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China's BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia

A customer holds a Nollywood film in a shop at Idumota market in Lagos on February 19, 2019.

Disney partners with Nollywood to bring American movies to West Africa

Outrage as Nigeria sentences 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy

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The coronavirus pandemic

South Africa has kept its Covid-19 death toll low. Here's how
How Rwanda is successfully dealing with coronavirus
Massive funding has been donated to help fight the coronavirus in Africa. This nonprofit is trying to keep track of it
One man and his cellphone in Canada rescued a group of Africans stuck in China in the pandemic

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Female fighters

Meet eight Maasai rangers fighting poaching in Kenya

Homegrown culture

The story behind The Gambia's first cultural academy

Viral ballet star

From dancing barefoot in the streets to viral ballet star

A deadly journey

He almost died migrating to Europe. Now he is warning other Gambians about it

Comedy star

Chip-eating Kenyan comic entertaining people on social media

Preserving African languages

Creating a digital collection of African children stories in African languages

Stranded abroad

Nigerian students stranded abroad after govt. fails to pay scholarship fees

Living off grid

'Life changing' solar fridge costs $1 per day

Shifting beauty standards

How Miss Universe's historic win helped shift the status quo for beauty standards

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Community ranger Ruth Sikeita (27), from Olaisiti conducts a daily widlife patrol at the Olgulului Ololarashi Group Ranch in Kajiado, Thursday, Apr. 23, 2020. "I look after wild animals, providing security for the wildlife. Ensuring that they are safe. It's
important because animals are like us, they need to be safe like us. They benefit us,
tourists visit here because of the wild animals and we are employed," she said. Supported by IFAW, rangers like Ruth are continuing their work during the global coronavirus pandemic despite being isolated from their families. Will Swanson for IFAW.

Meet the first all-women ranger unit fighting poachers

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'Hotel Rwanda' hero charged with terror offences

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Hirsch: Colonial gaze has made us blind to the truth

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Will South Africa's WFH trend alter the office space industry for good

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Mauritius employer looks to continental Africa for growth

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures as he delivers a speech during a Presidential Youth Dialogue, a meeting with young people organised by the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) on June 19, 2019, at the South African Parliament, in Cape Town.

South African president: We're battling two pandemics

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Nigerian citizen: I prefer to die from Covid-19 than hunger

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