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ADF STAFF When legendary Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta made his way into what is now Somalia between 1330 and 1332, he took note of the extraordinary woven cloth he found in the Horn of Africa. In those days, Somalia was a major…

VOICE OF AMERICA In Africa, hundreds of indigenous languages are on the verge of extinction. That includes at least 13 languages in Kenya. Kenyan civil society groups are proposing a bill to help preserve and safeguard these disappearing…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Talal Afifi has worked for years to revive Sudanese cinema, which languished through three decades of authoritarian rule. With the fall of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir, he sees new hope.  When Afifi attended a…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Supporters of Tunisia’s Club Africain donated more than $450,000 in one day as they battled to save the financially troubled club. The donors included one blind fan who chose to forgo the medicine he had been…

VOICE OF AMERICA Authorities in Côte d’Ivoire say they rescued 137 child trafficking victims being groomed to work on cocoa plantations or in prostitution. Police rescued the children after surrounding the eastern town of Aboisso and…

VOICE OF AMERICA During a historic visit to Washington, D.C., Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said one goal looms above all others as he leads the country’s transitional government: bringing peace to the war-ravaged nation.…