His path went through a female-led Sufi community, studies in graphic design at a technical college, and eventually an art school diploma. A lot had changed by then. He recreated his grandmother’s living room for the graduation show; She arrived and sat there, “watching their soap” on TV under her embroidered self-portraits. The Chicago show …
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While health surveillance is weak, he acknowledged that Sierra Leoneans had the last, horrific experience of Ebola that killed 4,000 people here in 2014-16. Since then, he said, citizens have been on the alert for an infectious agent that could kill people in their communities. He said that if this were the case, they would …
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NTUZUMA, South Africa — A few months ago, a community health worker in this sprawling hillside town on the edge of Durban city, Sizakele Mathe, was informed by a clinic that a neighbor had stopped taking his medication. It was a warning sign that he had stopped taking the antiretroviral tablet that suppresses HIV infection. …
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A rapid transition is crucial in the global fight against climate change. But not only is this particularly costly in poor countries, many African countries have an abundance of natural gas or other fossil fuels, and they vehemently argue that the rest of the world has no right to tell them not to use it. …
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The last three mountain glaciers in Africa are shrinking so rapidly that they could disappear within two decades, a symbol of the wider devastation wrought by climate change on the continent. UN’s new report. While African countries contribute less than 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, Report of the World Meteorological Organization and other …
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Dr. When John Nkengasong took over as the first head of Africa’s new Centers for Disease Control in 2017, parts of the continent had just emerged from a war. devastating Ebola epidemic. Less than three years later, Covid-19 struck. Dr. Nkengasong is now working to bring together the governments of a large and diverse continent …
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Abebech Gobena spotted the woman and her baby while returning from a pilgrimage to the holy site of Gishen Mariam, about 300 miles north of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. It was 1980 and Ms. Gobena was passing through an area that had recently suffered from drought and accompanying famine. There were corpses along the way …
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KISUMU, Kenya — Troy Onyango remembers two years ago when he was completing his master’s degree in creative writing in England, complaining with his friends about how little literary publication was devoted to black writers, poets and photographers. For Onyango, “How can we find a space where we can all gather?” Said it was about. …
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