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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…

ADF STAFF United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urged warring parties across the world to lay down their weapons in support of the bigger battle against COVID-19, which he called the common enemy that is threatening all of…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Gabon banned the sale and consumption of pangolins and bats, which are suspected sources of the COVID-19 outbreak in China. Pangolins are critically endangered and have long been protected, but they are sold in…