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President Donald Trump appears at a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump lauds Liberian president's English

Alex Galbraith
A female white rhinoceros with a six-month old baby in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve adjacent to Kruger National Park, South Africa. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dehorning rhinos — to save them

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Health workers monitor Mpox patients at the Mpox treatment centre of the Nyiragongo general reference hospital, north of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 16, 2024. (GUERCHOM NDEBO / Contributor (Getty Images))

Mpox outbreak is a health equity problem

Nicole Karlis
A registered nurse prepares to administer an intradermal monkeypox vaccine to a person at a vaccination site setup in Tropical Park by Miami-Dade County and Nomi Health on August 15, 2022 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected

Wolfgang Preiser, Cheryl Baxter, Jean Nachega - The Conversation
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Protesters wave Nigerien and Russian flags as they gather during a rally in support of Niger's junta in Niamey on July 30, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)

How Russia is winning in Africa

Mohammad Ali Salih
Baby bottle of milk (Getty Images/Catherine Delahaye)

Why is there sugar in baby formula?

Susan Goldstein - The Conversation
The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) (Getty Images/USO)

Hippos are majestic but threatened

Assaf Levy
A man stands by as a fire rages in a livestock market area in al-Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, on September 1, 2023, in the aftermath of bombardment by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). (AFP via Getty Images)

Iran, Sudan and the war we didn't notice

Mohammad Ali Salih
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Seydou Sarr in "Io Capitano" (Cohen Media Group)

Our devastating migrant reality

Gary M. Kramer
A screen grab captured from a video shared online shows Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian private security company Wagner, holding a rifle in a desert area while wearing camouflage in a video for the first time after his rebellion against the Russian administration in an unspecified location in Africa on August 21, 2023. (Wagner Account/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The downfall of France's African empire

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
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"Food insecurity and healthcare neglect"

Paulina Bleah, Danielle Macdonald, Pilar Camargo-Plazas, Rosemary Wilson - The Conversation
Rare Northern white rhinos in Laikipia Savanna (Getty Images/Manoj Shah)

Rhinos are a story of survival and hope

Assaf Levy
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President of Kenya William Ruto delivers his remarks during the Africa Climate Summit 2023 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi on September 5, 2023. (LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa wants global carbon taxes

Matthew Rozsa
People flee their neighbourhoods amid fighting between the army and paramilitaries in Khartoum on April 19, 2023, following the collapse of a 24-hour truce. (AFP via Getty Images)

Sudan: The other war from hell

Priti Gulati Cox, Stan Cox - TomDispatch.com
Cabinet of replica human fosil skulls. From a college dept of Anthropology. (kickstand via Getty Images)

New study upends human evolution history

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Cherry tomatoes in green plastic crate (Getty Images/Emilija Manevska)

Tanzania’s tomato harvest goes to waste

Evodius Waziri Rutta - The Conversation
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A female Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and her baby sitting on a tree in Gombe Stream National Park in Western Tanzania (Getty Images/guenterguni)

Did bipedalism evolve in the trees?

Troy Farah
Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

African nations tap into oil wealth

Lylla Younes - Grist
The UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 06, 2022, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Will the 'loss and damage' fund happen?

Adil Najam - The Conversation
A slice of the El Ali meteorite (Courtesy of University of Alberta Meteorite Collection)

A space rock harbors unknown minerals

Troy Farah
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The author (left) with his father and son, on a visit to his native village in Sudan, circa 2000. (Courtesy of Mohammad Ali Salih)

The British built my elementary school

Mohammad Ali Salih
(James Ransom / Food52)

The world of spirits from Africa

Shikha Kaiwar - Food52
Muse Bihi Abdi, presidential candidate for the ruling Kulmiye Party, after casting his vote during the 2017 presidential election in the self-proclaimed state of Somaliland. (AFP via Getty Images)

The right's stealth assault on Somalia

Mohamoud Gaildon
President Reagan bids farewell to President of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko as he departs concluding talks at the White House (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Africa, Ukraine and Cold War hangover

Mohammad Ali Salih
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