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Kenya delays closure of world’s largest refugee camp
An aerial view shows makeshift shelters at the Dagahaley camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border in Garissa County, Kenya, in 2011. Photo by Thomas Mukoya/ReutersThe Kenyan government is delaying...
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In Liberia, private management of public schools draws scrutiny
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But first: how one for-profit school model is being tested to help revitalize a school system in West Africa.Our story is in Liberia, a country founded...
View ArticleMy Mind, My Funk: Addressing Mental Illness in Kenya
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.At age 17, Sitawa Wafula was diagnosed with both epilepsy and bipolar disorder. As a young woman living a mental illness in Kenya, a country...
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Somalia’s president sworn in amid refugee crisis
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View Article#3810: World Music Tour Sampler
Sample music from several corners of the world, including Anglo-Kenyan, Anglo-Indian collaborations and an Italian band who take their own world tour through music of the Balkans, sub-Saharan Africa,...
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Group gives cash aid to rural Kenyans, then studies its effects
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioBy Sam Weber and Melanie SaltzmanWhen it comes to humanitarian aid for Africa, traditionally it has meant taxpayer-funded programs like PEPFAR or privately-funded...
View Article#3983: Music From East and Southeast Africa
Listen to music from parts of east and southeast Africa on this edition of New Sounds. Hear new music from the Zimbabwean 6-piece band Mokoomba, (which means means “deep respect for the river.”) Their...
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Kenya races toward goal of electrifying every household
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioBy Sam Weber and Melanie SaltzmanCHRISTOPHER LIVESAY: Seline Akinyi Mumbe is 49-years old and lived without electricity for her first 48 years, until she finally got...
View ArticleThe remorseful executioner.
Coming up on today's show:After an attack at a Venezuelan army base left two dead over the weekend, President Nicolás Maduro has vowed to impose the maximum punishment on the assailants. The Takeaway...
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As Kenya votes, some fear repeat of past election violence
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: A record number of Kenyans voted in their country’s general elections today.Battling it out for the presidency, the incumbent, Uhuru Kenyatta, and the...
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At least eleven people killed after Kenyan election as opposition alleges fraud
Anti riot policemen clash with protesters supporting opposition leader Raila Odinga in Mathare, in Nairobi, Kenya August 12, 2017. Photo by Thomas Mukoya/ReutersPolice have killed at least 11 people in...
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Analysis: In Kenya, uneasy stalemate follows election
Supporters of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, from the National Super Alliance coalition, protest outside the Supreme Court in Nairobi, Kenya on Aug. 18. Photo by Baz Ratner/ReutersKenyan...
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Kenya Supreme Court declares presidential election results invalid
Opposition leader Raila Odinga speaks at a news conference outside the court after President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election win was declared invalid in Nairobi, Kenya, September 1, 2017. REUTERS/Baz...
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News Wrap: Tropical Storm Lidia batters Mexico
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Protests banned in Kenya after opposition leader pulls out of presidential...
Riot policemen detain a man during clashes between supporters of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and supporters of Kenyan opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition, during a protest in...
View ArticleKenya Repeats its Election
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Kenya is holding a contentious repeat presidential election today. Incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta was originally declared the winner in...
View ArticleA Nazi Doctor's Quest for Redemption
Award-winning filmmaker and author John Heminway talks about his new book In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement. He tells the story of Dr. Anne Spoerry, a legendary French doctor who treated...
View ArticleNick Nolte's Life of Rebellion, Why We Need More Midwives, A Memoir from...
Actor Nick Nolte talks about his memoir Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines. Reporter Nina Martin, who investigated maternal care and preventable deaths for ProPublica, explains how midwives could improve...
View ArticleNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o on his Year in a Kenyan Maximum Security Prison
Writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o discusses his book Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir, written in the 1980's and not published in the U.S. until now. He gives a detailed account of his...
View ArticleLynn Nottage, Elephants and the True Cost of Desire
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage discusses her play Mlima’s Tale, along with Obie Award-winning director Jo Bonney and actor Sahr Ngaujah. Beginning in a game park in Kenya, it tells the...
View ArticleNick Nolte's Memoir of Rebellion, Can Midwives Fix Maternal Health?, How...
Actor Nick Nolte talks about his memoir Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines. Laura Zeidenstein, director of the Graduate Midwifery Program at Columbia University, and ProPublica reporter Nina Martin...
View ArticleNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o Revisits His Year in a Kenyan Prison
Writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o discusses his book Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir, written in the 1980's and not published in the U.S. until now. He gives a detailed account of his...
View Article#3983: Music From East and Southeast Africa
Listen to music from parts of east and southeast Africa on this edition of New Sounds. Hear new music from the Zimbabwean 6-piece band Mokoomba, (which means means “deep respect for the river.”) Their...
View Article#3810: World Music Tour Sampler
Sample music from several corners of the world, including Anglo-Kenyan, Anglo-Indian collaborations and an Italian band who take their own world tour through music of the Balkans, sub-Saharan Africa,...
View ArticleA Bloody Image Calls To Mind A Double Standard
On January 15, in a Nairobi hotel/office complex, al-Shabaab militants shot and killed nearly two dozen people. Later in the day, leading The New York Times' coverage of the incident was a graphic...
View ArticleClose Encounters
The Lincoln Memorial debacle showed how vulnerable the press are to a myriad of social and political forces. This week, we examine how the outrage unfolded and what role MAGA hat symbolism might have...
View ArticleJ.S. Ondara Says Hello To The 'American Dream'
J.S. Ondara is a Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter whose love for Bob Dylan spurred him to move to Minnesota from Nairobi, Kenya in 2013. Since he won a Green Card lottery that allowed the move, he...
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Wangari Maathai — Marching with Trees
The late Wangari Maathai was a biologist, environmentalist, and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She was born under British colonial occupation and schooled by Catholic missionaries....
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[Unedited] Wangari Maathai with Krista Tippett
The late Wangari Maathai was a biologist, environmentalist, and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She was born under British colonial occupation and schooled by Catholic missionaries....
View Article#3983: Music From East and Southeast Africa
Listen to music from parts of east and southeast Africa on this edition of New Sounds. Hear new music from the Zimbabwean 6-piece band Mokoomba, (which means means “deep respect for the river.”) Their...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Film Festival: 'I Am Samuel'
Director Peter Murimi discusses his documentary“I Am Samuel,” which tells the story of a queer Kenyan man who faces threats of violence and rejection by his own family due to his identity. The film...
View ArticlePutin hosts Erdoğan for trade talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi on Friday. It comes after a Russian proposal, leaked by Ukrainian intelligence,...
View ArticleOil fire in Cuba jeopardizes frail electric system
In Cuba, a fire at a key oil terminal on the coast in Matanzas is out of control, causing explosions, injuring hundreds and killing a firefighter. The implications for Cuba's electric grid are also...
View ArticleDespite Transparency, Kenya Faced A Troubled Presidential Election
On Monday, August 15th, the chair of the election commission, Wafula Chebukati, announced that Deputy President William Ruto had defeated billionaire Raila Odinga with 50.49% of the vote. But the...
View Article201- From Nashville to Nairobi: A History of County Western Music in Kenya
We trace the history of country music in Kenya, dating back to the 1920s and 30s when local populations first heard Jimmie Rodgers on early country western 78 records, to the current day, where the...
View ArticleTITLE ‘Title 42’ border restrictions set to expire
Trump's pandemic border restriction — Title 42 — is set to expire next week. Thousands of migrants have traveled to the US-Mexico border, mostly to seek asylum. And, on Wednesday, a Turkish court...
View ArticleLula consolidates support in Brazil
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appears to be consolidating support, almost a week after a mob of supporters of the previous president, Jair Bolsonaro, rampaged the seat of power in...
View ArticleNyokabi Kariuki - "Nazama" (Weekly Music Roundup)
Nyokabi Kariuki - "Nazama" (Weekly Music Roundup)Nyokabi Kariuki’s first album suggested she was mostly a sound artist, as she cut up field recordings and assembled them into an electronic soundscape...
View ArticleString Orchestra of Brooklyn Plays Nyokabi Kariũki at Roulette
String Orchestra of Brooklyn – Nyokabi Kariũki - Nepenthae – at RouletteMarch 22. 8PM. $20/$25/$30The Kenyan composer and sound artist Nyokabi Kariũki divides her time between that East African country...
View ArticleSonic Postcards and Feeling Music By Nyokabi Kariũki
Composer and sound artist Nyokabi Kariuki makes music that somehow draws on experimental electronics, contemporary classical music, pop, and sound art without settling into any one of them. She divides...
View ArticleWagner Group revolt in Russia
On Saturday, the Wagner Group took control of a major Russian city, in one of the biggest crises of President Vladimir Putin's political career. Putin's long-time henchman, Yevgeny Prigozhin,...
View ArticleUS climate envoy says talks with China will resume
Wrapping up a four-day trip to China, US climate envoy John Kerry said no new commitments on climate were made, but the world's two biggest climate polluters have agreed to work together at major...
View ArticleKenya hosts inaugural Africa Climate Summit
Heads of state, experts and climate activists from around Africa and the world arrived in Kenya’s capital Nairobi this week for the inaugural Africa Climate Summit. Climate financing and sustainable...
View ArticleCan a multinational intervention lead to peace to Haiti?
The United Nations National Security Council has approved the dispatch of a multinational armed force led by Kenya to the beleaguered nation of Haiti, to help combat violent gangs. It's the first time...
View ArticleSaltwater Wedge In The Mississippi & Kenya's Geothermal Boom
A Saltwater Wedge Is Moving Up The Mississippi RiverAs the Mississippi River drops to one of its lowest levels in recent history, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said salt water from the Gulf of...
View ArticleThe rules of war
On Tuesday, Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza City killed at least 100 people. Israel says it's in Gaza to root out Hamas fighters from underground tunnels. We hear about the...
View ArticleGaza hospitals in crisis
Over the weekend, Israeli forces carried out attacks in Gaza, targeting the Al-Shifa hospital, one of the main health care centers in the Gaza Strip. Doctors describe a chaotic situation where they are...
View ArticleIsrael-Hamas hostage negotiations continue
Over the weekend, officials from Qatar said progress had been made on a potential deal to release some of the nearly 240 hostages Hamas took captive from Israel on Oct. 7. The agreement would...
View ArticleKiano Moju's Cookbook AfriCali: Recipes from My Jikoni
In a new cookbook, food writer Kiano Moju fuses both Kenyan and Nigerian culinary traditions with Californian culture to create delicious, unique meals. She has recipes for Peri Peri Butter, Kijani...
View ArticleA Feast for Baboons
We start this story off with a question. Are human beings innately violent? Then we head to East Africa with Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, who spent his summers studying wild baboons there....
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