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How a teen in Zambia is helping deaf students sign about climate change

‘We can’t give up on humanity’: Ghanaians fight antigay law

Sudan war’s rape survivors flout taboos to help each other recover

En garde! Fencing draws Nairobi youngsters away from guns.

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Dive into the tropical fish nursery of the future

A glassy sweeper egg, moments from hatching, is seen through a microscope at Roger Williams University’s Wet Lab in Bristol, Rhode Island, where parent offspring are bred for the New England Aquarium's aquaculture program. The round bubble is an oil droplet, which is a nutritional source similar to an egg yolk.

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Caregiving burdens fall on women. This Nigerian woman wants to change that.

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Niger is telling US troops to leave as it ushers in Russian soldiers. Here’s why.

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The ANC helped end apartheid. 30 years later, voters might end its majority.

As genocide threatens again, the world wakes up to Sudan’s civil war

Maasai women are told to stay home. These rangers fight poachers instead.

This journalist exposed corruption in the Malawian army. Now he’s on the run.

As neighboring countries fall to coups, Senegal keeps its democracy alive

A Senegalese woman wanted to farm and own land. So she launched a growing movement.

Kenya promised cops to Haiti. Its citizens didn’t like that.

Kidnapped students safe and in high spirits. But Nigeria still has an abduction problem.