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<![CDATA[South Africa’s huge omicron wave appears to be subsiding just as quickly as it grew]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:44:55 EST <![CDATA[She escaped child marriage twice. Now she’s trying to save other girls from pandemic suitors.]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 05:00:38 EST <![CDATA[French strike kills top Islamic State militant in West Africa blamed for deadly attack on aid workers]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2021 07:26:41 EST <![CDATA[South Africa’s huge omicron wave appears to be subsiding just as quickly as it grew]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:44:55 EST <![CDATA[She escaped child marriage twice. Now she’s trying to save other girls from pandemic suitors.]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 05:00:38 EST <![CDATA[French strike kills top Islamic State militant in West Africa blamed for deadly attack on aid workers]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2021 07:26:41 EST <![CDATA[Three years into Sudan’s ‘endless revolution,’ hope slides toward despair]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2021 14:46:55 EST <![CDATA[Tigray rebels announce plan to withdraw from neighboring Ethiopian regions]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:35:47 EST <![CDATA[South Africa says vaccines and past infections could be reason omicron variant cases appear milder]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:25:55 EST <![CDATA[Abdelkarim Elkabli, venerated Sudanese performer, dies at 89]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:57:28 EST <![CDATA[Ethiopian refugees say they escaped ‘final stage of ethnic cleansing’ in western Tigray]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:12:38 EST <![CDATA[The race to defuse Congo’s carbon bomb]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:00:18 EST <![CDATA[Amid drought, conflict and rocketing prices, a global food crisis could be approaching, top expert warns]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:01:29 EST <![CDATA[Robert Farris Thompson, scholar of Black art across continents, dies at 88]]> Tue, 14 Dec 2021 23:08:55 EST <![CDATA[Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe covid, major South African study concludes ]]> Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:13:59 EST <![CDATA[Lawmakers in Senegal push to double prison time for same-sex relations]]> Tue, 14 Dec 2021 10:07:11 EST <![CDATA[She could have been Benin’s first female president. She was just sentenced to 20 years in prison.]]> Sat, 11 Dec 2021 04:13:23 EST <![CDATA[They fled hundreds of miles to escape war in Ethiopia. But they fear it wasn’t far enough.]]> Wed, 8 Dec 2021 05:00:45 EST <![CDATA[He lost his best friend in a mudslide. Now he’s using coconuts to fight deforestation in West Africa.]]> Fri, 3 Dec 2021 12:01:58 EST <![CDATA[Trapped by rising water]]> Fri, 3 Dec 2021 04:55:13 EST <![CDATA[Omicron coronavirus variant three times more likely to cause reinfection than delta, S. Africa study says]]> Fri, 3 Dec 2021 02:33:51 EST <![CDATA[Coronavirus cases in South Africa nearly triple in three days as fears over omicron grow]]> Thu, 2 Dec 2021 17:16:04 EST <![CDATA[The U.N. blames climate change for Madagascar’s food crisis. Scientists say it’s not the main cause.]]> Thu, 2 Dec 2021 02:38:34 EST