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- ‘Something to tap into’: Ballet school shows Kenyans that dance is for everyoneFor former professional dancer Mike Wamaya, there’s nothing out of the ordinary about children from the Kibera settlement dancing ballet.
- In Sudan, some feel safe returning to Khartoum, seeking to rebuild their livesAbout 1.2 million war-displaced people have returned to Sudan since 2024. They're encountering infrastructure and homes that are destroyed or damaged.
- Their communities survived stigma and shame. Can they survive without USAID?On July 1, USAID was formally dissolved. In Uganda and Congo, that loss of funding has also broken apart communities that relied on it.Â
- In Darfur, Sudan, kidnapping is now a weapon of warSudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces is using kidnappings to help fund its war efforts and, in the process, unleashing terror on Darfur’s civilians.
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- Lost your USAID funding? These aid matchmakers have a solution.Project Resource Optimization is connecting formerly US-funded aid projects – including one providing clean water in Nigeria – to new donors.
- Exiled by war, Sudan’s women find freedom from female genital mutilationExiled from their country by civil war, Sudanese mothers in Egypt are refusing to subject their daughters to female genital mutilation (FGM).
- Lesotho makes Trump’s polo shirts. He could destroy their garment industry.Lesotho faces one of the highest tariff threats lodged by the Trump administration. No one in the tiny African nation can figure out why.
- Borders divided this West African community. Soccer is reuniting it.A century ago, colonial borders divided the Borgu people between Benin and Nigeria. Today, soccer is reuniting them.Â
- In Kenya, humanitarian workers ponder life after USAIDIn Kenya, American aid workers fired during the Trump administration's purge of USAID ask themselves: What comes next?Â
- In Sudan, a bride and her village celebrate love in a time of warStill recovering from the worst hunger crisis in living memory, a community in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains gathers to celebrate a marriage.
- Food rations in Africa are halved. Thousands are surviving on one meal a day.When the Trump administration slashed funding for international aid, it halved food rations for refugees in Kenya, like Ugandan Martin Komol. As funding for the U.N. World Food Program has dropped, there are limited resources to fill the gap.Â
- In Johannesburg, a library sparks hope for the city’s futureJohannesburg’s central library recently reopened after a five-year closure, a signal of the city’s revival after years of decline.
- ‘Someone is watching’: Foreign students clean up social posts amid visa crackdownsInternational students are deleting social media posts and accounts as the Trump administration tightens visa rules and expands digital surveillance. The policy is raising concerns over unfair profiling and pushing young people to self-censor online.Â
- Trump hopes to buy rare earths from Africa even as he cuts aidPresident Donald Trump has cut aid to Africa and insulted one of its elder statesmen. Will that harm his search for rare earths essential to high-tech goods?
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