Volunteers build first Ugandan airplane
KAMPALA, UGANDA — Africa is one step closer to space. Over the last few months a team of volunteers, mainly engineering students, have been building an aircraft...
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Ugandan scientists launch study on weevil-resistant sweet potatoes
NAMULONGE, Uganda — Ugandan researchers are trying to design a genetically modified sweet potato that can resist weevils, the voracious insects that are the...
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Zimbabwe’s gifted students fight for education
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Antony Mwaraswa and Julieth Gudo arrived in South Africa from Zimbabwe in 2008. They had nothing with them except hopes of a better education. Their...
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Underage Prostitutes in Mombasa Share Their Stories
MOMBASA, Kenya — When Liz finished her primary school education and found herself unable to afford tuition for secondary school, her future looked bleak. However,...
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Le « marché aux fétiches » ou la place des curiosités mystiques
LOME, Togo – Au cœur de Lomé, la capitale du Togo, dans le quartier populeux au sud-est appelé Akodessewa, se trouve un endroit incontournable pour...
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Liberian Albinos Hope to End Long Battle against Discrimination
MONROVIA, Liberia - Jeremiah Cole was born an albino, suffering from a condition that makes his skin look white and leaves him prone to sunburn because his pigmentation...
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Volunteers build first Ugandan airplane
KAMPALA, UGANDA — Africa is one step closer to space. Over the last few months a team of volunteers, mainly engineering students, have been building an aircraft called the African Skyhawk. A product of the African Space Research Program (ASRP), volunteers are hopeful the high-flying plane will give them insights into space by scanning the [...]
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Ugandan scientists launch study on weevil-resistant sweet potatoes
NAMULONGE, Uganda — Ugandan researchers are trying to design a genetically modified sweet potato that can resist weevils, the voracious insects that are the bane of potato farmers. The research is taking place at the National Crop Resource Institute (NaCRRI), in Namulonge. “For long sweet potatoes have been attacked by two types of weevils Cylas [...]
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Zimbabwe’s gifted students fight for education
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Antony Mwaraswa and Julieth Gudo arrived in South Africa from Zimbabwe in 2008. They had nothing with them except hopes of a better education. Their plan on arrival in Musina, a border town between Zimbabwe and South Africa, was a fairly simple one. They just wanted an education to help them improve [...]
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Underage Prostitutes in Mombasa Share Their Stories
MOMBASA, Kenya — When Liz finished her primary school education and found herself unable to afford tuition for secondary school, her future looked bleak. However, when her childhood friend invited her to Mombasa, with promises of a job and good life, she figured her fortunes were about to change. But the moment she landed, the [...]
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Le « marché aux fétiches » ou la place des curiosités mystiques
LOME, Togo – Au cœur de Lomé, la capitale du Togo, dans le quartier populeux au sud-est appelé Akodessewa, se trouve un endroit incontournable pour touristes et curieux, charlatans et guérisseurs, le marché aux fétiches. Un lieu où les fétiches sont des curiosités et ces curiosités des tentations de mysticisme et de sensation du surréel. [...]
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Liberian Albinos Hope to End Long Battle against Discrimination
MONROVIA, Liberia – Jeremiah Cole was born an albino, suffering from a condition that makes his skin look white and leaves him prone to sunburn because his pigmentation is very low. But the environmental impact of his albinism is only one of the challenges the 15-year-old has faced growing up albino in a black African [...]
- March 26, 2012
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Death by kidney stone: Tanzanian health care in crisis
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania– It was rush hour and thousands of city dwellers were shoving and pushing for transport back home. At public hospital, the sight greeting visitors was even more frightening. Pamela Mboya was on a stretcher, having been brought to the Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) by family members. There was a glimmer of [...]
- March 26, 2012
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Jobless Zambians steer new course as pushcart porters
LUSAKA, Zambia — After a hard day’s work, Shadrack Banda disembarks from a public bus and starts walking home. In one of his hands he is carrying a plastic bag containing a sachet of fresh milk, a loaf of bread and a packet of dry sardines, known locally as kapenta. The 23-year-old man appears to [...]
- March 26, 2012
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Dirty bags turn into jobs at Kenyan dumpsite
KOROGOCHO SLUMS, Nairobi – Kenya’s Dandora dumpsite, located close to Nairobi’s largest residential estates, has been called the biggest environmental and health threat for almost half of the city’s 3.2-million residents. But the notorious dumpsite managed by the Nairobi City Council is also a source of livelihood for thousands of its lowest-earning residents. Tonnes of [...]
- March 26, 2012
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Refugees in Uganda struggle to get education
KAMPALA, Uganda – Gevigette Chamba fled to Uganda from Congo in February with her 14-year-old daughter, who was in Grade 3. But her daughter no longer goes to school because Chamba can’t pay the school fees. Approximately 160,000 refugees from different African countries live in refugee camps in Uganda, and the number is increasing [...]
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