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Kenya Faces Lawsuit From Taiwan Over Release Of Prisoners To China

6:37pm April 14, 2016

by Gregory Warner

A diplomatic tangle in East Africa underlines China's growing might on the continent. Kenya faces a lawsuit from Taiwan over the "illegal abduction" of nationals deported to China. China says it's a matter of national security.

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Field technicians at Mara Conservancy install a mobile camera unit to help nab poachers.

Stalking Poachers With High-Tech Cameras And Old-Fashioned Smarts

8:39am April 14, 2016

by Gregory Warner

Infrared thermal cameras have revolutionized the way rangers can see into the dark. But sometimes, experience trumps technology.

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Boko Haram Increasingly Uses Kidnapped Girls As Suicide Bombers

7:02am April 13, 2016

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

In the two years since Nigerian extremists kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls, thousands of other children have been taken hostage by Boko Haram. Efforts to subdue the group have failed.

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Constantin Ibanda Mola, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, wanted to immigrate to Europe. He was stopped and jailed, and now lives in Morocco, where he has been granted legal status. He says life has been difficult, but he plans to settle in the count

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Morocco, Long A Stopover For African Migrants, Becomes A Destination

6:52pm April 12, 2016

by Leila Fadel

Morocco has done something extremely rare for the Arab world — granted legal status to many African migrants. But the migrants still face discrimination and steep cultural barriers.

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UNICEF Report Finds Sharp Rise In Boko Haram's Use Of Child Bombers

5:39pm April 12, 2016

The militant group, Boko Haram, continues to heavily rely on children, especially girls, to carry out suicide bombings in northeast Nigeria and neighboring countries. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Laurent Duvillier, chief spokesman for west and central Africa for UNICEF, about the organization's report, which found the number of child bombers has risen sharply in the past year.

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Young Nigerians draw an attack scene during a therapy program at a refugee camp in Chad for people displaced by the violent conflict with Boko Haram.

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Boko Haram Increasingly Using Children In 'Suicide' Attacks, UNICEF Says

11:02am April 12, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Child "suicide bombings" by the Nigeria-based militant group have risen from four in 2014 to 44 last year, the U.N. program says. Most of the children were girls.

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U.N.-Backed Government Tries To Take Power In Libya

11:01am April 12, 2016

For the last five years, Libya has been trying to recover from its civil war. Renee Montagne talks to reporter Aidan Lewis of Reuters, who's in the capital Tripoli, about the U.N.-backed government.

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Kodjo, who's 4, was born with a cleft and doomed to be drowned — until Dr. Solomon Obiri-Yeboah, in the blue shirt, performed surgery to correct the birth defect. Also in the photo: Kodjo's guardian (in the bright patterned shirt) and Nkeiruka Obi, West

Health & Safety

When Kodjo Was Born, They Decided He Should Be Drowned

4:55pm April 11, 2016

by Vicky Hallett

The reason: He was born with a cleft, considered a curse in Ghana. His life was saved by a stroke of luck.

During a weekend run in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, Biko and his owner paused as a funeral procession passed by.

Doggone It, Why Do They Make It So Hard To Take A Pooch On A Plane?

12:59pm April 10, 2016

by Donatella Lorch

Our 94-pound Rhodesian Ridgeback has moved from the Kenya to Nepal — and now to Turkey. It was really ruff.

If Carl Manlan had $2 billion, he'd invest in building a cocoa plant in Ghana to create jobs.

A Silver Lining In The Panama Papers

11:48am April 07, 2016

by Malaka Gharib

Why Africans are breathing a quiet sigh of relief in the wake of the scandal. And one man's dream of what he would do with $2 billion. It involves cocoa.