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  • Global Health

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

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.

November 12, 2021
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By:
  • Joanne Lu
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 rule, has died at 85 it was announced Thursday.

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  • Africa

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

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.

November 11, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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 from wealthier nations.

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

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

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.

November 10, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Vanessa Nakate speaks during the climate strike march on October 1, 2021 in Milan, Italy.

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

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

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.

November 10, 2021
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • and 2 more
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his wife Zinash Tayachew take part in a memorial service for the victims of the Tigray conflict organized by the city administration, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Wednesday.

Tagged as: 

  • Africa

Rebels are closing in on Ethiopia's capital. Its collapse could bring regional chaos

A newly formed rebel alliance led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front is within striking distance of Addis Ababa. A failed state could displace millions of people and stoke more ethnic violence.

November 07, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman and
  • Eyder Peralta
In this photograph issued Saturday by Sierra Leone's National Disaster Management Agency, people gather around the charred oil tanker that exploded after being struck by a truck in the Wellington suburb of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Saturday.

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  • Africa

An oil tanker truck explodes in Sierra Leone, killing at least 98 and injuring dozens

The explosion took place after a bus struck the tanker near the country's capital city. Dozens were injured after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said.

November 06, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
USAID Administrator Samantha Power delivered a speech on her "new vision" for the agency on Nov. 4 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

New USAID director aims to shake up 60-year-old aid agency. Here's her 'new vision'

Like any government agency, the biggest American foreign aid group has its problems. This week, its new administrator Samantha Power outlined her solutions.

November 05, 2021
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
International visitors who fly into the U.S. will have a new set of rules and requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccines, starting Nov. 8.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

The U.S. has new COVID vaccine rules for international travelers. Here's what to know

The requirements set by the Biden administration take effect Nov. 8 and cover approved vaccines, exceptions for the unvaccinated and protocols after arrival.

November 03, 2021
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By:
  • Fran Kritz
Ethiopian army units patrol the streets of Mekele in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region in March after the city was captured during an operation against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

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  • Africa

The U.N. says all sides in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict may have committed war crimes

An investigation released a year after the start of violence over the breakaway region of Ethiopia has compiled evidence of summary executions, torture and rape.

November 03, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye speaks at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen in 2019. She and a group of Ugandan activists are calling on high-income countries to commit to bigger and faster emission cuts ahead of COP26, the climate change summit taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, this week.

Tagged as: 

  • Environment

A climate change disaster led this shy 24-year-old from Uganda into activism

When Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was a girl, a severe storm flooded her family's farm. Now she realizes that climate change was a factor — and she's become an advocate for change.

November 02, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Sudanese protesters lift national flags as they rally on 60th Street in the capital Khartoum, to denounce overnight detentions by the army of government members, on Oct. 25, 2021.

Tagged as: 

  • Africa

The coup in Sudan could threaten U.S. influence in a strategically important region

After overthrowing dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019, Sudan's joint civilian-military transitional government seemed to be stabilizing the nation. Monday's coup took American officials by surprise.

October 26, 2021
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Containers of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses, donated by the United States, arrive in Bogota, Colombia, in July. The U.S. plans to send more than a billion vaccines abroad by September 2022.

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  • Global Health

What the U.S. can — and cannot — do for vaccine equity per the State Department

The U.S. has pledged to deliver 1.1 billion doses of COVID vaccines to countries in need. Billions more are needed. NPR interviewed the State Department's global vaccine coordinator to learn more.

October 25, 2021
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Members of a team at the Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines lab in Cape Town, South Africa. The World Health Organization has enlisted the company to replicate Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

Moderna won't share its vaccine recipe. WHO has hired an African startup to crack it

It's the first step in an audacious plan to solve vaccine inequity by setting up the manufacturing of mRNA vaccines across low-resource countries,

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
President Biden told Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta that the U.S. would donate 17 million COVID vaccine doses to the African Union. The U.S. is also working to boost production on the continent.

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

The world needs more COVID vaccines, so the U.S. is helping finance overseas plants

The Biden administration has been criticized for hoarding COVID vaccines when millions of people around the world are unvaccinated. Now they're looking at how to help finance plants overseas.

October 18, 2021
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
A view of the densely populated Jalousie neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Sept. 28, 2021. A group of 17 U.S. missionaries was kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident.

Tagged as: 

  • Africa

U.S. religious group says 17 missionaries have been kidnapped in Haiti

The missionary group, which included children, were on their way home from building an orphanage, according to a message from Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries.

October 17, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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