Pollution problem in Uganda leads to explosion in scavenger stork population
The Marabou stork population in Uganda is exploding. Uncollected garbage and slaughterhouse remains are just two food sources that have suddenly become more plentiful, meaning the storks are moving in...
View ArticleEthiopian veteran recalls serving alongside Americans during Korean War
Captain Mamo Habtewold is an unusual military veterna. Now 81, 60 years ago Mamo was a young officer in the Imperial Guard of Ethiopia. That was when Emperor Haile Selassie answered a call from the...
View ArticleHaiti on brink of becoming latest member of African Union
The African Union has 54 member states — all of them are located on the African continent. But as early as January, that could change. Haiti might be en route to becoming the first country to join the...
View ArticleKenya trying to wrestle with pollution damaging economically important lake
Lake Naivasha is one of the most economically important places in Kenya's Rift Valley. Its waters and shores are home to fishermen, farmers and a huge cut flower industry. The lake borders two national...
View ArticleTop suspect in Libya consulate attack still hasn't been questioned
New York Times Reporter David Kirkpatrick sat for two hours on a hotel patio with Ahmed Abu Khattala, the man that U.S. authorities and witnesses say was a ringleader of the attack on the U.S....
View ArticleLibyans wage battle over last holdout of Muammar Gaddafi supporters
Tuesday was a holiday in Libya — the first anniversary of the country’s official declaration of liberation from the regime of Col. Muammar Gaddafi. Yet the head of Libya’s Congress recently declared...
View Article'Oprah of Egypt' serves up good food, practical advice one show at a time
In a country where a large part of the population struggles to make ends meet, a working class woman has skyrocketed to fame in post-revolutionary Egypt with a new kind of cooking show. While the...
View ArticleNairobi glue pusher preys on addicted kids to help her own
In Nairobi, many street kids inhale glue for a cheap high, and many of the dealers who sell them the glue are women. They’re called Mama Pimas — and often they enter the drug trade as a way to feed her...
View ArticleIn Africa, imprisoned at the hospital until bills are paid
By Cindy Shiner/AllAfrica.com In some parts of the world, not being able to pay your medical bills can get you stuck in the hospital. Literally — prohibited from leaving until the bills are paid. I...
View ArticleNext generation of Mali musicians face a country that won't let them perform
Azawad in north Mali is the area that produced the desert swept blues of the band Tinariwen and the late Ali Farka Toure. But now all Western and non-devotional music has been outlawed in Azawad....
View ArticleSouth Africa introduces new currency design, honoring Nelson Mandela
South Africa introduced brand new banknotes Tuesday. For the first time, the country is honoring former president Nelson Mandela by putting his picture on the currency.The five new notes each have a...
View ArticleWomen in Sierra Leone face high barriers to participation in politics
In a small school in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, Rosaline Smith begins to deliver her campaign speech.There’s no electricity and the room is dark. Then the battery-operated microphone cuts out.But...
View ArticleAfter Libyan revolution, multi-cultural community torn apart
Walk though the covered alleyways of Ghadames’ old town, along the whitewash houses of mud-bricks and you find yourself in a sun drenched palm tree garden.Ghadames is nicknamed the “Pearl of the...
View ArticleChips Funga: Kenyans transform term for French fries into slang for one-night...
It’s 2 a.m. in downtown Nairobi, Kenya.Wendy Kimani is doing what a lot of young people here do around this time: standing outside a night club, holding a bag of French fries. You can see the grease...
View ArticleIn Africa, Malians forced to flee, frustrated by lack of progress
In the West African country of Mali, people are waiting for a United Nations Security Council decision on a military intervention to liberate the northern part of the country from radical Islamist...
View ArticleTourist trade dries up as Mali struggles with Islamist insurgency
Searching for a tour guide on a dusty street in Ségou, a town about 150 miles north of Mali’s capital, Bamako, is unusual these days.And hard, too.Normally, guides loiter outside hotels and...
View ArticleIncrease of French forces in Mali, hopes to end ongoing crisis
French troops engaged in their first direct combat operations in Mali on Wednesday, just days after intervening in the former French colony's struggle with Islamic militants.The conflict began last...
View ArticleMilitants in Mali take hostages in Algeria
The jihadists in the ongoing fight in northern Mali have struck outside their borders, taking hostages at a gas field in Algeria.Militants stormed an oil field in Algeria, taking multiple hostages,...
View ArticleMali's last master calligrapher escapes violence in Timbuktu with ancient...
Boubacar Sadek is believed to be the last remaining master calligrapher in Mali.He fled Timbuktu with rare documents and now makes a living in the nation's capital, Bamako, copying old manuscripts for...
View Article'Like vultures:' Press hovering around ailing Nelson Mandela, angering South...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, 94, remains hospitalized with a serious lung infection. Reports about his condition, which has deteriorated in recent days, have varied — though the...
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