South African Telecom App Helps Gender-Based Violence Survivors
South African police say reported annual sexual assaults have been rising since 2016 and surpassed 53,000 during 2020 lockdowns
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South African Telecom App Helps Gender-Based Violence Survivors
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South African police say reported annual sexual assaults have been rising since 2016 and hit more than 53,000 during 2020 lockdowns
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Wed, 04/14/2021 - 03:53 PM
FILE PHOTO: Vials with a sticker reading, "COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only" and a medical syringe are seen in…
Issue spotlights Johannesburg's behind-the-scenes battle to cut deals with 'difficult, unreasonable' pharmaceutical giants
Anita Powell
Wed, 04/14/2021 - 01:37 PM
Ethiopian migrants prepare to leave an IOM shelter before they were flown back to Ethiopia, in Aden, Yemen April 13, 2021…
More than 32,000 migrants, most from Ethiopia, are trapped and living under dire conditions in Yemen
Lisa Schlein
Wed, 04/14/2021 - 01:26 PM
FILE - Somalia's newly-elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo addresses lawmakers after winning the vote at the airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, February 8, 2017.
Opposition says measure is null and void
Mohammed Kahiye
Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:59 PM
Sudanese refugees children pose for photographs, in the Treguine camp, in Hadjer Hadid, in the Ouaddaï region of eastern Chad,…
Recent deadly ethnic and tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur region have forced nearly 2,000 people to flee into neighboring Chad
Lisa Schlein
Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:52 PM
A Zimbabwe health official transfers donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine from a plane from China into a government truck, at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, Feb. 15, 2021.   (Columbus Mavhunga/VOA)
China has donated 200,000 Sinopharm doses to the country
Moki Edwin Kindzeka
Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:25 PM
People walk in a courtyard in Niamey, Niger, February 16, 2016.  REUTERS/Joe Penney
A fire trapped the children in straw-hut classrooms in a school in a poor neighborhood of the west African nation's capital
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Tue, 04/13/2021 - 10:05 PM
A girl walks on a gas pipeline running through Okrika community near Nigeria's oil hub city of Port Harcourt December 4, 2012. …
Chinese and French oil companies involved in pipeline project, to be built from Uganda to Tanzania, say affected villagers are being compensated
Halima Athumani
Tue, 04/13/2021 - 04:20 PM
Internally displaced people (IDP) from Palma gather in the Pemba Sports center to receive humanitarian aid in Pemba on April 2,…
Malnutrition rates among displaced children in Cabo Delgado are alarmingly high, with at least 33,000 in need of lifesaving specialized nutritional feeding 
Lisa Schlein
Tue, 04/13/2021 - 11:40 AM
Police officers walk out of premises of the Autonomous National Electorial Commission (CENA) as counting of votes begins in…
Critics say Benin’s reputation as a stable democracy has eroded under President Patrice Talon, who is likely to be re-elected
Annika Hammerschlag
Tue, 04/13/2021 - 10:51 AM
Security guards check vehicles leaving Nigeria for Cameroon at a checkpoint border between Cameroon and Nigeria, in Mfum, in…
Markets have re-opened and border merchants say traveling near border is safer thanks to heavy presence of troops
Moki Edwin Kindzeka
Tue, 04/13/2021 - 10:22 AM
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi holds the constitution after being sworn in in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jan. 24, 2019.
New government dubbed the 'Sacred Union of the Nation' has 57 members including 14 women
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By AFP
Tue, 04/13/2021 - 07:14 AM
Benin's president Patrice Talon greets his supporters after casting his ballot at a polling station in Cotonou, Benin April 11,…
Provisional results of Benin presidential election expected Tuesday as opposition members cry foul
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Tue, 04/13/2021 - 01:15 AM
U.S. Army soldiers, assigned to the East Africa Response Force (EARF), 101st Airborne Division on a mission to bolster the…
US Defense Secretary calls for independent review of inquiry into January 2020 al-Shabab assault on Manda Bay military base
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Mon, 04/12/2021 - 09:46 PM