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Burkinabe Architect Wins Top Prize
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Diébédo Francis Kéré of Burkina Faso has won the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize, making him the first African architect ever to win the prestigious international award.
Kéré works mostly in challenging locales using local…
CAR’s Peanut Growers Face Threats, Theft
story and photos by AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
For many peanut growers in the Paoua region of the Central African Republic, life is a daily battle. They have to coax the plants from the ground, harvest the nuts and shell them. Then they have…
Ugandan Children Return to School After Nearly 2 Years
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Uganda ended the world’s longest school closure on January 10, 2022, by ordering millions of students back to the classroom nearly two years after learning was suspended because of COVID-19.
Students returned to schools…
Old Hotel A Painful Memory of Liberia’s Past
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When it opened in 1960, the Ducor hotel in Monrovia, Liberia, was one of the only five-star hotels in Africa, boasting a nightclub and air-conditioned rooms, according to travel guides.
It hosted VIPs such as…
Congolese Children Trade Life As Miners For Chance At School
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Hundreds of children in Kipushi, a mining city in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), finally received birth certificates that allow them to attend school for free.…
Senegal’s Old Capital Makes Stand Against Rising Sea
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In the northern Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, excavators are
ripping up the beach to lay giant basalt blocks in an 11th-hour effort to keep the sea at bay. When finished, a black sea wall will stretch 3.6…