Africa

Blinken is the highest-level Biden administration official to visit Africa

8:20am November 17, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a three-nation Africa tour. His visit comes as eastern Africa is in turmoil — with civil war in Ethiopia and a military coup in Sudan.

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News brief: Pfizer booster, Democrats promote Biden's plans, Blinken's Africa trip

7:38am November 17, 2021

All vaccinated adults could soon be eligible for a Pfizer COVID-19 booster. Democrats begin a nationwide drive to try to sell President Biden's agenda. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Africa.

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A scorpion is pictured at the Scorpion Kingdom laboratory and farm in Egypt's Western Desert, near the city of Dakhla in the New Valley, in February 2021.

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3 dead, hundreds injured after storms rouse scorpions in Egypt

7:08pm November 14, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

The city of Aswan has been dealing with an influx of scorpions and snakes, thanks to a recent rash of heavy storms disturbing their hiding places.

How $6 billion from Elon Musk could feed millions on the brink of famine

8:11pm November 11, 2021

by Joanne Lu

Elon Musk reportedly made $36 billion in a single day. What if he gave a sixth of that to the World Food Programme? We ask researchers how much of a change $6 billion could bring.

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Why is Ethiopia detaining UN aid workers?

5:30pm November 11, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, on the detention of UN aid workers in Ethiopia and the political state of affairs there.

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The complicated legacy of F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era president

4:36pm November 11, 2021

by Eyder Peralta

F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era president, has died at the age of 85. De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993, but always remained a divisive figure.

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South African President Nelson Mandela, left, and Deputy President F.W. de Klerk chat on May 8, 1996, outside Parliament after the approval of South Africa's new constitution. F.W. de Klerk, who oversaw the end of South Africa's country's white minority r

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F. W. de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid president, dies at 85

7:14am November 11, 2021

by The Associated Press

De Klerk shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, and ceded the presidency to him in 1994 after Black South Africans were allowed to vote. But he's remained a controversial figure there.

Winifred Muisyo, right, and her 5-year-old daughter, Patience Kativa, watch Stanlas Kisilu, left, as he installs a TV tuner on the roof of her home. The TV is connected to a solar panel provided by d.light, a company partially funded by climate financing

This Kenyan family got solar power. High-level climate talks determine who else will

7:11pm November 10, 2021

by Lauren Sommer

Last month, the Muisyo family turned on the lights for the first time thanks to climate financing from rich countries. But the fund is falling short of its $100 billion goal to help poor countries.

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Tunisia is seeing political changes, and some fear it may be a path to dictatorship

5:49pm November 10, 2021

by Eleanor Beardsley

While most Tunisians were glad to see their president dissolve the quarrelsome, ineffective parliament and take extra powers, some worry Tunisia could be repeating a path to dictatorship.

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Vanessa Nakate speaks during the climate strike march on October 1, 2021 in Milan, Italy.

Uganda's Vanessa Nakate says COP26 sidelines nations most affected by climate change

9:12am November 10, 2021

Nakate spoke with NPR about the role gender plays in climate activism, whether the COP26 summit feels inclusive and her advice for other youth who feel they can't affect change in the climate crisis.

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