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Parents wait for news about the kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga students in Kuriga, Kaduna, Nigeria, on March 9, 2024. Nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state have been released, the state governor said Sunday, March 24, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school. Sunday Alamba/AP hide caption

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Opponents of the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) gather outside the National Assembly in Banjul, The Gambia, on March 18, 2024. Lawmakers voted to advance a highly controversial bill that would lift the ban on FGM. Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Supporters celebrate the release of Senegal's top opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his key ally Bassirou Diomaye Faye outside Sonko's home in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, March 14, 2024. Sylvain Cherkaoui/AP hide caption

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Rahima Banu had the last recorded case of naturally occurring variola major smallpox, a deadly strain of the virus, in 1975. At left: Banu in her mother's arms as a small child. At right: Banu today, close to 50 years old, lives in a small village in Bangladesh with her husband, Rafiqul Islam, and their children. Michael Schwartz/CDC, Céline Gounder/KFF Health News hide caption

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Omar Iydar, who is a Berber, and Connor Holdsworth from Scotland are experienced mountain guides working in the High Atlas region of Morocco. Brian Mann/NPR hide caption

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African sun and a howling blizzard: trekking through Morocco's High Atlas Mountains

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Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria's northwest region Thursday morning and abducted between 200 and 300 students, according to authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week. AP hide caption

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Syrian medics launched a vaccination campaign in the northwestern Idlib province in early 2023. Such campaigns depend on the global cholera vaccine stockpile, which is currently empty. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Speaker of Ghana Parliament Alban Sumana Bagbin speaks at the Parliament House in Accra, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Ghana's parliament passed a highly controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill on Wednesday that could send some people to prison for more than a decade. Misper Apawu/AP hide caption

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74-year-old Lenval Skiers at his home in Pan-African Village, in Asebu. Jude Lartey for NPR hide caption

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A new home for the African diaspora in Ghana stirs tensions

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Activists march through the Central Business District of Nairobi on Jan. 27 at a demonstration calling for government action to address the murders of young women. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Janine Kibwana, Ebola survivor and mother of five, sits in her living room in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Researchers studying the DRC's most recent Ebola outbreak say that a new vaccine can dramatically reduce the risk of dying from the disease. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Fighters ride in a vehicle moving in a military convoy accompanying the governor of Sudan's Darfur State on Aug. 30, 2023. AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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An account from the frontline of 'the largest displacement of children on the planet'

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A wooden boat was spotted at night in international waters north of Libya by Doctors Without Borders' rescue team aboard the MV Geo Barents. Valerio Muscella for NPR hide caption

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A rescue ship saved them from the sea. Now these migrants find a tough road in Europe

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Kush users in a shack at the Kingtom dumpsite in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Cheap, quick to take effect and easily accessible, kush has proved dangerously appealing to a generation of young Sierra Leoneans growing up amid widespread poverty and unemployment. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption

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A child receives a measles vaccination at a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, where a 2022 outbreak saw some 700 children die from the highly infectious childhood disease. Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP hide caption

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Nigeria's global star Burna Boy (center) is nominated in Grammy's new category "best African music performance." Nominees are from Nigeria, South Africa and Benin. Other African musicians feel neglected. Mulatu Astatke (left) is a pioneer of Ethio-jazz in Ethiopia, which has never earned a Grammy nod. North African musicians have rarely been nominated. At right: Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi. Alexis Maryon, Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Karl Lagerfeld, courtesy of the artist hide caption

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FILE - Namibia President Hage Geingob speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, on Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Namibian president has died in a hospital where he was receiving treatment, his office said Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. Peter Dejong/AP hide caption

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