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The RedFourth Chorus rocks Nairobi's streets with its songs

BBC Africa - Tue, 23/04/2019 - 11:24
Meet the choir in Nairobi promoting peace and education.
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Nine-year-old Nigerian chef: 'I want to make food for the president'

BBC Africa - Tue, 23/04/2019 - 01:48
Nine-year-old chef Sammy started cooking two years ago and now works with local orphanages in Lagos.
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Aaron Akinyemi: Could your hairstyle be causing hair loss?

BBC Africa - Tue, 23/04/2019 - 01:45
It is a topic shrouded in shame, but traction alopecia may affect one-third of women of African descent.
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Letter from Africa: The art of drawing your address in The Gambia

BBC Africa - Mon, 22/04/2019 - 10:06
With few street names in The Gambia, people have to get creative about giving directions.
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Killing of Egyptian peacekeeper in Mali ‘may constitute war crimes’ Guterres warns, urging ‘swift action’

UN News Centre - Africa - Sun, 21/04/2019 - 01:59
An improvised roadside mine which exploded hitting a UN peacekeeping convoy in Mali, killing one ‘blue helmet’ from Egypt, and wounding four others, may constitute a war crime, the UN Chief said on Saturday, as senior UN officials condemned the blast. 
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In pictures: Wearing fancy dress for big yams in Nigeria

BBC Africa - Sat, 20/04/2019 - 10:13
A festival celebrating this year’s planting season brings together thousands of people in Nigeria.
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UN condemns attack on Ebola treatment centre in DR Congo which left doctor dead, two others injured

UN News Centre - Africa - Sat, 20/04/2019 - 02:42
The UN has condemned an attack on an Ebola treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday, which led to the death of a doctor working for the World Health Organization (WHO), and injured two others. 
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More than 3,400 classrooms damaged or destroyed by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, says UN Children’s Fund

UN News Centre - Africa - Fri, 19/04/2019 - 16:50
More than 305,000 children in Mozambique are losing out on lessons at school since the devastating floods caused by Cyclone Idai, which struck southeast Africa just over a month ago. 
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Africa's week in pictures: 12-18 April 2019

BBC Africa - Fri, 19/04/2019 - 02:31
A selection of photos from across Africa and Africans elsewhere this week.
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As fighting in Libya escalates, so does number of children ‘at imminent risk of injury or death’

UN News Centre - Africa - Thu, 18/04/2019 - 23:04
In and around Tripoli, an increasing number of children are “at imminent risk of injury or death” two senior United Nations officials warned on Thursday, citing a surge of aggression in crisis-torn Libya.
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Alastair Leithead: Sudan stand-off after president ousted

BBC Africa - Thu, 18/04/2019 - 20:08
Sudanese protest groups require unity to secure civilian rule, the BBC's Alastair Leithead says.
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Service and Sacrifice: Ugandan 'Blue Helmets' support UN efforts to bring peace to Somalia

UN News Centre - Africa - Thu, 18/04/2019 - 17:53
A contingent of 530 Ugandan “Blue Helmets” (63 women, 467 men) is playing a crucial role in the United Nations’ efforts to help bring peace and stability to Somalia. They make up the United Nations Guard Unit (UNGU, that is tasked with protecting UN compounds in Mogadishu in order to assist the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) and the United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) to carry out their mandate. 
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'The doctor wrote a question mark for my child's sex'

BBC Africa - Thu, 18/04/2019 - 02:50
A child known as Baby A became the subject of a high court case that has prompted Kenya to start changing its approach to intersex children.
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Will AI kill developing world growth?

BBC Africa - Thu, 18/04/2019 - 01:08
Automation could wipe out many jobs in developing countries, says globalisation expert Ian Goldin.
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Libya: Heavy shelling and civilian deaths ‘blatant violation’ of international law - UN envoy 

UN News Centre - Africa - Wed, 17/04/2019 - 19:50
Heavy shelling overnight on Tuesday which hit a densely-populated neighbourhood of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, was condemned “in the strongest terms” by the head of the UN Mission there, after “scores” of civilians were reportedly killed and injured.
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Violence on the rise in Darfur following Sudan military takeover, but UN-AU peacekeeping mission maintains ‘robust posture’

UN News Centre - Africa - Wed, 17/04/2019 - 19:47
Security across the volatile Darfur region of Sudan has deteriorated since last week’s military takeover in Khartoum, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday, but the peacekeeping mission in Darfur has “remained vigilant” in the face of rising violence. 
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Dickens Olewe: How Facebook is being used to kill 'gangsters'

BBC Africa - Wed, 17/04/2019 - 01:46
Online groups are targeting and killing young men in Kenya they believe to be gang members.
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'How I made fathers in Senegal carry babies on their backs'

BBC Africa - Tue, 16/04/2019 - 01:27
A photographer breaks stereotypes in Senegal to show that men can be seen in public caring for their children.
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Cholera surges, children in urgent need one month after Idai slammed southern Africa: UNICEF

UN News Centre - Africa - Sun, 14/04/2019 - 03:47
One month after Cyclone Idai devastated parts of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) appealed to the international community to  help some 1.6 million children still reeling from its impact.  
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Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: Chibok parents turn to TV 'miracle' pastor

BBC Africa - Sun, 14/04/2019 - 02:01
On the fifth anniversary of the schoolgirls' kidnapping, more than 100 are still missing.
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