29am May 30, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Richard Lusimbo, an LGBTQ activist in Uganda, where the president has signed one of the toughest any-gay laws in the world.

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Bola Tinubu, center, of the All Progressives Congress, celebrates with supporters at the party's campaign headquarters after winning the presidential elections in Abuja, Nigeria, in March.

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Nigeria swears in a new president facing profound economic and security pressures

6:08pm May 29, 2023

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

Bola Tinibu takes over as president of Africa's largest economy at a time when the country is facing unprecedented economic and security challenges.

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema speaks during their picket against Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill at the Ugandan High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa on April 4, 2023. Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad.

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A new anti-gay law in Uganda calls for life in prison for those who are convicted

6:05pm May 29, 2023

by Jackie Northam

The bill, signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni on Monday, calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality. It drew swift condemnation from rights groups around the world.

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Uganda's LGBTQ community faces harsh legislation — including the death penalty

4:29pm May 29, 2023

Uganda's president has approved some of the harshest anti LGBTQ legislation in the world, including life imprisonment and even the death penalty. What will this mean for Uganda's queer community now?

Relatives sit by a patient at a makeshift emergency room set-up by Sudanese volunteers in a school building in Omdurman, the capital's twin city, on May 27, 2023, amid ongoing fighting between the forces of two rival generals.

Doctors in Sudan recount horrors of ongoing fighting at hospitals

8:05pm May 27, 2023

by Michele Kelemen

Sudanese American doctors are sounding the alarm about the conflict in Khartoum.

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A drought triggered by climate change has led to famine in the Horn of Africa

8:17am May 27, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to aid worker Daud Jiran about a drought, linked to climate change, that has led to famine in the Horn of Africa.

A picture from May 1 shows an abandoned hospital in El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, a state in Sudan. Weeks of fierce fighting in the country have had a devastating impact on health care.

Health & Safety

Sudanese doctors should not have to risk their own lives to save lives

7:59pm May 24, 2023

The conflict has devastated health care: attacks on hospitals, threats against medical staff. Three Sudanese-American doctors share stories from their colleagues — and map out a plan for the future.