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Wrestling has been off-limits for women in Senegal. But one region is the exception

In Senegal, wrestling is a national sport. Professional wrestling draws thousands to stadiums and can be a catapult to international stardom.

A mass circumcision is marketed to tourists in a remote area of Uganda. Some are angrily objecting

A chess club for kids thrives in a Congo refugee camp. It’s about more than the game

As South Sudan’s oil revenues dwindle, even the security forces haven’t been paid in months

Sierra Leone not long ago still chained mental health patients. A transformation is underway

Mothers rely on breast milk donors for the survival of sick newborns

A community of breast milk donors has formed in Uganda after women struggled with finding ways to keep their babies with health issues alive. The nonprofit is the only group outside a hospital setting in the East African country that conserves breast milk in substantial amounts. (AP video by Patrick Onen)

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Kush, a cheap synthetic drug, is ravaging Sierra Leone’s youth

Ghana firm tackles missed business with mobile internet

One patient gives hope in hot spot for sickle cell disease in rural Uganda

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Gambia upheld a ban on female genital mutilation, but the practice continues in secrecy

Gambia has been rocked in recent months by a heated debate on female genital cutting, a centuries-old practice rooted in concepts about sexual purity and control of women.

In this Uganda region, most women report domestic violence. Signed pledges are being used to end it

A nonprofit group in rural Uganda says domestic violence is so widespread that it’s hard to find a woman who isn’t affected.

Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is ‘stunning’

A study shows that a twice-yearly shot was 100% effective in preventing new HIV infections in women in Africa.

Farmers in Africa say their soil is dying and chemical fertilizers are in part to blame

Farmers in Africa are blaming chemical fertilizers for increasingly acidic soils that have led to production decline.

Drought threatens millions of children as school dropouts rise along with hunger in southern Africa

In Zimbabwe, an El Nino-induced drought is affecting millions of people, and children are most at risk.

A ‘new era’ in malaria control has begun with a vaccination campaign for children in Ivory Coast

Health workers in Ivory Coast have begun giving children the latest malaria vaccine. It’s the beginning of a regional campaign that experts hope might curb the impact of one of Africa’s top killers.

Mind the mangroves! Some Kenyans combat the threat of logging with hidden beehives

Some conservation-minded Kenyans are trying to protect threatened mangroves from loggers by hiding beehives in them.

Kenya’s dramatic flooding sweeps away a central part of the economy: Its farms

Kenyan farmers’ financial security and optimism have been shaken by recent flooding. The government calls it “a clear manifestation of the erratic weather patterns caused by climate change.”

Grandmothers are the key to a form of mental health therapy that’s spreading across the globe

In Zimbabwe, talk therapy involving park benches and a network of grandmothers has become a saving grace for people with mental health issues.

Kenya’s urban population is growing. The need for affordable housing is, too

Kenya has an affordable housing problem. The government plans to build 250,000 houses each year, with the aim of eventually closing a housing deficit that World Bank data puts at 2 million units.

More African nations focus on HPV vaccination against cervical cancer, but hesitancy remains

African countries have some of the world’s highest rates of cervical cancer. Growing efforts to vaccinate more young girls for the human papillomavirus are challenged by the kind of vaccine hesitancy seen for some other diseases.

It was meant to be a Christian utopia. Now this Nigerian community is helpless against rising seas

Buildings have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean, an increasingly common image along the vulnerable West African coast.

Ivory Coast sets up mobile enrollment for a health coverage program criticized over glitches

Ivory Coast health authorities have launched mobile enrollment centers for the country’s universal health coverage program.

It’s hard to find treatment for snakebites in Kenya. Thousands of people are dying every year

Antivenom for snakebites can be hard to find in Kenya, where about 4,000 snakebite victims die every year.

In Burundi, shortages and power cuts slow a return from international isolation

Burundi seems to be running short of everything but patience. A deadly nationwide political crackdown in the East African nation is now in the past.

In South Africa, traditional healers join the fight against HIV. Stigma remains high in rural areas

More than 300 traditional leaders in South Africa will be trained to do HIV tests and educate their largely rural patients about the disease.

Cooking and coughing: Respiratory diseases plague Kenya as more people burn wood to save money

In Kenya’s capital, a woman cooking with firewood engulfs herself in smoke as she heats herself some tea.

Cameroon or Canada? Poorly paid doctors and nurses are choosing to leave. That’s common in Africa

Cameroon has one of the world’s lowest number of health workers per capita. About a third of trained doctors who graduated from medical school last year left the West African country.

The UN says a quarter of the world’s children under 5 have severe food poverty. Many are in Africa

A report by the U.N. children’s agency says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That’s more than a quarter of the world’s youngest children.

In Burkina Faso, a growing number of children are traumatized by war

About 2 million people have been displaced in Burkina Faso by growing violence between Islamic extremists and security forces trying to counter them.

A growing community of breast milk donors in Uganda gives mothers hope

A community of breast milk donors has formed in Uganda after women struggled with finding ways to keep their babies with health issues alive.

Uganda tackles yellow fever with new travel requirement, vaccination campaign for millions

Uganda has rolled out a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign to help safeguard its population against the mosquito-borne disease that has long posed a threat.

Extreme weather. A lack of lifesaving vaccines. Africa’s cholera crisis is worse than ever

Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement.

Companies are trying to attract more smartphone users across Africa. But there are risks

Internet-enabled phones can play a unique role in sub-Saharan Africa, where infrastructure and public services are among the world’s least developed.

Thousands replaster Mali’s Great Mosque of Djenne, which is threatened by conflict

Thousands of Malians joined the replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali.

A rural Ugandan community is a hot spot for sickle cell disease. But one patient gives hope

There can be lifelong challenges for people with sickle cell disease in rural Uganda, where it remains poorly understood.

They study next to one of Africa’s largest trash dumps. They’re planting bamboo to try to cope

Students at a school next to Kenya’s largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to purify the air with bamboo.

African farmers look to the past and the future to address climate change

From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking both to the past and future to respond to climate change.

Climate change is bringing malaria to new areas. In Africa, it never left

When cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving or migrating the threat of some diseases.

Homes are demolished in Ivory Coast’s main city over alleged health concerns. Thousands are homeless

Authorities in Ivory Coast’s largest city are demolishing homes in low-income areas over what they say are public health concerns, leaving thousands without shelter and with nowhere to go.

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