List of Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Boko Haram’s Terrorist Behind the Curtain
Meet the man who transformed an obscure proselytizing group into the deadliest terrorist organization on earth.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Brazil the Chicago of Latin America?
We shouldn’t be surprised that Brazil — and other countries in the BRICS — is dealing with the stumbles and falls of an emerging economy. Meaningful progress takes decades.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Burundi: Sepp Blatter Tried to ‘Bribe’ Our President to Step Down
The disgraced former football chief claims he was asked to intervene in Burundi's political crisis -- and did.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Worst Dictatorship You’ve Never Heard Of
Gambia is facing its biggest protest movement in years. It will either be a breakthrough or a bloodbath.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 After Mysterious Ritual Killings, Two Zambians Burned Alive in Witch Hunt
Two Zambians were killed after a witch hunt for Rwandans accused of ritualistically killing civilians.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Un-Freedom Agenda
The rise of ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram has turned Niger from a backwater into a key U.S. counterterrorism partner. So why is it becoming more authoritarian?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Sudan: Rebel Leader Did Not Return Because He Tried to Bring Laser Missiles With Him
South Sudan's rebel leader was supposed to show up in Juba on April 18. He still isn't there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Headed to Meet Displaced People, Samantha Power’s Convoy Strikes and Kills Cameroonian Child
The American ambassador to the United Nations was traveling in a convoy that struck and killed a child in Cameroon on Monday.
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A nurse at an anti-retroviral clinic in Emmaus hospital in the town of Winterton, Kwazulu-Natal region, South Africa explains to a patient (up) how she should take anti-retroviral drugs on March 11, 2008. Emmaus hospital, nestled among the majestic Drakensberg mountains in the AIDS-stricken province is one of several rural hospitals recording astonishing successes in ARV-treatment, having already hit ambitious targets set for 2011. After the cabinet adopted on May 4, 2007 a five-year AIDS plan which aimed to halve new infections by 2011 and have 80 percent of patients on treatment, South Africa's once sluggish and embarassing AIDS response has taken new shape. AFP PHOTO / Alexander Joe (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images) Obama Dreams of an AIDS-Free Generation
But if Washington doesn’t put more money behind its ambitious rhetoric, HIV could make a major comeback. An investigation on the front line of the disease.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nelson Mandela’s Party Is Turning on Jacob Zuma
The African National Congress is realizing the only way to save itself is to ditch South Africa’s president.
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The best stories from around the world.
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Rwandan fugitive Leon Mugesera (C) is escorted handcuffed by policemen to a police vehicle on the tarmac as he arrives at Kigali International Airport late on January 24, 2012. Mugesera, a linguist who had lived in Canada since 1993, is wanted by the Rwandan authorities for alleged incitement to genocide in a speech he delivered two years before the 1994 genocide that claimed the lives of 800,000 people, mainly minority Tutsis. (Photo credit should read STEVE TERRILL/AFP/Getty Images) Rwandan Who Called Tutsis ‘Cockroaches’ in 1992 Gets Life Sentence
A man accused of encouraging the genocide in Rwanda has been sentenced to life in prison.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 America’s Biggest Challenge in Africa
Africa is now playing host to the most dynamic battles in the global war between terrorists and civilization.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: Are Journalists Checking their Privilege When Covering Refugees?
Tobias Zielony and Anna Badkhen on the displaced, the Global South, and what Africans misunderstand about their peers who’ve made it to Germany.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Migrants Can No Longer Be Considered Society’s “Fringe”
2015 Global Thinker Tobias Zielony and writer Anna Badkhen debate how the West stereotypes—to dangerous effect—the Global South.
