The Doctors Aren't In At Kenya's Public Hospitals
The halls of the Kiambu County Hospital just outside Nairobi are empty. This is normally a bustling place but on Thursday entire wings are closed. Only in the emergency room are there a scattering of...
View ArticleKenyan Politician Proposes Women Withhold Sex Until Men Register To Vote
Kenya is gearing up for what will no doubt be a contentious presidential election this August. That means the major political parties and coalitions have begun their get-out-the-vote schemes. The...
View Article'Only God And Trump Knows' Our Fate: A Dispatch From World's Largest Refugee...
The streets of Dadaab in northern Kenya are crowded with people and cars. You find refugees selling goats and shaving ice. The biggest refugee camp in the world is basically a mega village. The mostly...
View ArticleKenyan Bus Driver Speaks Out Against Everyday Corruption On Live TV
Downtown Nairobi is a bustling scene of people darting across the road and a long line of matatus — little- and medium-sized buses — waiting for passengers. John Macharia owns two of those buses and he...
View ArticleIn Kenya, Trump Gives 'Parliament Of The Common Man' Hope
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: I love when our international correspondents just take us to places. And we're going to travel now to a small corner of Kenya where men gather...
View ArticleIn Somalia, Presidential Election Underscores Government Corruption
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Somalia, a place without much of a functioning government, has elected a new president. NPR's Eyder Peralta reports that after a process full...
View ArticleKenyan Court Rules Government Must Not Close Refugee Camp
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Like the U.S., Kenya is having a national debate over refugees. Kenya is home to the world's biggest refugee camp. It's called Dadaab. Last...
View ArticleSomalia Elects Popular And Least Corrupt Candidate As President
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: We turn now to Somalia, which has been without an effective government for nearly a quarter-century. But this past week the parliament...
View ArticleIn Kenya, Nomadic Herders And Police Clash Over Pastures
Nomadic herders are invading wildlife conservancies in Kenya's Rift Valley in search of pasture for their cattle. That's culminated in violence, as police move in to push the herders out. But some...
View ArticleAs Thousands Flee South Sudan, Ugandan Refugee Camp Becomes World's Largest
As soon as you set foot in any of the refugee camps along the South Sudan border in Uganda, a vast human suffering becomes easily apparent. We explored some of the personal stories of people fleeing...
View ArticleSomali President Offers Jihadi Group Amnesty Option For 60 Days
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: By now, you've heard about the two bombings in Egypt, which killed more than 40 people attending Palm Sunday services at two different...
View ArticleBattle Over Free Sanitary Pads Lands Ugandan Activist In Jail
Stella Nyanzi, one of Uganda's most controversial academics and activists, appeared in court Monday, after being arrested and charged Friday with cyber harassment and the misuse of a computer, for...
View ArticleU.N. Condemns 'Grotesque Rape Chants' By Burundi Youth Militia
The United Nations' top human rights official is condemning a chant by a pro-government youth militia in the small East African country of Burundi. The chant is shown in a video recorded and...
View ArticleKenyans Cheer Opening Of Mombasa-Nairobi Railway
Just after the sun rose on Wednesday, people began streaming into the Mombasa terminal station. There was a red carpet, a helicopter and Kenyans dressed in their very best attire, with shimmering...
View ArticleWhy East Africa Is Hooked On Telenovelas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oMV_eKEekQ Here's a classic scene from a telenovela. It's the funeral of a very rich man whose heirs are battling over his fortune. An indignant woman says to a female...
View ArticleI Spent 4 Days In Jail In South Sudan. I Won't Stop Reporting On The Crisis...
There is a certain peace that comes with being surrounded by a bunch of men with big guns. As much as you want to run or fight or scream, there's not much you can do — except whatever they say. On a...
View ArticleIn Rwanda, July 4 Isn't Independence Day — It's Liberation Day
Shyira is a picture-perfect Rwandan village, surrounded by luscious green mountains. No matter where you look, even at the tip of some of the highest mountains and along the precipice of the most...
View ArticleDecision Due On Whether To Lift Sanctions On Sudan
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: For two decades, the United States has imposed sanctions on the African nation of Sudan. But on Wednesday, most of those trade and financial...
View ArticleRwanda Works To Ban Sale Of Second Hand Clothes Within 2 Years
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Within two years, Rwanda is going to ban the sale of second-hand clothes. This will disproportionately affect the country's poor and puts it...
View ArticleAs The Climate Changes, Kenyan Herders Find Centuries-Old Way Of Life In Danger
Out here, in West Pokot County, Kenya, the landscape looks like Mars — red clay, rocks, and in the distance, a mountain so bare, it looks like a giant boulder. Stephen Long'uriareng, 80, has walked two...
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