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REUTERS In his poem Rough Path, Yousef Kamara reflects on his years selling drugs and stealing as the leader of a street gang in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. “Like a traveller in a rough jungle/Self propelling all alone/Edging…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Photos by AFP/GETTY IMAGES When Fredie Blom was born, the automobile was in its infancy, the first airplane was less than a year old and World War I was in the future. More than 116 years later, Blom still got…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Liberian President George Weah has released a coronavirus-themed single, using music to raise awareness about prevention measures in the West African state.  In his Let’s Stand Together and Fight Coronavirus, Weah…

VOICE OF AMERICA Nairobi’s Kariobangi neighborhood became home to a football team in 2000. Later named the Kariobangi Sharks, the team was a bright spot in an informal settlement marked by poverty, crime and crowded living conditions.…

REUTERS South Sudanese wrestler Kur Bol Jok strode into the arena, puffed out his chest and faced his opponent, bracing for the fight. Wrestling is popular in the world’s youngest nation, which has been devastated by five years of…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS In a field in central Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 36,000 people got the chance to forget fears about insecurity and enjoy some top music acts at the Amani Festival. The…